Important! Due to EU & UK Payments regulatory requirements, an additional security verification via Digital Signatures is required for certain API calls that are made on behalf of EU/UK sellers, including issueRefund. Please refer to Digital Signatures for APIs to learn more on the impacted APIs and the process to create signatures to be included in the HTTP payload.

This method allows a seller to issue a full or partial refund to a buyer for an order. Full or partial refunds can be issued at the order level or line item level.

The refunds issued through this method are processed asynchronously, so the refund will not show as 'Refunded' right away. A seller will have to make a subsequent getOrder call to check the status of the refund. The status of an order refund can be found in the paymentSummary.refunds.refundStatus field of the getOrder response.