Billing & Payments
Process refund for subscription order
Processes a refund for a fulfilled subscription order. This creates a refund in Shopify and returns the money to the customer’s original payment method.
What it does:
- Validates order is eligible for refund (fulfilled, not already refunded)
- Creates refund transaction in Shopify
- Processes refund with payment gateway
- Updates order status to ‘Refunded’
- Sends refund confirmation email to customer
- Logs refund activity
Refund Eligibility:
- Order must be fulfilled
- Cannot already be refunded
- Must be within merchant’s refund policy window
- Payment gateway must support refunds
Refund Processing:
- Refund is processed to original payment method
- Takes 5-10 business days to appear in customer’s account
- Processing fees are typically not refunded
- Partial refunds are supported (if configured)
Important Warnings:
- This action cannot be undone
- Refunded orders cannot be un-refunded
- Inventory is restocked automatically
- Refunds may incur gateway fees
Authentication: Customer must be logged in and own the subscription
PUT
/
subscriptions
/
cp
/
api
/
subscription-billing-attempts
/
refund-fulfillment
/
{id}
Process refund for subscription order
curl --request PUT \
--url https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}import requests
url = "https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}"
response = requests.put(url)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'PUT'};
fetch('https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));const url = 'https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}';
const options = {method: 'PUT'};
fetch(url, options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(json => console.log(json))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PUT",
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("PUT", url, nil)
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url)
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"message": "Refund processed successfully. Amount will appear in 5-10 business days.",
"refundAmount": 44.49,
"refundId": "123456",
"success": true
}{}{}⌘I
Process refund for subscription order
curl --request PUT \
--url https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}import requests
url = "https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}"
response = requests.put(url)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'PUT'};
fetch('https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));const url = 'https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}';
const options = {method: 'PUT'};
fetch(url, options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(json => console.log(json))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PUT",
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("PUT", url, nil)
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://www.myshop.com/apps/subscriptions/cp/api/subscription-billing-attempts/refund-fulfillment/{id}")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url)
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"message": "Refund processed successfully. Amount will appear in 5-10 business days.",
"refundAmount": 44.49,
"refundId": "123456",
"success": true
}{}{}