#PeterJCLaw-checkout
woven vector
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I've found the general docs for refunds, but I'm not finding anything which relates to Stripe Checkout specifically.
Is it the case that after Checkout all the rest of the interactions are the same -- i.e: fully customised, or am I missing something?Part of what I was hoping to get out of using Stripe Checkout was that it would take care of Sales Tax & accounting during refunds.
Hi 👋 Checkout does focus on just the checkout flow. Anything beyond that is accomplished with either custom built flows or Stripe dashboard functionality.
Can you elaborate on what you mean when said you hoped checkout would handle sales tax on refunds?
devout ridge
for example if we refund a user for an item, something will need to work out how much the value of the refund will be. Naively there will be the value of the item plus the portion of the sales tax that the item generated, however with things like basket size thresholds in the US my understanding is that a recalculation of the tax is needed.
I had been wondering if there was an API where I could say "refund the user for this item", rather than "refund this amount", and have the API do the working out (and then the refunding).
(In case it matters, I'm looking at using TaxJar for the tax calculation and was also looking at their integration into Stripe Checkout)
Another scenario we have is that sometimes we do actually want to refund a user a specific amount (perhaps as an apology), which kinda complicates things 🙂
Appreciate this may just be something that doesn't exist though
woven vector
Aahh, I see what you're saying. There are scenarios where a customer purchases multiple items, and only one of them needs to be refunded so you can't just refund the entire transaction.
devout ridge
(sorry, I could have been clearer on that)
woven vector
I'm not familiar with the need to recalculate tax at time of refund, and would recommend that you consult with your tax advisor on that as they'll be best suited to provide guidance on that.
I'm pretty sure our invoices do line-level tax amounts, but let me double check if Checkout does something similar.
devout ridge
yeah, I believe we can get line-item level information about tax collected from the session object: https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/object#checkout_session_object-line_items-data-taxes.
devout ridge
just to confirm here then: do you think that Stripe doesn't have anything (integrations, checkout or otherwise) which would facilitate recomputing sales taxes for use when partially refunding a transaction?
woven vector
Not that I'm aware of. There is a possibility that our Support team is aware of some functionality that i'm not though.