# Bancontact Pro Payment Refund Service API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/bancontact/payment-refund-service-api/  
**Provider:** Bancontact — https://apis.io/providers/bancontact/  
**Base URL:** https://merchant.api.bancontact.net  
**Documentation:** https://docs.bancontactpro.com/apis/refund-public.openapi

Bancontact Pro Payment Refund Service API is one of 3 APIs that [Bancontact](https://apis.io/providers/bancontact/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Refunds, Payments, and Idempotency. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

First-party OpenAPI 3.1 contract (v3.0.3) for creating and retrieving refunds against SUCCEEDED Bancontact Pro payments. Refund creation is idempotent on a required Idempotency-Key header, must be activated per merchant by Bancontact support, and is secured with an ES256 detached JWS request signature; refunds are deducted from the merchant's next bulk payout.

## Operations (2)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| POST | `/v3/payments/{payment-id}/refunds` | Create refund for payment |
| GET | `/v3/payments/{payment-id}/refunds/{refund-id}` | get refund by id |

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.bancontactpro.com/apis/refund-public.openapi
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bancontact/refs/heads/main/openapi/bancontact-payment-refund-service-api-openapi.yml
- **OpenAPI** — https://docs.bancontactpro.com/_bundle/apis/refund-public.openapi.yaml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.bancontactpro.com/guides/general/refunds052025
- **Overlay** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bancontact/refs/heads/main/overlays/bancontact-payment-refund-service-api-overlay.yaml
- **Idempotency** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bancontact/refs/heads/main/conventions/bancontact-conventions.yml

## Other Bancontact APIs (2)

- [Bancontact Pro Payment V3 API](https://apis.io/apis/bancontact/payconiq-acceptance-api/)
- [Bancontact Pro Merchant Reconciliation API](https://apis.io/apis/bancontact/merchant-reconciliation-api/)

## Tags

Refunds, Payments, Idempotency

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