#mink4501_webhooks
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jovial phoenix
hello. When performing a refund while canceling a subscription in the Stripe Dashboard, the deprecated charge.refunded event is sent to the webhook.
How can I ensure that the refund.created event is sent to the webhook?
jade prawn
where did you see that charge.refunded is deprecated?
jade prawn
that's the Charges API, it's different. In short, you should not use the Charges API to create payments
https://docs.stripe.com/refunds?dashboard-or-api=api#refund-webhook-events - there's a description about each type of refund related event here
refund.created is sent when a refund from a customer’s cash balance is created. Stripe only sends this in rare cases. For most use cases, listen for charge.refunded to know when a refund is complete.
jovial phoenix
Thank you, then I'd like to repeat my question.
Q1. How can I find out when the refund actually happened in Stripe when the charge.refunded event was sent to the webhook?
The created field inside charge doesn't seem to be the correct answer.
jade prawn
The charge.refunded event reflects a Charge object. it's pretty unfortunate, but from v2022-11-15 (https://stripe.com/docs/upgrades#2022-11-15), the Charge object no longer auto expands the refunds, so you would probably have to make another request to list all refunds for a particular Charge (https://stripe.com/docs/api/refunds/list#list_refunds-charge) to find the details of a specific refund
jovial phoenix
Or, as an alternative, why not use the time the webhook was sent?
jade prawn
hrm, that's a pretty good idea too
jovial phoenix
I ask this because I'm wondering if the time when the refund is processed in Stripe and the time when the Stripe event is generated is asynchronous, because if it is, there could be quite a time difference in the event of a failure in the Stripe system.