Troubleshooting
Role: Administrators · Office employees · Managers · Accountants · BookkeepersArea: Payments, Invoicing · All business types · All trades
What you're seeing
A technician takes a payment on an invoice, but the transaction shows up as a refund on the invoice instead of a payment. The amount appears to be going out rather than coming in.
Why this happens
There is 1 common reason.
Reason 1
The payment type was set to Refund.
When the payment was taken, the payment type was selected as Refund instead of the correct payment type (such as Check or Credit Card).
How to fix it
Caution: Before you start, check your payment gateway to confirm what actually happened to the transaction. Only correct the payment type in ServiceTitan if the credit card was processed and not yet settled or refunded. If a refund was already issued through the gateway, changing the payment type here will not match what happened to the money.
1Correct the payment type on the invoice
Confirm in your payment gateway that the transaction was processed and not yet settled or refunded.
Search for and go to the invoice record.
On the invoice record, click the Edit icon next to the payment.
On the Collect and Apply Payment screen that opens, select the correct Payment Type from the dropdown (for example, Check or Credit Card).
Click Save.
Note: If the refund shows as unapplied instead (not attached to the original invoice), this is a different situation. Open the original invoice to link the payment back to it, or, if the invoice has already been exported, use an adjustment invoice to line it up.
✓ Done · The transaction now shows as a payment on the invoice with the correct payment type, and the invoice balance reflects the payment.
Still not working?
Contact ServiceTitan Technical Support at go.servicetitan.com/ask with:
The customer name and invoice number
The payment amount and date
What the payment gateway shows for the transaction
Which steps from this article you already tried
Want to learn more?
Search in ServiceTitan ›
How to find records like invoices using search.
Edit or delete a refund ›
How to edit or remove a refund transaction.