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Cancel goods receipt

This action requires the "cancel goods receipt" permission.

Goods receipt cannot be deleted directly, due to the stock transactions that are connected to them. Instead, they can be "canceled". 

When canceling a goods receipt, make sure that it is the receipt is not followed by any transfers within the same lot. Trying to cancel a goods receipt with goods transfers after it will result in an error being shown.

If goods transfers exist after the goods receipt, all transfers must be canceled, in reverse order of when they were created.

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To perform the cancellation of the goods receipt, go to its details page and open the "Danger zone" section. Here, users with the "cancel" permissions will see a button, labeled as "Cancel". Click and confirm the button to cancel the goods receipt. This will rollback any changes to the stock, done by the goods receipt, as well as delete any stock transactions, tied to this goods receipt.

 After the process is finished, the status of the goods receipt will then be updated to "Canceled".

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