Stripe Refunds API
Refund objects allow you to refund a previously created charge that isn't refunded yet. Funds are refunded to the credit or debit card that's initially charged.
Refund objects allow you to refund a previously created charge that isn't refunded yet. Funds are refunded to the credit or debit card that's initially charged.
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
title: Stripe Accounts Account Refunds API
description: This is an object representing a Stripe account. You can retrieve it to see properties on the account like its current requirements or if the account is enabled to make live charges or receive payouts.
contact:
email: dev-platform@stripe.com
name: Stripe Dev Platform Team
url: https://stripe.com
termsOfService: https://stripe.com/us/terms/
version: '2023-10-16'
x-stripeSpecFilename: spec3
servers:
- url: https://api.stripe.com/
security:
- basicAuth: []
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Refunds
paths:
/v1/refunds:
get:
description: <p>Returns a list of all refunds you created. We return the refunds in sorted order, with the most recent refunds appearing first The 10 most recent refunds are always available by default on the Charge object.</p>
operationId: GetRefunds
parameters:
- description: Only return refunds for the charge specified by this charge ID.
in: query
name: charge
required: false
schema:
type: string
style: form
- explode: true
in: query
name: created
required: false
schema:
anyOf:
- properties:
gt:
type: integer
gte:
type: integer
lt:
type: integer
lte:
type: integer
title: range_query_specs
type: object
- type: integer
style: deepObject
- description: A cursor for use in pagination. `ending_before` is an object ID that defines your place in the list. For instance, if you make a list request and receive 100 objects, starting with `obj_bar`, your subsequent call can include `ending_before=obj_bar` in order to fetch the previous page of the list.
in: query
name: ending_before
required: false
schema:
type: string
style: form
- description: Specifies which fields in the response should be expanded.
explode: true
in: query
name: expand
required: false
schema:
items:
maxLength: 5000
type: string
type: array
style: deepObject
- description: A limit on the number of objects to be returned. Limit can range between 1 and 100, and the default is 10.
in: query
name: limit
required: false
schema:
type: integer
style: form
- description: Only return refunds for the PaymentIntent specified by this ID.
in: query
name: payment_intent
required: false
schema:
maxLength: 5000
type: string
style: form
- description: A cursor for use in pagination. `starting_after` is an object ID that defines your place in the list. For instance, if you make a list request and receive 100 objects, ending with `obj_foo`, your subsequent call can include `starting_after=obj_foo` in order to fetch the next page of the list.
in: query
name: starting_after
required: false
schema:
type: string
style: form
requestBody:
content:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
encoding: {}
schema:
additionalProperties: false
$ref: '#/components/schemas/GetRefundsRequest'
required: false
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
schema:
description: ''
x-expandableFields:
- data
$ref: '#/components/schemas/APIMethodRefundList'
description: Successful response.
default:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
description: Error response.
tags:
- Refunds
post:
description: '<p>When you create a new refund, you must specify a Charge or a PaymentIntent object on which to create it.</p>
<p>Creating a new refund will refund a charge that has previously been created but not yet refunded.
Funds will be refunded to the credit or debit card that was originally charged.</p>
<p>You can optionally refund only part of a charge.
You can do so multiple times, until the entire charge has been refunded.</p>
<p>Once entirely refunded, a charge can’t be refunded again.
This method will raise an error when called on an already-refunded charge,
or when trying to refund more money than is left on a charge.</p>'
operationId: PostRefunds
requestBody:
content:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
encoding:
expand:
explode: true
style: deepObject
metadata:
explode: true
style: deepObject
schema:
additionalProperties: false
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PostRefundsRequest'
required: false
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/refund'
description: Successful response.
default:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
description: Error response.
tags:
- Refunds
/v1/refunds/{refund}:
get:
description: <p>Retrieves the details of an existing refund.</p>
operationId: GetRefundsRefund
parameters:
- description: Specifies which fields in the response should be expanded.
explode: true
in: query
name: expand
required: false
schema:
items:
maxLength: 5000
type: string
type: array
style: deepObject
- in: path
name: refund
required: true
schema:
type: string
style: simple
requestBody:
content:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
encoding: {}
schema:
additionalProperties: false
$ref: '#/components/schemas/GetRefundsRefundRequest'
required: false
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/refund'
description: Successful response.
default:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
description: Error response.
