# Refund [POST]

<span style="background-color: #c2e0f4;">**https://api.paiwise.com/checkout/refund**</span> \[POST\]

The refund can be used on objects that has status “paid” or “reserved” and will result in changing the status to either “refunded” or “reserve released”

Values

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-checkout_id-string-t" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 103.58%;"><tbody><tr><td style="width: 33.3745%;">checkout\_id</td><td style="width: 33.3745%;">String</td><td style="width: 33.3745%;">The checkout\_id received when creating a checkout object</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 33.3745%;">amount (optional)</td><td style="width: 33.3745%;">Int</td><td style="width: 33.3745%;">If an amount to be refunded is not set the whole amount will be refunded</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 33.3745%;">reason (optional)</td><td style="width: 33.3745%;">String</td><td style="width: 33.3745%;">Reason of the refund. Value admitted: "duplicate", "requested\_by\_customer" or "fraudolent"</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 33.3745%;">refundDetails (optional)</td><td style="width: 33.3745%;">String</td><td style="width: 33.3745%;">Comments about the refund. Free text</td></tr></tbody></table>

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