Refunds

You can refund your customers directly by using the Paystack Refund API

Creating a refund

You'll just need to send a POST request to the Create Refund^API endpoint and pass the transaction ID or reference in the transaction field.

To initiate a partial refund, you enter the amount you want to refund in the amount field.

The refund amount must not be more than the original transaction amount.

Show Response

1curl https://api.paystack.co/refund
2  -H 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_SECRET_KEY'
3  -H 'cache-control: no-cache'
4  -H 'content-type: application/json'
5  -d '{ "transaction":"qufywna9w9a5d8v", "amount":"10000" }
6  -X POST
7

1{
2  "status": true,
3  "message": "Refund has been queued for processing",
4  "data": {
5    "transaction": {
6      "id": 627178582,
7      "reference": "qufywna9w9a5d8v",
8      "amount": 20000,
9      "paid_at": "2020-04-17T14:41:37.000Z",
10      "channel": "card",
11      "currency": "NGN",
12      "authorization": {
13        "exp_month": null,
14        "exp_year": null,
15        "account_name": null
16      },
17      "customer": {},
18      "plan": {},
19      "subaccount": {},
20      "order_id": null,
21      "paidAt": "2020-04-17T14:41:37.000Z"
22    },
23    "integration": 428626,
24    "deducted_amount": 0,
25    "channel": null,
26    "merchant_note": "Refund for transaction qufywna9w9a5d8v by damilola.o[email protected]",
27    "customer_note": "Refund for transaction qufywna9w9a5d8v",
28    "status": "pending",
29    "refunded_by": "[email protected]",
30    "expected_at": "2020-05-28T11:12:17.606Z",
31    "currency": "NGN",
32    "domain": "test",
33    "amount": 10000,
34    "fully_deducted": false,
35    "id": 747680,
36    "createdAt": "2020-05-19T11:12:17.756Z",
37    "updatedAt": "2020-05-19T11:12:17.756Z"
38  }
39}

List Refunds

To pull a list of your refunds, you can use the List Refunds^API endpoint.

Show Response

1curl https://api.paystack.co/refund 
2-H 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_SECRET_KEY'
3-H 'cache-control: no-cache'
4-H 'content-type: application/json' 
5-X GET

1{
2  "status": true,
3  "message": "Refunds retrieved",
4  "data": [
5    {
6      "integration": 428626,
7      "transaction": 627178582,
8      "dispute": null,
9      "settlement": null,
10      "id": 747680,
11      "domain": "test",
12      "currency": "NGN",
13      "amount": 10000,
14      "status": "processed",
15      "refunded_at": null,
16      "refunded_by": "[email protected]",
17      "customer_note": "Refund for transaction qufywna9w9a5d8v",
18      "merchant_note": "Refund for transaction qufywna9w9a5d8v by [email protected]",
19      "deducted_amount": 10000,
20      "fully_deducted": true,
21      "createdAt": "2020-05-19T11:12:17.000Z"
22    },
23    {
24      "integration": 428626,
25      "transaction": 640672957,
26      "dispute": null,
27      "settlement": null,
28      "id": 742609,
29      "domain": "test",
30      "currency": "NGN",
31      "amount": 20000,
32      "status": "processed",
33      "refunded_at": null,
34      "refunded_by": "[email protected]",
35      "customer_note": "blah blah",
36      "merchant_note": "yada yada",
37      "deducted_amount": 20000,
38      "fully_deducted": true,
39      "createdAt": "2020-04-30T10:43:47.000Z"
40    }
41  ],
42  "meta": {
43    "total": 2,
44    "skipped": 0,
45    "perPage": 50,
46    "page": 1,
47    "pageCount": 1
48  }
49}