tags:
- Refunds
post:
description: '<p>Updates the refund that you specify by setting the values of the passed parameters. Any parameters that you don’t provide remain unchanged.</p>
<p>This request only accepts <code>metadata</code> as an argument.</p>'
operationId: PostRefundsRefund
parameters:
- in: path
name: refund
required: true
schema:
type: string
style: simple
requestBody:
content:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
encoding:
expand:
explode: true
style: deepObject
metadata:
explode: true
style: deepObject
schema:
additionalProperties: false
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PostRefundsRefundRequest'
required: false
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/refund'
description: Successful response.
default:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
description: Error response.
tags:
- Refunds
/v1/refunds/{refund}/cancel:
post:
description: '<p>Cancels a refund with a status of <code>requires_action</code>.</p>
<p>You can’t cancel refunds in other states. Only refunds for payment methods that require customer action can enter the <code>requires_action</code> state.</p>'
operationId: PostRefundsRefundCancel
parameters:
- in: path
name: refund
required: true
schema:
type: string
style: simple
requestBody:
content:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
encoding:
expand:
explode: true
style: deepObject
schema:
additionalProperties: false
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PostRefundsRefundCancelRequest'
required: false
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/refund'
description: Successful response.
default:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
description: Error response.
tags:
- Refunds
/v1/application_fees/{id}/refunds:
get:
description: <p>You can see a list of the refunds belonging to a specific application fee. Note that the 10 most recent refunds are always available by default on the application fee object. If you need more than those 10, you can use this API method and the <code>limit</code> and <code>starting_after</code> parameters to page through additional refunds.</p>
operationId: GetApplicationFeesIdRefunds
parameters:
- description: A cursor for use in pagination. `ending_before` is an object ID that defines your place in the list. For instance, if you make a list request and receive 100 objects, starting with `obj_bar`, your subsequent call can include `ending_before=obj_bar` in order to fetch the previous page of the list.
in: query
name: ending_before
required: false
schema:
maxLength: 5000
type: string
style: form
- description: Specifies which fields in the response should be expanded.
explode: true
in: query
name: expand
required: false
schema:
items:
maxLength: 5000
type: string
type: array
style: deepObject
- in: path
name: id
required: true
schema:
maxLength: 5000
type: string
style: simple
- description: A limit on the number of objects to be returned. Limit can range between 1 and 100, and the default is 10.
in: query
name: limit
required: false
schema:
type: integer
style: form
- description: A cursor for use in pagination. `starting_after` is an object ID that defines your place in the list. For instance, if you make a list request and receive 100 objects, ending with `obj_foo`, your subsequent call can include `starting_after=obj_foo` in order to fetch the next page of the list.
in: query
name: starting_after
required: false
schema:
maxLength: 5000
type: string
style: form
requestBody:
content:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
encoding: {}
schema:
additionalProperties: false
properties: {}
type: object
required: false
responses:
'200':
content:
application/json:
schema:
description: ''
properties:
data:
description: Details about each object.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/fee_refund'
type: array
has_more:
description: True if this list has another page of items after this one that can be fetched.
type: boolean
object:
description: String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value. Always has the value `list`.
enum:
- list
type: string
url:
description: The URL where this list can be accessed.
maxLength: 5000
type: string
required:
- data
- has_more
- object
- url
title: FeeRefundList
type: object
x-expandableFields:
- data
description: Successful response.
default:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
description: Error response.
summary: Stripe List Application Fee Refunds
tags:
- Refunds
x-api-evangelist-processing:
ChooseTags: true
components:
schemas:
GetRefundsRefundRequest:
type: object
properties: {}
error:
description: An error response from the Stripe API
properties:
error:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/api_errors'
required:
- error
type: object
APIMethodRefundList:
type: object
required:
- data
- has_more
- object
- url
properties:
data:
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/refund'
type: array
has_more:
description: True if this list has another page of items after this one that can be fetched.
type: boolean
object:
description: String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value. Always has the value `list`.
enum:
- list
type: string
url:
description: The URL where this list can be accessed.
maxLength: 5000
pattern: ^/v1/refunds
type: string
PostRefundsRefundRequest:
type: object
properties:
expand:
description: Specifies which fields in the response should be expanded.
items:
maxLength: 5000
type: string
type: array
metadata:
anyOf:
- additionalProperties:
type: string
type: object
- enum:
- ''
type: string
description: Set of [key-value pairs](https://stripe.com/docs/api/metadata) that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format. Individual keys can be unset by posting an empty value to them. All keys can be unset by posting an empty value to `metadata`.
refund:
description: 'Refund objects allow you to refund a previously created charge that isn''t
refunded yet. Funds are refunded to the credit or debit card that''s
initially charged.
