# creditNote

query · in the family [Credit note](/reference/credit-note/)

## What it does

Look up one record — a credit note — a formal “we owe you” financial document.

A CreditNote by id, within the caller's OWN org-group family; requires authentication. A cross-tenant id reads as null (not-found) AND trips the rootId tripwire server-side.

## What happens

Reads only — changes nothing.

## Who may call it

Capability area: **Reading your records** — Looking up and listing the records of your organization.

- Owner
- System Administrator
- Manager
- Associate Manager
- Sales Associate
- An API key whose scope allows `api:creditNote`

## Arguments

| Name | Type | Required | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | [ID](/types/#scalars) `ID!` | yes | The id of the record. |

## Returns

[CreditNote](/types/CreditNote/) — A CreditNote — the REDUCING corrective document for an issued, immutable Invoice: a NEW document carrying the SIGNED delta (every figure strictly NEGATIVE — the sign lives on the document), never an edit. The tax delta recomputes over the invoice line's CAPTURED components (a correction re-prices the SAME fact, not a new sourcing) — a FULL credit mirrors the original figures EXACTLY (the sign-symmetric arms). Over-credit refuses per line STRICT (taxableBase + Σ prior signed deltas ≥ 0). NO inventory movement — a goods-back is a Return. AR effects =; fiscalization seq/sig = (named deferrals).

## Example request

```graphql
query ExampleCreditNote($id: ID!) {
  creditNote(id: $id) {
    id
    sysId
    type
    caption
    status
    parentId
    rootId
    createdAt
    updatedAt
    revisionNum
    revision
    invoiceId
    orderId
    organizationId
    currency
    reason
    settlementState
    baseDeltaTotalMinor
    taxDeltaTotalMinor
    totalDeltaMinor
  }
}
```

Variables:

```json
{
  "id": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-37386ae00000"
}
```

## Example response

```json
{
  "data": {
    "creditNote": {
      "id": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-37386ae00000",
      "sysId": "CR-EXMP-0000-000F",
      "type": "CreditNote",
      "caption": "Blue jeans",
      "status": "issued",
      "parentId": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-065235280000",
      "rootId": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-a093dd800000",
      "createdAt": "2027-01-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "updatedAt": "2027-01-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "revisionNum": 1,
      "revision": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-b7960e180000",
      "invoiceId": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-504ef4ed0000",
      "orderId": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-f6d8263a0000",
      "organizationId": "01900000-0000-7000-8000-44b781470000",
      "currency": "USD",
      "reason": "Correcting a miscount.",
      "settlementState": "<settlement state>",
      "baseDeltaTotalMinor": 1,
      "taxDeltaTotalMinor": 1,
      "totalDeltaMinor": 1
    }
  },
  "extensions": {
    "at": {
      "callId": "01EXAMPLE-CALL-ID",
      "version": {
        "requested": null,
        "serviced": {
          "name": "genesis",
          "number": 0
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

## Errors this call can answer

- `VALIDATION/INVALID` — Something in the request is not valid. ([VALIDATION](/errors/VALIDATION/))
- `AUTHN/REQUIRED` — Sign in to do this. ([AUTHN](/errors/AUTHN/))
- `AUTHZ/FORBIDDEN` — Your role does not allow this action. ([AUTHZ](/errors/AUTHZ/))
- `RATE_LIMIT/THROTTLED` — Too many requests in a short time. ([RATE_LIMIT](/errors/RATE_LIMIT/))
- `NOT_FOUND/*` — That record could not be found. ([NOT_FOUND](/errors/NOT_FOUND/))