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title: "How to Understand Void Vs Reversal Vs Return Quickly"
description: "Most developers confused with three key words mostly used in Credit cards domain like Void, Return and Reversals"
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date: 2017-02-17
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# How to Understand Void Vs Reversal Vs Return Quickly

The below are the best expalined terms on Void, Return and Reversals in [credit card](https://srinimf.com/2019/12/15/5-tricky-credit-card-transactions/)s domain.

**What’s the difference between Reversal, Refund/Credit and a Void?**

If your customer changes their mind on a product/service that same day and you hadn’t settled or batched your terminal yet, you would want to do a **REVERSAL**.

If it was after you settled or batched you would do a **REFUND**.

At the end of the day, you print a detail report and see that there is an error with a transaction, or you decide you don’t want to process that particular transaction; you then would also do a REVERSAL which is the same thing as a VOID to remove that transaction before you settled or batched.

Technically, after the required update to your terminal is completed, REVERSALS and **VOIDS** will do the same thing. Ref :[Here](http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/creditcard.asp)

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