Create a refund

POST / v1 / refunds

When you create a new refund, you must specify a Charge or a PaymentIntent object on which to create it.

Creating a new refund will refund a charge that has previously been created but not yet refunded. Funds will be refunded to the credit or debit card that was originally charged.

You can optionally refund only part of a charge. You can do so multiple times, until the entire charge has been refunded.

Once entirely refunded, a charge can’t be refunded again. This method will raise an error when called on an already-refunded charge, or when trying to refund more money than is left on a charge.

Parameters

• amount integer A positive integer in the smallest currency unit representing how much of this charge to refund. Can refund only up to the remaining, unrefunded amount of the charge.
• charge string The identifier of the charge to refund.
• metadata map Set of key-value pairs that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format. Individual keys can be unset by posting an empty value to them. All keys can be unset by posting an empty value to metadata.
• payment _ intent string The identifier of the PaymentIntent to refund.
• reason string String indicating the reason for the refund. If set, possible values are duplicate, fraudulent, and requested_by_customer. If you believe the charge to be fraudulent, specifying fraudulent as the reason will add the associated card and email to your block lists, and will also help us improve our fraud detection algorithms.

More parameters

• instructions _ email string
• origin enum
• refund _ application _ fee boolean Connect only
• reverse _ transfer boolean Connect only

Returns

Returns the Refund object if the refund succeeded. Raises an error if the Charge/PaymentIntent has already been refunded, or if an invalid identifier was provided.

Response

{ "id": "re_1Nispe2eZvKYlo2Cd31jOCgZ", "object": "refund", "amount": 1000, "balance_transaction": "txn_1Nispe2eZvKYlo2CYezqFhEx", "charge": "ch_1NirD82eZvKYlo2CIvbtLWuY", "created": 1692942318, "currency": "usd", "destination_details": { "card": { "reference": "123456789012", "reference_status": "available", "reference_type": "acquirer_reference_number", "type": "refund" }, "type": "card" }, "metadata": {}, "payment_intent": "pi_1GszsK2eZvKYlo2CfhZyoZLp", "reason": null, "receipt_number": null, "source_transfer_reversal": null, "status": "succeeded", "transfer_reversal": null}

Update a refund

POST / v1 / refunds /:id

Updates the refund that you specify by setting the values of the passed parameters. Any parameters that you don’t provide remain unchanged.

This request only accepts metadata as an argument.

Parameters

• metadata map Set of key-value pairs that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format. Individual keys can be unset by posting an empty value to them. All keys can be unset by posting an empty value to metadata.

Returns

Returns the refund object if the update succeeds. This call raises an error if update parameters are invalid.

Response

{ "id": "re_1Nispe2eZvKYlo2Cd31jOCgZ", "object": "refund", "amount": 1000, "balance_transaction": "txn_1Nispe2eZvKYlo2CYezqFhEx", "charge": "ch_1NirD82eZvKYlo2CIvbtLWuY", "created": 1692942318, "currency": "usd", "destination_details": { "card": { "reference": "123456789012", "reference_status": "available", "reference_type": "acquirer_reference_number", "type": "refund" }, "type": "card" }, "metadata": { "order_id": "6735" }, "payment_intent": "pi_1GszsK2eZvKYlo2CfhZyoZLp", "reason": null, "receipt_number": null, "source_transfer_reversal": null, "status": "succeeded", "transfer_reversal": null}

Retrieve a refund

GET / v1 / refunds /:id

Retrieves the details of an existing refund.

Parameters

No parameters.

Returns

Returns a refund if you provide a valid ID. Raises an error otherwise.

Response

{ "id": "re_1Nispe2eZvKYlo2Cd31jOCgZ", "object": "refund", "amount": 1000, "balance_transaction": "txn_1Nispe2eZvKYlo2CYezqFhEx", "charge": "ch_1NirD82eZvKYlo2CIvbtLWuY", "created": 1692942318, "currency": "usd", "destination_details": { "card": { "reference": "123456789012", "reference_status": "available", "reference_type": "acquirer_reference_number", "type": "refund" }, "type": "card" }, "metadata": {}, "payment_intent": "pi_1GszsK2eZvKYlo2CfhZyoZLp", "reason": null, "receipt_number": null, "source_transfer_reversal": null, "status": "succeeded", "transfer_reversal": null}