Answers.Body: <p>From a clarity/clean audit trail perspective, I think I would go with adding a negative contribution to reverse/adjust the previously batched contribution, including a note in the adjustment contribution record.  Some of our clients create batches just for adjustments to track them separately.  Especially if it's been exported to another system, I would think changing that exported record might introduce errors or at least confusion into the situation.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I had a situation come up in which a contribution in a closed and exported batch had to be changed. I ended up deleting that batch and assigning the contributions to a new batch. Is there another way I should have handled this? Is there a way to issue a credit memo (essentially reverse) for an existing contribution?</p>
  
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Title: Editing contributions in closed batches
ThreadText: # Editing contributions in closed batches
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-02-01)
  
  I had a situation come up in which a contribution in a closed and exported batch had to be changed. I ended up deleting that batch and assigning the contributions to a new batch. Is there another way I should have handled this? Is there a way to issue a credit memo (essentially reverse) for an existing contribution?
  
  **Tags:** civicontribute, batches
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-02-02. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  From a clarity/clean audit trail perspective, I think I would go with adding a negative contribution to reverse/adjust the previously batched contribution, including a note in the adjustment contribution record. Some of our clients create batches just for adjustments to track them separately. Especially if it's been exported to another system, I would think changing that exported record might introduce errors or at least confusion into the situation.
  
  
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