Overview

Use the Refund Order endpoint to send a refund to the card that was processed during the initial transaction. It is important to note that a refund cannot be processed until after funds have settled, which is different than how a Void is treated.

API Request

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Limits on Payment Links

PayLink is different than Expedited Guest Checkout or The Skipify Button in that it accepts payments from both registered Skipify users as well as guests. For guest payments, Skipify does not store customer data, so it is not always possible for Skipify to process order captures, voids or refunds for those orders via the Skipify API.

However, the payment gateway responses are shared with you after order completion so that you can contact the gateway directly to process your any voids, captures or refunds. The payment processor gateway response is provided through Skipify's webhooks. Simply subscribe to the ORDER_PAYMENT_SUCCEEDED or the ORDER_PAYMENT_FAILED webhooks; data received via these webhooks include a gatewayTransactionId that you can reference to communicate with your payment processor.

Alternatively, you can retrieve order details using the Skipify orderId (using the GET endpoint), available in the request bodies from the ORDER_PAYMENT_SUCCEEDED and the ORDER_PAYMENT_FAILED webhooks.

Note that Order details only include lists of gateway transactions processed for the order through Skipify. Currently, Skipify guest payments processed via Express can be captured or voided using Skipify's API, but Express refunds & RAFT captures, voids, and refunds for unrecognized users cannot currently be processed using Skipify's API.

Because of these limitations on guest/unregistered customers, we recommend that you do not use Skipify's endpoints for capture, refund and void for your PayLink integration, and instead utilize the webhook structure described above.

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The request body has a RefundAmount field. If this field is not passed with a value, the API will refund the total of the order. However, if you specify a RefundAmount then that is the amount that will be refunded. As an example:

An order of $100 has settled. You initiate this API call with the RefundAmount field of $10. This will create a refund of $10, which is how much will be refunded.

To Refund an order, send an API call to:

POST {{baseUrl}}/orders/{{orderId}}/refund

{
  "refundAmount": 1523 // Represents $15.23
}

API Response:

{
  "refundTransactionId": "1115245",
  "status": "Success", 
  "errorCode": null,
  "transactionIds": [ 
    "1115245",
  ],
  "gatewayResponse": "string"
}

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API Reference

Our API Reference contains additional details about this endpoint and its use.