# Refund Payment

```
POST 
/payments/:id/refund
```

Returns funds from a completed payment back to the customer's original payment method.

**Refund options:**

* **Full refund**: Return the entire payment amount
* **Partial refund**: Specify an amount less than the original payment
* **Multiple partial refunds**: Issue several partial refunds until the total payment amount is reached

**Limitations:**

* You can only refund payments that have been successfully processed
* A payment can only be refunded up to its original amount
* Once fully refunded, a payment cannot be refunded again
* Attempting to refund more than the remaining available amount will result in an error

## Request[​](#request "Direct link to request")

## Responses[​](#responses "Direct link to Responses")

* 200
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* 404
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* 500
* 503

A payment object

The request is incorrect or could not be processed

Unauthorized error. Please check your auth credentials

The specified resource was not found

The request was well-formed but could not be processed due to semantic errors

Unexpected server error

The service is temporarily unavailable