PayPal Refund

Refunds a captured payment by ID.

• For a full refund, include an empty payload in the JSON request body

• For a partial refund, include an amount object in the JSON request body

A valid JWT Token is required to make the API call.

Required fields

There are no required fields for the Refund API.

Optional fields

• reason - The reason for the refund. Appears in both the payer's transaction history and the emails that the payer receives.

• amount - The amount object tells the amount to refund. If not provided, whole amount will be refunded.

• amount.value - Amount to refund. Always expects integer (112 will be 1.12 for USD/ EUR. For most currencies, 1000 is equal to 10; it depends on the number of digits after the decimal separator. You can see the list of all currencies here).

• amount.currencyCode - Currency code (ISO-4217)

Refunding a payment

Here is an example request that can be used for refunding a transaction payment:

• POST /transactions/{id}/refund

{
    "amount": {
        "value": "1099",
        "currencyCode": "USD"
    },
   "reason": "defected product"
}

You can make the request with empty body. In that case, full amount will be refunded.

The response for refund transaction payment will look like this:

{
    "id": "6a0ff62c-a869-47c1-a380-3298d9718a42",
    "refundId": "123456",
    "status": "AUTHORISED",
    "createdAt": "2020-07-10T21:20:49Z",
}

Response fields are:

• id - the transaction ID

• refundId - ID saved on PayPal for this refund

• status - the current status for the transaction

• createdAt - the datetime when the refund was created