Shift4 Payments

Shift4 Payments Refunds API

Refund charges and manage refund records.

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Shift4 Payments Blacklist Refunds API
  description: The Shift4 Payments API enables merchants and platforms to accept and manage payments, including one-time charges, refunds, customers, cards, tokenization, subscriptions, plans, payment methods, payment links, checkout sessions, fraud warnings, blacklist rules, disputes, file uploads, payouts, webhook endpoints, and events. Endpoints, parameters, and resource shapes are extracted from the public Shift4 documentation at https://dev.shift4.com/docs/api and the official open-source Shift4 SDKs (Java, Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, .NET, iOS, Android, WooCommerce, Salesforce B2C) maintained at https://github.com/shift4developer.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Shift4 Developer Support
    email: devsupport@shift4.com
    url: https://dev.shift4.com
  license:
    name: Documentation
    url: https://dev.shift4.com/docs
servers:
- url: https://api.shift4.com
  description: Production
security:
- BasicAuth: []
tags:
- name: Refunds
  description: Refund charges and manage refund records.
paths:
  /refunds:
    post:
      tags:
      - Refunds
      summary: Refund a Charge
      operationId: createRefund
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/RefundRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Refund created.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refund'
    get:
      tags:
      - Refunds
      summary: List Refunds
      operationId: listRefunds
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of refunds.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/RefundList'
  /refunds/{refundId}:
    parameters:
    - name: refundId
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
    get:
      tags:
      - Refunds
      summary: Retrieve a Refund
      operationId: getRefund
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A refund object.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refund'
    post:
      tags:
      - Refunds
      summary: Update a Refund
      operationId: updateRefund
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                metadata:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties:
                    type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Updated refund.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refund'
components:
  schemas:
    RefundList:
      $ref: '#/components/schemas/ListResponseRefund'
    Refund:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        created:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        amount:
          type: integer
        currency:
          type: string
        charge:
          type: string
        reason:
          type: string
          enum:
          - FRAUDULENT
          - DUPLICATE
          - REQUESTED_BY_CUSTOMER
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - SUCCESSFUL
          - FAILED
          - PENDING
        metadata:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
    ListResponseRefund:
      type: object
      properties:
        list:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Refund'
        hasMore:
          type: boolean
        totalCount:
          type: integer
    RefundRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - chargeId
      properties:
        chargeId:
          type: string
        amount:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
        reason:
          type: string
          enum:
          - fraudulent
          - duplicate
          - requested_by_customer
        metadata:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
  parameters:
    Limit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
        maximum: 100
        default: 10
      description: A limit on the number of objects to be returned.
  securitySchemes:
    BasicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: Use your secret API key as the username with an empty password.

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