Reversal

Use the /payments/{paymentPspReference}/reversals endpoint if you want to return the funds to your shopper, but are not certain whether the payment has been captured or not.

This will either: 

• Cancel the payment – in case it has not yet been captured. 
• Refund the payment – in case it has already been captured.

You get the outcome of the reversal request asynchronously, in a CANCEL_OR_REFUND webhook.

Do not use the /payments/{paymentPspReference}/reversals endpoint for payments that involve

• Multiple partial captures.
• Split data either at time of payment or capture for Adyen for Platforms.

Instead, check if the payment has been captured and make a corresponding /payments/{paymentPspReference}/refunds or /payments/{paymentPspReference}/cancels call.

Reverse a payment

Make a POST /payments/{paymentPspReference}/reversals request, where paymentPspReference is the pspReference of the payment that you want to reverse. You can find the pspReference in the AUTHORISATION webhook.

In your request, include:

• merchantAccount: The name of your merchant account that is used to process the payment.
• reference: You can optionally include a reference reversal request. The reference field is useful to tag a partial cancel or refund for reconciliation.

curl https://checkout-test.adyen.com/checkout/v67/payments/8836183819713023/reversals \
-H 'X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
    "reference": "YourReversalReference",
    "merchantAccount": "YOUR_MERCHANT_ACCOUNT"
}'

The /payments/{paymentPspReference}/reversals response includes a pspReference, Adyen's unique reference associated with this reversal request.

{
    "merchantAccount": "YOUR_MERCHANT_ACCOUNT",
    "paymentPspReference": "8836183819713023",
    "pspReference" : "8863534564726784",
    "reference": "YourReversalReference",
    "status" : "received"
}

CANCEL_OR_REFUND webhook

You get the outcome of the reversal request asynchronously, in a CANCEL_OR_REFUND webhook that includes:

• eventCode: CANCEL_OR_REFUND.
• originalReference: The paymentPspReference.
• pspReference: The pspReferencefrom the /payments/{paymentPspReference}/reversals response.

• success: Indicates whether the request to reverse the payment was successful.

  • true: your request was successful. The  modification.action field in the  additionalData object contains information about whether the request produced a cancel or a refund. 
  • false: your request failed. The notification includes a reason field with a short description of the problem. Review the reason, fix the issue if possible, and resubmit the refund request.

 {
   "live":"false",
   "notificationItems":[
      {
         "NotificationRequestItem":{
            "additionalData":{
               "modification.action":"refund"
            },
            "amount":{
               "currency":"EUR",
               "value":100
            },
            "eventCode":"CANCEL_OR_REFUND",
            "eventDate":"2018-09-20T14:29:09+02:00",
            "merchantAccountCode":"YourMerchantAccount",
            "originalReference":"8836183819713023",
            "paymentMethod":"visa",
            "pspReference":"8863534564726784",
            "reason":"",
            "success":"true"
         }
      }
   ]
}

For more information about the included fields, see the CANCEL_OR_REFUND notification reference.

See also