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Refund

A refund allows a merchant to send money back to the customer for a previous payment. There are restrictions to refunds:

  • the original payment must have transaction type sale or capture
  • if the payment method of the original payment is collecting, the merchants payment balance must equal or greater than the refund amount

Send a refund a request

This requires the reference of the original payment and optionally an amount if only a partial amount is to be refunded.

Example request

curl --basic --user apikey: -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{
  "reference": "I240226130441921CB87E195.Y",
  "description": "Refund of Order 123456"
}' https://api.psp.ccv.eu/api/v1/refund

Example response

{
    "originalReference": "I240226130441921CB87E195.Y",
    "lastUpdate": 1708952963599,
    "created": 1708952963599,
    "merchantOrderReference": "123456",
    "details": {},
    "amount": 9.99,
    "reference": "I240226130923535CB87E19A.Y",
    "description": "Refund of Order 123456",
    "status": "success",
    "method": "ideal",
    "type": "refund",
    "language": "eng",
    "currency": "eur"
}

Refund Limit

Refunds that require additional costs and result in a higher refund amount than the original amount are allowed. By default, a refund limit of 120% of the original amount is allowed.

In case the refund amount is too high, you receive an error message

{
    "type": "process_error",
    "message": "Refund request limit check: Original Amount: 9.99, Amount Already Refunded: 0.00, Current Refund Request: 11.99, Maximum Refundable Amount: 11.98",
    "reference": "2d951ad9",
    "failureCode": "refund_limit"
}

Refund balance

All the funds of all collecting payment methods define the merchant balance. It’s the sum of all incoming funds subtracted with all outgoing funds.

In case the refund amount is too high for the current balance, you receive an error message

{
  "type": "process_error",
  "message": "Refund request with amount 9.99 DENIED for originalReferenceId I240226130441921CB87E195.Y due to insufficient open amount",
  "reference": "5c0a0487",
  "failureCode": "unsufficient_balance",
  "balance": {
    "creditAmount": 0.35,
    "debitAmount": 1.70,
    "total": 1.35
  }
}

The typo in unsufficient_balance is real

A merchant must process more sales or contact the support helpdesk in such a scenario.