Related guide: [Refunds](https://stripe.com/docs/refunds)'
properties:
amount:
description: Amount, in cents (or local equivalent).
type: integer
balance_transaction:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/balance_transaction'
description: Balance transaction that describes the impact on your account balance.
nullable: true
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/balance_transaction'
charge:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/charge'
description: ID of the charge that's refunded.
nullable: true
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/charge'
created:
description: Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
format: unix-time
type: integer
currency:
description: Three-letter [ISO currency code](https://www.iso.org/iso-4217-currency-codes.html), in lowercase. Must be a [supported currency](https://stripe.com/docs/currencies).
type: string
description:
description: An arbitrary string attached to the object. You can use this for displaying to users (available on non-card refunds only).
maxLength: 5000
type: string
destination_details:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/refund_destination_details'
failure_balance_transaction:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/balance_transaction'
description: After the refund fails, this balance transaction describes the adjustment made on your account balance that reverses the initial balance transaction.
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/balance_transaction'
failure_reason:
description: 'Provides the reason for the refund failure. Possible values are: `lost_or_stolen_card`, `expired_or_canceled_card`, `charge_for_pending_refund_disputed`, `insufficient_funds`, `declined`, `merchant_request`, or `unknown`.'
maxLength: 5000
type: string
id:
description: Unique identifier for the object.
maxLength: 5000
type: string
instructions_email:
description: For payment methods without native refund support (for example, Konbini, PromptPay), provide an email address for the customer to receive refund instructions.
maxLength: 5000
type: string
metadata:
additionalProperties:
maxLength: 500
type: string
description: Set of [key-value pairs](https://stripe.com/docs/api/metadata) that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format.
nullable: true
type: object
next_action:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/refund_next_action'
object:
description: String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value.
enum:
- refund
type: string
payment_intent:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/payment_intent'
description: ID of the PaymentIntent that's refunded.
nullable: true
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/payment_intent'
reason:
description: Reason for the refund, which is either user-provided (`duplicate`, `fraudulent`, or `requested_by_customer`) or generated by Stripe internally (`expired_uncaptured_charge`).
enum:
- duplicate
- expired_uncaptured_charge
- fraudulent
- requested_by_customer
nullable: true
type: string
x-stripeBypassValidation: true
receipt_number:
description: This is the transaction number that appears on email receipts sent for this refund.
maxLength: 5000
nullable: true
type: string
source_transfer_reversal:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/transfer_reversal'
description: The transfer reversal that's associated with the refund. Only present if the charge came from another Stripe account.
nullable: true
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/transfer_reversal'
status:
description: Status of the refund. This can be `pending`, `requires_action`, `succeeded`, `failed`, or `canceled`. Learn more about [failed refunds](https://stripe.com/docs/refunds#failed-refunds).
maxLength: 5000
nullable: true
type: string
transfer_reversal:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/transfer_reversal'
description: This refers to the transfer reversal object if the accompanying transfer reverses. This is only applicable if the charge was created using the destination parameter.
nullable: true
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/transfer_reversal'
required:
- amount
- created
- currency
- id
- object
title: Refund
type: object
x-expandableFields:
- balance_transaction
- charge
- destination_details
- failure_balance_transaction
- next_action
- payment_intent
- source_transfer_reversal
- transfer_reversal
x-resourceId: refund
GetRefundsRequest:
type: object
properties: {}
PostRefundsRefundCancelRequest:
type: object
properties:
expand:
description: Specifies which fields in the response should be expanded.
items:
maxLength: 5000
type: string
type: array
application_fee:
description: ''
properties:
account:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/account'
description: ID of the Stripe account this fee was taken from.
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/account'
amount:
description: Amount earned, in cents (or local equivalent).
type: integer
amount_refunded:
description: Amount in cents (or local equivalent) refunded (can be less than the amount attribute on the fee if a partial refund was issued)
type: integer
application:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/application'
description: ID of the Connect application that earned the fee.
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/application'
balance_transaction:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/balance_transaction'
description: Balance transaction that describes the impact of this collected application fee on your account balance (not including refunds).
nullable: true
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/balance_transaction'
charge:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/charge'
description: ID of the charge that the application fee was taken from.
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/charge'
created:
description: Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
format: unix-time
type: integer
currency:
description: Three-letter [ISO currency code](https://www.iso.org/iso-4217-currency-codes.html), in lowercase. Must be a [supported currency](https://stripe.com/docs/currencies).
type: string
id:
description: Unique identifier for the object.
maxLength: 5000
type: string
livemode:
description: Has the value `true` if the object exists in live mode or the value `false` if the object exists in test mode.
type: boolean
object:
description: String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value.
enum:
- application_fee
type: string
originating_transaction:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/charge'
description: ID of the corresponding charge on the platform account, if this fee was the result of a charge using the `destination` parameter.
nullable: true
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/charge'
refunded:
description: Whether the fee has been fully refunded. If the fee is only partially refunded, this attribute will still be false.
type: boolean
refunds:
description: A list of refunds that have been applied to the fee.
properties:
data:
description: Details about each object.
