How to partially refund a payment

In this help article, we'll show you how to partially refund your customer's payment.

You may need to partially refund a customer's one-time payment if they requested it, if there was a mistake, or any other reasons.

You can partially refund their payment within your Checkout Page account.

Please note that:

  • Stripe charges transaction fees
  • You can refund a minimum of 50 cents

Partial refund

You can partially refund the payment in your Checkout Page account with the following steps:

  1. Click Payments from the left-side menu
  2. Select the payment in question

3. Click Refund payment from the right-side menu

4. A pop-up will appear where you can:

  • Input the partial refund amount
  • Select the reason for the partial refund from the drop-down menu
  • State your reason for the partial refund. This will not be shown to your customers and is for internal records only.
  • Enable for a Refund email to be sent to the customer or disable the feature for no email to be sent

5. Click to Refund payment!

Refund status

When partially refunded, the one-time payment will now be stated in your reports as Partial refund.

Refund email

When a payment is partially refunded and if you enabled for the Refund email to be sent, the customer will receive an email notifying them of the partial refund.

Under the Emails tab, you will see a new line appear at the top that records a progress log of the sent Refund email.

You can click View email on the log to see how the email would appear to your customers.

Customers can view and manage their payment from the Refund email, which will take them to the Customer portal.

Refund invoice

Attached to the Refund email, the customer will receive an Invoice that outlines the partial refund.

Under the Invoices tab, you will see a new line appear at the top that provides the Refund invoice.

You can click Download to view the Refund invoice, which will state the partial amount refunded on which date.

Transactions

The payment partial refund will be recorded as a transaction under the Transactions tab, where you will see a new line appear at the top that provides the partial Refund details.

You can click View reason to see the selection and notes that you left earlier describing the reason for the partial refund.

Refunding the remaining amount

You may choose to refund the remaining amount after a partial refund was made for various reasons.

You can refund the remaining amount in your Checkout Page account with the following steps:

  1. Click Payments from the left-side menu
  2. Select the payment in question

3. Click Refund payment from the right-side menu

4. A pop-up will appear where you can:

  • Input the remaining refund amount
  • Select the reason for the remaining refund from the drop-down menu
  • State your reason for the remaining refund. This will not be shown to your customers and is for internal records only.
  • Enable for a Refund email to be sent to the customer or disable the feature for no email to be sent

The Refund amount will state how much left can be refunded.

5. Click to Refund payment!

Refund status

Now that the full amount has been refunded, the payment will now be stated in your reports as Refunded.

Refund email

If you enabled for the Refund email to be sent, the customer will receive an email notifying them of the remaining refund.

Under the Emails tab, you will see a new line appear above the first partial refund that records a progress log of the sent Refund email.

You can click View email on the log to see how the email would appear to your customers.

Customers can view and manage their payments from the Refund email, which will take them to the Customer portal.

Refund invoice

Attached to the Refund email, the customer will receive an Invoice that outlines the remaining refund.

Under the Invoices tab, you will see a new line appear above the first partial refund that provides the Refund invoice.

The Invoice will be updated with every new partial payment that is refunded.

You can click Download to view the Refund invoice, which will state the remaining amount refunded on which date below the first partial refund line.

Transactions

The payment's remaining refund will be recorded as a transaction under the Transactions tab, where you will see a new line appear above the first partial refund line that provides the remaining Refund details.

You can click View reason to see the selection and notes that you left earlier describing the reason for the remaining refund.

Click here to learn how to offer a full refund for payments