Credit notes

Hi,

There was no zip in your message so I'm not sure what you did.
However, I looked into it today and I've added a new setting to be able to specify a credit note number format in the plugin. I've just published a new version :
www.hikashop.com/marketplace/product/18-plugin-pdf.html

Hello,

About the numbering, the fix in 4.0.4 only takes effect for orders refunded AFTER the update was installed. The credit-note number was already saved on the orders you had refunded before the update, so reprinting those still shows the previous (duplicate) value. To verify the fix is doing its job, please refund a brand-new test order and check its credit-note number against another fresh test refund: they should now be different and increment. For your already-refunded orders, the simplest cleanup is to set them back to a non-refunded status, save, then back to "Refunded". That re-triggers the credit-note number allocation and stores a fresh, unique number on each one.

Now to your other question: version 4.0.5 of the plugin is published. It adds the original invoice reference on credit notes with each credit note now showing the number and issue date of the invoice it relates to, both on the printed PDF (under the credit-note title) and inside the Factur-X and UBL XML files (in the standard "Billing reference" / "Invoice referenced document" fields used by accounting software).

Please update the plugin from your Joomla update manager, then run the small refund test above to confirm the numbering and to see the new reference line.

Hello,

Yes, "S26 - 0001" is achievable. Use this format string in the "Credit note number format" field of the plugin parameters:

S{date format='y'} - {id size='4'}

Breakdown:

- S, the literal letter S.
- {date format='y'}, the current year as 2 digits (so "26" in 2026, "27" in 2027, and so on). If you prefer the full 4-digit year, use {date format='Y'}.
- The literal characters " - " in between (a space, dash, space).
- {id size='4'}, the credit-note counter padded to 4 digits ("0001", "0002", ..., "0010", ..., "9999").

Available tokens for this field, for reference:

- {id}, the credit-note number (no padding).
- {id size='N'}, same number padded with leading zeros to N digits, replace N with the width you want.
- {date format='X'}, the date when the credit note was generated, with X being any PHP date format (Y for full year, y for 2-digit year, m for month, d for day, etc.).
- {automatic_code}, an alphanumeric code derived from the counter.
- {user xxx}, a value from the customer's user record (replace xxx with a field name).

One thing to keep in mind: the {id} counter is shared across all credit notes globally and never resets. So if you start with this new format after already having issued, say, 12 credit notes, the next one will be "S26 - 0013", not "S26 - 0001". If you need a counter that restarts every year, please let us know, that would be a separate feature.

Hi,

I've published a new version of the plugin with a setting for the reset.

Regarding the logo, it's already in place in the plugin. You just have to configure a logo in the HikaShop configuration page and it will be used by the plugin.