subscription.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 full subscription-level refund settles. The subscription is always expired as a result: resource access is revoked and subscription.expired — plus member.churned when this was the subscriber's last active subscription — follows for the same 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": "subscription.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",
    "amount": "29.00",
    "full_refund": true,
    "external_payment_id": "pi_3Nxy..",
    "reason": "requested_by_customer"
  }
}

Field reference

Field	Type	Notes
`id`	string ULID	Unique event id, prefixed `evt_`. Use for idempotent processing.
`type`	string	Always `subscription.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 identifier.
`data.plan_id`	string UUID	Plan the subscription is on.
`data.subscriber_id`	string UUID	Subscriber's project-scoped user id.
`data.amount`	string	Refunded amount in major units, formatted as a string. The currency is not on this event — resolve it with `GET /v1/subscriptions/{subscription}`.
`data.full_refund`	boolean	Always `true` on this event — a partial refund emits `payment.refunded` only, where this field can be `false`.
`data.external_payment_id`	string, nullable	Provider-side id of the payment that was refunded, as the provider reported it. `null` when the provider supplied none.
`data.reason`	string \| null	Reason code from the provider; absent when not supplied.

Caveats

Emitted by Stripe, PayPal, Paystack, Razorpay and Skrill. CoinPayments and CeyPay expose no refund notification, so a refund taken there is invisible to this event.
A partial refund raises payment.refunded only. This event means the whole charge came back, and access is revoked with it.
Skrill reports a chargeback rather than a merchant refund, and only if the creator's Skrill account is configured to post one.
Subscriby expires the subscription itself on a full refund; it does not wait for the provider's own cancellation to arrive.
For per-payment refunds (no subscription mutation), see payment.refunded.

payment.refunded — payment-level analogue.
subscription.cancelled — often paired in practice.
Subscription events overview — back to family overview.