Study Guide
Table Of Contents
- PayPal Certified Developer Program Study Guide
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Online Payment Processing
- Internet Security and Fraud Prevention
- Why Every Business Should Be Concerned About Internet Fraud
- Liability for Internet Fraud
- Internet Fraud: What It Is and How It Happens
- Who Is at Risk for Online Fraud
- Reducing Exposure to Fraud
- What Banks and Card Associations Are Doing to Prevent Online Credit Card Fraud
- What PayPal Is Doing to Protect Your Business Against Fraud
- Disclosure and Compliance
- PayPal Fraud Protection Services
- Review Questions
- Getting Started With Account Setup
- API Credentials
- Name-Value Pair (NVP) API
- Express Checkout
- Direct Payment API
- Transactions
- Sandbox Testing
- Answers to Review Questions
- General Reference Information
- Glossary
- Index
Transactions
Refunds
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94 March 2008 PayPal Certified Developer Program Study Guide
RefundTransaction Request
Use a RefundTransaction request to initiate a full or partial refund of a transaction.
RefundTransaction Response
A RefundTransaction response contains the results of the refund.
TABLE 8.7 RefundTransaction Request Parameters
Parameter Description Required?
METHOD Name of API call: RefundTransaction Yes
TRANSACTIONID Unique identifier of a transaction.
Character length and limitations: 17 single-byte alphanumeric characters
Yes
REFUNDTYPE Type of refund to make:
z Full
z Partial
z Other
Yes
AMT Refund amount.
AMT is required if REFUNDTYPE is Partial.
NOTE: If REFUNDTYPE is Full, do not set AMT.
No
NOTE Custom memo about the refund.
Character length and limitations: 255 single-byte alphanumeric characters
No
T
ABLE 8.8 RefundTransaction Response Fields
Field Description
REFUNDTRANSACTIONID Unique transaction ID of the refund.
Character length and limitations: 17 single-byte characters
NETREFUNDAMT Amount subtracted from PayPal balance of original recipient of payment to make
this refund.
FEEREFUNDAMT Transaction fee refunded to original recipient of payment.
GROSSREFUNDAMT Amount of money refunded to original payer.