POST /invoices/{invoice-id}/record_refund

Offline refunds can be recorded for invoices that have been paid via card payments, Amazon Payments, Paypal Express Checkout, as well as offline payments.

Read more on refunds in our docs.

Servers

Path parameters

Name Type Required Description
invoice-id String Yes

Request headers

Name Type Required Description
chargebee-request-origin-device String No

The device from which the customer has made the request

Content-Type String Yes The media type of the request body.

Default value: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

chargebee-event-webhook String No

skip only webhooks

Possible values:

  • "all-disabled"
chargebee-event-actions String No

skip all actions to be done on the events

Possible values:

  • "all-disabled"
chargebee-request-origin-user String No

The email address of your customer/user. Use this when the email address has only ASCII characters.

chargebee-request-origin-ip String No

The IP address of the customer where the request originated

chargebee-request-origin-user-encoded String No

The Base64-encoded email address of your customer/user. Use this if the email address has UTF-8 characters. When this header is provided, the header chargebee-request-origin-user is ignored.

chargebee-event-email String No

skip only emails

Possible values:

  • "all-disabled"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
transaction Object No

Parameters for transaction

transaction.reference_number String No

The reference number for this transaction. For example, the check number when payment_method = check.

transaction.amount Integer No

The amount to be refunded (for online payments) or recorded as refunded (for offline payments). If not specified, the entire refundable amount for this invoice is refunded. The refundable amount is the total amount paid (and not already refunded) for the invoice. Note: Any linked_taxes_withheld associated with the invoice can also be recorded as refunded via this operation.

transaction.payment_method String Yes

The payment method of this transaction * cash - Cash * paypal_express_checkout - Paypal Express Checkout * card - Card * other - Payment Methods other than the above types * check - Check * direct_debit - Direct Debit * bank_transfer - Bank Transfer * chargeback - Only applicable for a transaction of type = refund. This value is set by Chargebee when an automated chargeback occurs. You can also set this explicitly when recording a refund. * amazon_payments - Amazon Payments

Possible values:

  • "check"
  • "chargeback"
  • "other"
  • "cash"
  • "bank_transfer"
transaction.date Integer Yes

Indicates when this transaction occurred.

memo String Yes

Remarks, if any, on the refund.

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