# Return

The `Return` family — 8 operations.

A return is a customer bringing goods back against a sale — the goods-back document, distinct from a return to supplier and from a credit note, which corrects a bill rather than taking goods back. It names the order (and optionally its invoice), the store or warehouse receiving the goods, and the order lines and whole-unit quantities coming back; while it is still requested you can change the lines, and after approval the request is fixed. Approve it, then receive the goods line by line with a disposition for each — back to stock, held for inspection, damaged, or scrapped as a write-off — and the refund owed is worked out from what the customer actually paid; then record how the money goes back (the original card, cash from the open drawer, or store credit) and close it. Reject a request that does not qualify, or cancel one before the goods arrive; a rejected or cancelled return leaves the listings and a fresh request is a new return.

## Operations

| Operation | Kind | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [approveReturn](/reference/return/approveReturn/) | mutation | Approve a customer return — your sign-off moves it forward. |
| [cancelReturn](/reference/return/cancelReturn/) | mutation | Cancel a customer return. |
| [closeReturn](/reference/return/closeReturn/) | mutation | Close a customer return — finish it. |
| [createReturn](/reference/return/createReturn/) | mutation | Create a new customer return at your organization. |
| [rejectReturn](/reference/return/rejectReturn/) | mutation | Reject a customer return — send it back or stop it. |
| [return](/reference/return/return/) | query | Look up one record — a customer return. |
| [returns](/reference/return/returns/) | query | The return list — each entry is a customer return. |
| [updateReturn](/reference/return/updateReturn/) | mutation | Edit a customer return — change its details. |