payment.refunded

Fires only for a settled refund. A refund a provider has queued but not yet paid out raises nothing — access is never revoked for money that has not actually moved.

When this fires

A per-payment refund settles. Pairs with subscription.refunded when the refund covers the entire subscription.

Required ability

project-subscription:view — token must carry this at mint time to subscribe an endpoint to this event.

Payload

{
  "id": "evt_01HX...",
  "type": "payment.refunded",
  "created_at": "2026-05-20T10:05:00Z",
  "api_version": "2026-05-01",
  "project_id": "7f3d1c92-8b45-4e6a-9d21-5c8e0a4b6f13",
  "data": {
    "subscription_id": "5b7e2d40-1a86-4c39-97f2-e83d0b16c5a4",
    "plan_id": "c4e82f16-93a7-4d5b-b81c-6e0f27a94d3b",
    "subscriber_id": "2a91c4e7-6f38-4b52-8e0d-9c1a7b3f5d80",
    "external_payment_id": "pi_3Nxy..",
    "amount": "29.00",
    "full_refund": true
  }
}

Field reference

Field	Type	Notes
`id`	string ULID	Unique event id, prefixed `evt_`. Use for idempotent processing.
`type`	string	Always `payment.refunded` for this event.
`created_at`	ISO 8601 timestamp	Server-side emission time.
`api_version`	string	Webhook API contract version.
`project_id`	string UUID	Project this event belongs to.
`data.subscription_id`	string UUID	Subscription the original payment belonged to.
`data.plan_id`	string UUID	Plan the subscription was on.
`data.subscriber_id`	string UUID	Subscriber's project-scoped user id.
`data.external_payment_id`	string \| null	Provider charge id that was refunded. `null` when the provider's refund payload carried no originating charge id (Razorpay).
`data.amount`	string	Refunded amount in major units of the subscription's currency, as a decimal string. The currency itself is not carried on this event — resolve it from the plan or from the preceding `payment.succeeded`.
`data.full_refund`	boolean	`true` when the refund unwinds the whole charge. A full refund additionally emits `subscription.refunded` and immediately revokes access; a partial one does not.
`data.reason`	string \| undefined	Provider-supplied refund reason, or `chargeback` for reversals. Omitted entirely when the provider supplied none — never sent as `null`.

Caveats

Emitted by Stripe, PayPal, Paystack, Razorpay and Skrill. CoinPayments and CeyPay expose no refund notification.
Raised for partial refunds as well as full ones. Read full_refund to tell them apart — a partial refund leaves the subscription and its access untouched.
Stripe reports a running total across refunds; the amount here is this refund, not the cumulative figure.
Distinct from subscription.refunded, which represents the subscription's reaction. A refund may emit only payment.refunded if the subscription itself is unaffected.
Partial refunds are represented by amount being less than the original charge.

payment.succeeded — predecessor.
subscription.refunded — subscription-level analogue.
Payment events overview — back to family overview.