How to partially refund an event booking
In this help article, we'll show you how to partially refund your customer's event booking.
You may need to partially refund a customer's event booking if they requested it, if there was a mistake, or any other reasons.
You can partially refund their event booking within your Checkout Page account.
Please note that:
- Stripe charges transaction fees
- Partially refunding an event booking does not cancel the event booking. Click here to learn more on how to cancel an event booking
- You can refund a minimum of 50 cents
Partial refund
You can partially refund the event booking in your Checkout Page account with the following steps:
- Click Event bookings from the left-side menu
- Select the event booking in question

3. Click Refund booking 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 booking!
Refund status
When partially refunded, the event booking will now be stated in your reports as Partial refund.

Refund email
When an event booking 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 event bookings 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 event booking 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:
- Click Event bookings from the left-side menu
- Select the event booking in question

3. Click Refund booking 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 booking!
Refund status
Now that the full amount has been refunded, the event booking 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 event bookings 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 event booking 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 event bookings