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[cloud widget]

Hi there, how can I help?

[restive lion]

I have a question about refund. When we initiate a refund, can we expect the results immediately in the response or do we need to listen to the refund events through webhook?

[cloud widget]

Yes you can see the result immediately in the response but it doesn't mean the refund is completed. It'll take a few days to reach your customer's bank

https://stripe.com/docs/refunds?dashboard-or-api=api#tracing-refunds:~:text=Your customer sees the refund as a credit approximately 5-10 business days later%2C depending upon the bank

[restive lion]

so we should do both.

[restive lion]

Can you confirm?

When we initiate a refund, can we expect the results immediately in the response or do we need to listen to the refund events through webhook?

Do we need to do both?

[quiet goblet]

Refunds would generally fail async if there was an issue with the payment method source: https://stripe.com/docs/refunds#failed-refunds

Obviously your initial requets to create the Refund may also fail like any other API request

[restive lion]

ok

so we should do both then.

[quiet goblet]

Yup!