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Reverse a Wrongly Posted Payment in Business Central (Open or Closed Month)

A customer or vendor payment was posted wrongly in Business Central: wrong amount, wrong bank, posted twice, or it never happened at all. Now you need to undo it without messing up the vendor balance, the bank reconciliation, or a month that Finance has already closed. Quick answer Payment's month still open → Reverse Transaction from General Ledger Entries. BC reverses everything on the original date. (Method 1) Payment's month already closed → post a reversal journal dated in the current month, then apply it to the original payment. (Method 2) Either way: unapply the payment from its invoice first, and clear the two bank entries in your next bank reconciliation. First, do you really need to reverse? Reversing is for a payment that is wrong as a whole. Smaller mistakes have a cleaner fix: What's wrong Best fix Only the dimension (e.g. wrong department) Correct Dimensions on General Ledger Entries. Nothing is reversed. Wrong vendor or customer...