createRefund

If a payment is completed and confirmed successfully, some services allow customers to request a refund for a limited time after the payment took place. Not all service providers support refunds. In the case where this function is not supported, a 501 HTTP status code will be returned

SecurityhttpBasic
Request
path Parameters
refundId
required
string

The randomly generated UUID of this request

Request Body schema: application/json

A refund request

Array of objects (TransactionLabel)

A list containing labels that can be used to discover this transaction or group it with other transactions sharing labels with the same label name and value. Transaction labels should never be used to make transaction processing decisions.

object (Category)

Category to which a bill issuer can belong

id
required
string

The randomly generated UUID identifying this transaction, as defined for a variant 4 UUID in RFC 4122

time
required
string <date-time>

The date and time of the message as recorded by the sender. The format shall be as defined for date-time in RFC 3339 section 5.6. It is recommended that the optional time-secfrac be included up to millisecond precision

required
object (Originator)

The Originator object encapsulates data relating to the originator of the transaction

required
object (Institution)

Originating, acquiring, processing, or receiving institution details

object (Institution)

Originating, acquiring, processing, or receiving institution details

object (Institution)

Originating, acquiring, processing, or receiving institution details

required
Array of objects (ThirdPartyIdentifier)

An array of identifiers which each identify the transaction within each entity's system.

object (SlipData)

Data that may be printed on the customer slip for information purposes

basketRef
string

Used to group multiple transactions which would otherwise be considered independent.

tranType
string

Data relating to the type of transaction taking place (i.e. cash withdrawal, goods and services etc.).

Enum: "GOODS_AND_SERVICES" "CASH_WITHDRAWAL" "DEBIT_ADJUSTMENT" "GOODS_AND_SERVICES_WITH_CASH_BACK" "NON_CASH" "RETURNS" "DEPOSIT" "CREDIT_ADJUSTMENT" "GENERAL_CREDIT" "AVAILABLE_FUNDS_INQUIRY" "BALANCE_INQUIRY" "GENERAL_INQUIRY" "CARD_VERIFICATION_INQUIRY" "CARDHOLDER_ACCOUNTS_TRANSFER" "GENERAL_TRANSFER" "PAYMENT_FROM_ACCOUNT" "GENERAL_PAYMENT" "PAYMENT_TO_ACCOUNT" "PAYMENT_FROM_ACCOUNT_TO_ACCOUNT" "PLACE_HOLD_ON_CARD" "GENERAL_ADMIN" "CHANGE_PIN" "CARD_HOLDER_INQUIRY" "POINTS_INQUIRY"
srcAccType
string

This specifies the type of source account being used in the transaction (i.e. cheque, savings).

Enum: "DEFAULT" "SAVINGS" "CHEQUE" "CREDIT" "UNIVERSAL" "ELECTRONIC_PURSE" "GIFT_CARD" "STORED_VALUE"
destAccType
string

This specifies the type of destination account being used in the transaction (i.e. cheque, savings).

Enum: "DEFAULT" "SAVINGS" "CHEQUE" "CREDIT" "UNIVERSAL" "ELECTRONIC_PURSE" "GIFT_CARD" "STORED_VALUE"
stan
string

The System Trace Audit Number can be used to locate transactions across different systems.

rrn
string

This is a reference set by the original source of the transaction.

object (Customer)

A bill payment customer

issuerReference
required
string[A-Z0-9]{1,20}

An identifier that is printed on the customer slip and uniquely identifies the payment on the bill issuer's system. This value is used by the customer to request a refund when the service supports this function. It is thus important that this number is unique.

refundReason
required
string [ 0 .. 20 ] characters

The reason for the refund as given by the customer

Responses
201

Created

400

Bad request

500

Internal server error

501

Not implemented

503

Service unavailable

504

Gateway timeout

post/refunds/{refundId}
Request samples
application/json
{
  • "transactionLabels": [
    ],
  • "selectedCategory": {
    },
  • "id": "string",
  • "time": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  • "originator": {
    },
  • "client": {
    },
  • "settlementEntity": {
    },
  • "receiver": {
    },
  • "thirdPartyIdentifiers": [
    ],
  • "slipData": {
    },
  • "basketRef": "string",
  • "tranType": "GOODS_AND_SERVICES",
  • "srcAccType": "DEFAULT",
  • "destAccType": "DEFAULT",
  • "stan": "string",
  • "rrn": "string",
  • "customer": {
    },
  • "issuerReference": "string",
  • "refundReason": "string"
}
Response samples
application/json
{
  • "transactionLabels": [
    ],
  • "id": "string",
  • "time": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  • "originator": {
    },
  • "client": {
    },
  • "settlementEntity": {
    },
  • "receiver": {
    },
  • "thirdPartyIdentifiers": [
    ],
  • "slipData": {
    },
  • "basketRef": "string",
  • "tranType": "GOODS_AND_SERVICES",
  • "srcAccType": "DEFAULT",
  • "destAccType": "DEFAULT",
  • "stan": "string",
  • "rrn": "string",
  • "customer": {
    },
  • "amounts": {
    },
  • "partPaymentAllowed": false,
  • "overPaymentAllowed": false,
  • "account": {
    },
  • "trafficFine": {
    },
  • "policy": {
    }
}
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