# Record Payment or Refund From a Supplier

### How to Record Payment or Refund From a Supplier in Muhasib ERP

### Overview

This guide will help you record money received from a supplier against an approved debit, return, or overpayment.

Muhasib records incoming money and reduces the supplier debit or updates the supplier balance.

### Who can do this

You need access to Supplier refund/payment-from-supplier plus supplier and receiving-account.

### Before you start

Confirm supplier, amount, date, method, receiving account, reference, source debit/return, and approval.

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Back Office → Purchases &amp; Suppliers → supplier payment/refund workflow; check the transaction direction shown by the form.

### Record Payment or Refund From a Supplier

#### Step 1: Start the supplier receipt/refund transaction

#### Step 2: Confirm the form represents money coming from the supplier

#### Step 3: Select supplier, date, method, receiving account, amount, and reference

#### Step 4: Link eligible debit/return transactions where supported

Link allowed debit/return transactions where supported.

#### Step 5: Review direction and totals carefully

#### Step 6: Save once and retain receipt evidence

### Check your work

Compare and Confirm bank/cash receipt, supplier ledger, source return/debit, allocation, and general ledger.

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- Stop if the form indicates a payment to the supplier instead.
- Search by reference before retrying.

### Related guides

- [Add Supplier Debit](https://docs.muhasiberp.com/link/387)
- [Return a Purchase](https://docs.muhasiberp.com/link/384)
- [Allocate or Update Supplier Payment Transactions](https://docs.muhasiberp.com/link/389)

### What to do next

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