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/fee_refund'
type: array
has_more:
description: True if this list has another page of items after this one that can be fetched.
type: boolean
object:
description: String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value. Always has the value `list`.
enum:
- list
type: string
url:
description: The URL where this list can be accessed.
maxLength: 5000
type: string
required:
- data
- has_more
- object
- url
title: FeeRefundList
type: object
x-expandableFields:
- data
required:
- account
- amount
- amount_refunded
- application
- charge
- created
- currency
- id
- livemode
- object
- refunded
- refunds
title: PlatformFee
type: object
x-expandableFields:
- account
- application
- balance_transaction
- charge
- originating_transaction
- refunds
x-resourceId: application_fee
fee_refund:
description: '`Application Fee Refund` objects allow you to refund an application fee that
has previously been created but not yet refunded. Funds will be refunded to
the Stripe account from which the fee was originally collected.
Related guide: [Refunding application fees](https://stripe.com/docs/connect/destination-charges#refunding-app-fee)'
properties:
amount:
description: Amount, in cents (or local equivalent).
type: integer
balance_transaction:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/balance_transaction'
description: Balance transaction that describes the impact on your account balance.
nullable: true
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/balance_transaction'
created:
description: Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.
format: unix-time
type: integer
currency:
description: Three-letter [ISO currency code](https://www.iso.org/iso-4217-currency-codes.html), in lowercase. Must be a [supported currency](https://stripe.com/docs/currencies).
type: string
fee:
anyOf:
- maxLength: 5000
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/application_fee'
description: ID of the application fee that was refunded.
x-expansionResources:
oneOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/application_fee'
id:
description: Unique identifier for the object.
maxLength: 5000
type: string
metadata:
additionalProperties:
maxLength: 500
type: string
description: Set of [key-value pairs](https://stripe.com/docs/api/metadata) that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format.
nullable: true
type: object
object:
description: String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value.
enum:
- fee_refund
type: string
required:
- amount
- created
- currency
- fee
- id
- object
title: FeeRefund
type: object
x-expandableFields:
- balance_transaction
- fee
x-resourceId: fee_refund
PostRefundsRequest:
type: object
properties:
amount:
type: integer
charge:
description: The identifier of the charge to refund.
maxLength: 5000
type: string
currency:
description: Three-letter [ISO currency code](https://www.iso.org/iso-4217-currency-codes.html), in lowercase. Must be a [supported currency](https://stripe.com/docs/currencies).
type: string
customer:
description: Customer whose customer balance to refund from.
maxLength: 5000
type: string
expand:
description: Specifies which fields in the response should be expanded.
items:
maxLength: 5000
type: string
type: array
instructions_email:
description: For payment methods without native refund support (e.g., Konbini, PromptPay), use this email from the customer to receive refund instructions.
type: string
metadata:
anyOf:
- additionalProperties:
type: string
type: object
- enum:
- ''
type: string
description: Set of [key-value pairs](https://stripe.com/docs/api/metadata) that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format. Individual keys can be unset by posting an empty value to them. All keys can be unset by posting an empty value to `metadata`.
origin:
description: Origin of the refund
enum:
- customer_balance
type: string
payment_intent:
description: The identifier of the PaymentIntent to refund.
maxLength: 5000
type: string
reason:
description: String indicating the reason for the refund. If set, possible values are `duplicate`, `fraudulent`, and `requested_by_customer`. If you believe the charge to be fraudulent, specifying `fraudulent` as the reason will add the associated card and email to your [block lists](https://stripe.com/docs/radar/lists), and will also help us improve our fraud detection algorithms.
enum:
- duplicate
- fraudulent
- requested_by_customer
maxLength: 5000
type: string
refund_application_fee:
description: Boolean indicating whether the application fee should be refunded when refunding this charge. If a full charge refund is given, the full application fee will be refunded. Otherwise, the application fee will be refunded in an amount proportional to the amount of the charge refunded. An application fee can be refunded only by the application that created the charge.
type: boolean
reverse_transfer:
description: Boolean indicating whether the transfer should be reversed when refunding this charge. The transfer will be reversed proportionally to the amount being refunded (either the entire or partial amount).<br><br>A transfer can be reversed only by the application that created the charge.
type: boolean