idhruv

[harsh nacelle]

👋 Thanks for reaching out
Yes you can refund that PaymentIntent using refund API:
https://stripe.com/docs/refunds
https://stripe.com/docs/api/refunds/create

[sullen eagle]

const refund = await stripe.refunds.create({ payment_intent: 'pi_Aabcxyz01aDfoo', amount: 1000, });

this will work?

[harsh nacelle]

Otherwise, why aren't you using Stripe Subscription without managing PaymentIntent and invoices on your own?
Take a look at this if you think it may helps you
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/build-subscriptions
For your case, you can specify a proration behaviour
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/prorations

[harsh nacelle]

Yes, if you want to refund partial amount you can specify it, otherwise pass just the PaymentIntent Id:
https://stripe.com/docs/refunds#api

[sullen eagle]

what happens exactly if i dont specify amount and use just this one liner await stripe.refunds.create({payment_intent: 'pi_Aabcxyz01aDfoo'});

[sullen eagle]

actually, our setup is custom setup with its own payment screens and behavior. I am reading about how proration can help me here

[harsh nacelle]

It will refund all the amount of that PaymentIntent to the customer

[sullen eagle]

okay

I am not able to understand how prorations can help me here?

right now in my case prorations are set to none, proration_behavior: 'none'

while creating subscription schedule

and I am using subscription schedule, not just subscriptions

[harsh nacelle]

Even with subscription_schedule you can specify proartion behaviour, it can be set for each phase:
https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscription_schedules/create#create_subscription_schedule-phases-proration_behavior

but it'll depends on your business, if the user cancels the subscription in the middle of the month for example and you want to refund the user all the charged amount, then you need to use refund API and not proration