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Refunds

Create a Refund for a PayIn

The pay-in refund is a request to reimburse a pay-in and is supported for most payment methods. You can make partial refunds by providing a debited funds Amount value lower than the initial transaction amount.

<Note icon="fa-regular fa-circle-info"> **Note – Conditions for pay-in refund**
  • The amount value is 1 or above, regardless of the currency.
  • The initial transaction status is SUCCEEDED.
  • The initial transaction hasn't been disputed.
  • The initial transaction was made within the time window specified for the payment method. </Note>

Read more about pay-in refunds →

post/v2.01/{ClientId}/payins/{PayInId}/refunds

Path parameters

ClientIdstring required

Platform's API account identifier, associated with the API key.

PayInIdstring required

The unique identifier of the pay-in.

Headers

Authorizationstring required

Bearer authentication of the form Bearer <token>, where token is your auth token.

If your platform is using a proxy to take SCA-triggering action on behalf of users, you also need to integrate mTLS authentication and use the api-mtls base URL.

Request body

Tagstring

Max. length: 255 characters

Custom data that you can add to this object.

AuthorIdstring required

The unique identifier of the user at the source of the initial transaction.

StatementDescriptorstring

Max. length: 10 characters; only alphanumeric and spaces

Custom description to appear on the user’s bank statement along with the platform name. On refunds, the StatementDescriptor is only available when refunding SEPA and BACS direct debit pay-ins (no other payment methods nor transfers).

Different banks may show more or less information. See the <a href="/bank-statements">Customizing bank statement references</a> article for details.

Response

Success

Idstring

Max length: 128 characters (see data formats for details)

The unique identifier of the object.

Tagstring

Max. length: 255 characters

Custom data that you can add to this object.

CreationDateinteger

Unix timestamp (UTC) of the date and time the object was created.

AuthorIdstring

The unique identifier of the user at the source of the initial transaction.

CreditedUserIdstring

Default value: The unique identifier of the owner of the credited wallet.

The unique identifier of the user whose wallet is credited.

Statusstring

Returned values: CREATED, SUCCEEDED, FAILED

The status of the transaction.

ResultCodestring

The code indicating the result of the operation. This information is mostly used to <a href="/errors/codes">handle errors</a> or for filtering purposes.

ResultMessagestring

The explanation of the result code.

ExecutionDateinteger

Unix timestamp (UTC) of the date and time the status changed to SUCCEEDED, indicating that the transaction occurred. The statuses CREATED and FAILED return an ExecutionDate of null.

Typestring

Returned values: PAYIN, TRANSFER, CONVERSION, PAYOUT

The type of the transaction.

Naturestring

Returned values: REGULAR, REPUDIATION, REFUND, SETTLEMENT

The nature of the transaction, providing more information about the context in which the transaction occurred:

  • REGULAR – Relative to most of the transactions (pay-ins, payouts, and transfers) in a usual workflow.
  • REPUDIATION – Automatic withdrawal of funds from the platform’s repudiation wallet as part of the dispute process (when the user has requested a chargeback).
  • REFUND – Reimbursement of a transaction to the user (pay-in refund), to a wallet (transfer refund), or of a payout (payout refund, only initiated by Mangopay).
  • SETTLEMENT – Transfer made to the repudiation wallet by the platform to settle a lost dispute.
InitialTransactionIdstring

The unique identifier of the initial transaction being refunded.

InitialTransactionTypestring

Returned values: PAYIN, TRANSFER, PAYOUT

The type of the initial transaction being refunded.

InitialTransactionNaturestring

Returned values: REGULAR, REPUDIATION, REFUND, SETTLEMENT

The nature of the initial transaction being refunded, providing more information about the context in which the transaction occurred:

  • REGULAR – Relative to most of the transactions (pay-ins, payouts, and transfers) in a usual workflow.
  • REPUDIATION – Automatic withdrawal of funds from the platform’s repudiation wallet as part of the dispute process (when the user requested a chargeback).
  • REFUND – Reimbursement of a transaction to the user (pay-in refund), to a wallet (transfer refund), or of a payout (payout refund, only initiated by Mangopay).
  • SETTLEMENT – Transfer made to the repudiation wallet by the platform to settle the credit from a repudiation following a lost dispute.
DebitedWalletIdstring

The unique identifier of the debited wallet.

CreditedWalletIdstring

The unique identifier of the credited wallet.

StatementDescriptorstring

Max. length: 10 characters; only alphanumeric and spaces

Custom description to appear on the user’s bank statement along with the platform name. On refunds, the StatementDescriptor is only available when refunding SEPA and BACS direct debit pay-ins (no other payment methods nor transfers).

Different banks may show more or less information. See the <a href="/bank-statements">Customizing bank statement references</a> article for details.