You still have to select an invoice to assign the credit note to though so it’s still a pain. The QF reference numbers are useless in this scenario. Credit notes don’t need to be assigned to a purchase invoice, just treat the account as a transactional account. Whatever it is the purchase invoice does just make the credit note do the opposite, i.e. add the credit note to the account and reduce the balance.
To add to the above, I have just added another credit note but I can’t select the invoice to credit it against as it only lists paid up invoices to credit to. If I have a credit account with a supplier I’m going to be adding credit notes for items that aren’t paid yet. Can’t really see what you’ve actually done that makes any difference or improves anything here. Credit note handling still doesn’t work.
After adding other credit notes to existing paid up invoices I’m in more of a state than I was originally. I have mentioned before (Dashboard 'Total You Owe' (QF staff keep incorrectly recategorising this as a support topic but it is a bug as I’ll explain below)) that the totals shown on the dashboard and on the invoice management page differ but also the supplier ‘account at a glance’ figure shows something else. This makes it difficult to pay suppliers at the end of each month, which figures do we use to pay the supplier from? You’d expect the “Total you Owe” to be the total you owe, not just some arbitrary figure derived from some random selection of invoices and credit notes.
To summarise, credit notes/credit accounts are still a mess and a total nightmare to deal with.