Refunds and cancellations

There are different situations in which you may want to cancel a sale:

If the payment status is pending or in_process, it means that the buyer has not been charged yet, so you can make a cancellation.
If the payment status is approved, it means that the buyer was charged, so you can make a refund.

WARNING

Note that for payments with QR and POINT, you can only make refunds but not cancellations.

Cancellations

Cancellations can be made only with pending and in process transactions
It is important for offline payment methods
The expiration of a payment occurs after 30 days and the cancellation is automatic, is this case the final status of the payment is cancelled/expired

Only pending or in_process payments can be cancelled. As soon as you cancel them, they will no longer be approved and you will be able to release the stock pending confirmation.

Cancellations are mainly used with cash payments.

These payments do not expire automatically, so you need to cancel them.

To cancel, make the following request by submitting the status cancelled:

          
<?php

  $payment = MercadoPago\Payment::find_by_id($payment_id);
  $payment->status = "cancelled";
  $payment->update();

?>

          
Payment payment = Payment.findById(paymentId);
payment.setStatus("cancelled");
payment.update();

          
mercadopago.payment.update({
  id: paymentId,
  status: "cancelled"
}).then().catch();

          
sdk = Mercadopago::SDK.new('ENV_ACCESS_TOKEN')
request = {
  status: 'cancelled'
}
result = sdk.payment.update(payment_id, request)

          
sdk = mercadopago.SDK("ENV_ACCESS_TOKEN")

payment_data = {
    "status": "cancelled"
}

payment_response = sdk.payment().update(payment_id, payment_data)
payment = payment_response["response"]

          
curl -X PUT \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN' \
-d '{"status":"cancelled"}' \
'https://api.mercadopago.com/v1/payments/:ID'

Response status code: 200 OK

Refunds

You can refund a payment within 180 days after it was approved.

You must have sufficient funds in your account in order to successfully refund the payment amount. Otherwise, you will get a 400 Bad Request error.

If the buyer made the payment with card, the amount will be refunded directly to the card.

If the payment was made by other means, the amount will be deposited in the buyer’s Mercado Pago account. If the buyer has no account, we will create one using the buyer’s e-mail address.

Issue a full refund

To issue a full refund, make the following request indicating the payment_id:

<?php

$payment = MercadoPago\Payment::find_by_id($payment_id);
$payment->refund();

?>

mercadopago.payment.refund(payment_id)
  .then(function (response) {
    //Process response...
  })
  .catch(function (error) {
    //Handle the error ...
  });

refund_response = sdk.refund().create(payment_id)
refund = refund_response["response"]

curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN' \
'https://api.mercadopago.com/v1/payments/:ID/refunds'

Note

The payment will be in refunded status.

Response status code: 201 Created

{
    "id": PAYMENT_ID,
    ...

    "refunds": [
      {
        "id": 111,
        "payment_id": PAYMENT_ID,
        "amount": 16.98,
        "metadata": {
        },
        "source": {
            "id": "130379930",
            "name": "Firstname Lastname",
            "type": "collector"
        },
        "date_created": "2014-12-04T17:00:03.000-04:00",
        "unique_sequence_number": null
      }
    ]
}

Issue a partial refund

You can issue up to 20 partial refunds for one single payment. Upon completion, the payment status will be approved with a status_detail in partially_refunded.

You must indicate the amount to be refunded.

          
<?php
  $payment = MercadoPago\Payment::find_by_id(paymentId);
  $payment->refund(10.5);
?>

          
Payment payment = Payment.findById(paymentId);
payment.refund(10.5);

          
mercadopago.payment.refundPartial({ payment_id: id, amount: Number(amount) })
  .then(function (response) {
    //Process response...
  })
  .catch(function (error) {
    //Handle the error ...
  });

          
sdk = Mercadopago::SDK.new('ENV_ACCESS_TOKEN')
request = {
  amount: 10.5
}
result = sdk.refund.create(payment_id, request)

          
refund_data = {
  "amount": 10.5
}

refund_response = sdk.refund().create(payment_id, refund_data)
refund = refund_response["response"]

          
curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN' \
'https://api.mercadopago.com/v1/payments/:ID/refunds' \
-d '{"amount":10.5}'

Get the refunds made

You can view the refunds issued for a specific payment with the following request:

          
<?php
  $payment = MercadoPago\Payment::find_by_id($payment_id);
  $refunds = $payment->refund();
?>

          
Payment payment = Payment.findById(paymentId);
ArrayList<Refund> refunds = payment.refund();

          
mercadopago.payment.refund(paymentId).then(function(data) {}
  //Do Stuff ..
});

          
sdk = Mercadopago::SDK.new('ENV_ACCESS_TOKEN')
result = sdk.refund.list(payment_id)
refunds = result[:response]

          
refunds_response = sdk.refund().list_all(payment_id)
refunds = refunds_response["response"]

          
curl -X GET \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN' \
'https://api.mercadopago.com/v1/payments/:ID'

Response: