#patchonknee_best-practices
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dense flint
hi @real oyster , could you share more about "refund a bulk amount across payments". Do you mean performing refunds on multiple payments?
real oyster
hey @dense flint. thanks for responding. Lets say there is an "order" with 4 separate $25 payments on it, all performed on a different card, and were attempting to refund $80, how would you go about achieving that? currently its my understading that I would have to iterate over each payment and refund the required amount
dense flint
Your understanding is correct. If there are 4 separate payments, it would mean there's 4 seperate PaymentIntents. The refund will need to be issued on the PaymentIntent, which means full refund on three of the PaymentIntents ($25 x 3), and then a $5 partial refund on the fourth.
real oyster
damn thats what I thought, is it possible to check if a refund is possible(not just having enough money on the charge) before refunding
dense flint
the amount used to issue the refund is taken from your Stripe account's available balance. You can check your Stripe account's available balance via the API [0]
these pages might be helpful:
- https://docs.stripe.com/refunds?dashboard-or-api=api#issuing
- https://docs.stripe.com/payments/balances
[0]https://docs.stripe.com/api/balance/balance_objectl#balance_object-available
real oyster
in the case of a card not accepting a refund (expired/on hold etc), is there no way of knowing that before attempting the refund?
dense flint
there's no way of knowing for sure but we do have a guide on handling failed refunds: https://docs.stripe.com/refunds?dashboard-or-api=api#failed-refunds