Refunds a payment.
POST
/v2/refunds
Refunds a payment.
You can refund the entire payment amount or a portion of it. You can use this endpoint to refund a card payment or record a refund of a cash or external payment. For more information, see Refund Payment.
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A unique string that identifies this RefundPayment
request. The key can be any valid string but must be unique for every RefundPayment
request.
Keys are limited to a max of 45 characters - however, the number of allowed characters might be less than 45, if multi-byte characters are used.
For more information, see Idempotency.
The amount of money to refund.
This amount cannot be more than the total_money
value of the payment minus the total amount of all previously completed refunds for this payment.
This amount must be specified in the smallest denomination of the applicable currency (for example, US dollar amounts are specified in cents). For more information, see Working with Monetary Amounts.
The currency code must match the currency associated with the business that is charging the card.
The amount of money the developer contributes to help cover the refunded amount. This amount is specified in the smallest denomination of the applicable currency (for example, US dollar amounts are specified in cents).
The value cannot be more than the amount_money
.
You can specify this parameter in a refund request only if the same parameter was also included when taking the payment. This is part of the application fee scenario the API supports. For more information, see Take Payments and Collect Fees.
To set this field, PAYMENTS_WRITE_ADDITIONAL_RECIPIENTS
OAuth permission is required. For more information, see Permissions.
The unique ID of the payment being refunded. Required when unlinked=false, otherwise must not be set.
The ID indicating where funds will be refunded to, if this is an unlinked refund. This can be any of the following: A token generated by Web Payments SDK; a card-on-file identifier. Required for requests specifying unlinked=true. Otherwise, if included when unlinked=false
, will throw an error.
Indicates that the refund is not linked to a Square payment. If set to true, destination_id
and location_id
must be supplied while payment_id
must not be provided.
The location ID associated with the unlinked refund. Required for requests specifying unlinked=true
. Otherwise, if included when unlinked=false
, will throw an error.
The Customer ID of the customer associated with the refund. This is required if the destination_id
refers to a card on file created using the Cards API. Only allowed when unlinked=true
.
Used for optimistic concurrency. This opaque token identifies the current Payment
version that the caller expects. If the server has a different version of the Payment, the update fails and a response with a VERSION_MISMATCH error is returned. If the versions match, or the field is not provided, the refund proceeds as normal.
An optional TeamMember ID to associate with this refund.