Chargent Order Unlinked Refund

Overview

An unlinked refund transaction may be used to apply a refund to a credit card without a prior transaction.

Prequisites

Conditions

1. The payment gateway must support credit card unlinked refunds without a prior transaction.
2. The Gateway Setup Wizard advanced settings must be used to connfigure the payment gateway.
3. A Chargent Order must be created with the Charge Amount field set to the amount to refund to the credit card.
4. A Payment Method with credit card type must be related to the Chargent Order.

Resources

There are multiple prerequisite resources that must be created before requesting an unlinked refund.

Object	Definition
Chargent Order	Chargent Orders are central objects to payments lifecycle management.
Payment Method	Payment Methods are instruments that may be used to make or take payment.

Workflow

Precondition	Expected Result
Create One-Time Chargent Order	A Chargent Order is created for a one-time payment.
Create Payment Method Tokenization	A Payment Method Tokenization is created with a credit card type.
Assign Payment Method to Chargent Order	A Payment Method with a credit card type is assigned to a Chargent Order.

Create Chargent Order Unlinked Refund

Resource URL

HTTP Request	URL
POST	/services/apexrest/ChargentBase/orders/chargent-orders/{{orderId}}/unlinked-refunds

Request

JSON Example

{}

Response

JSON Example

{
    "logs": [
        {
            "interactionStatus": "APPROVED",
            "id": "{{logId}}",
            "gatewayResultCode": "200",
            "gatewayId": "{{gatewayId}}",
            "createdDate": "2023-10-19T01:13:31.000Z"
        }
    ],
    "gatewayResponse": {
        "gatewayToken": "{{token}}",
        "gatewayResultCodeDescription": "",
        "gatewayResultCode": "200",
        "gatewayMessage": "[refund-received]",
        "gatewayDate": "2023-10-19T01:13:31.839Z",
        "gatewayAuthorizationCode": "{{authCode}}"
    },
    "refund": {
        "status": "Approved",
        "requestDate": "2023-10-19T01:13:31.839Z",
        "id": "{{transactionId}}",
        "effectiveDate": "2023-10-19T01:13:31.839Z",
        "amount": 32
    }
}

Learn More

Learn more about Unlinked Refunds.