A simple guide on how to issue and retrieve refunds in Square
Reviewing, issuing and managing refunds is a challenge at almost any level of scale. The challenge compounds when you start working with multiple POS integrations.
This month, IntegrationOS released support for two market-leading POS providers - Square and Clover. With the release, we wanted to publish a guide showcasing a simple example of how unifying refund data can save hours of time on your next POS integration.
In this guide, we're going to be executing a simple workflow:
This guide uses endpoints that can be found within IntegrationOS' public Postman Collection.
Start by using the List Payments endpoint to retrieve the Payment ID of the payment you'd like to refund:
Next, we'll use the Create Refund endpoint with a specified Payment ID.
Finally, we're able to run a few queries in order to list refunds or get a single refund from a POS system
List all Refunds
To get a list of all existing refunds, we can use the List Refunds endpoint
Get a single Refund
You're also able to retrieve a specific Refund by providing the Refund ID of a previously executed refund:
This example uses Square to showcase how to manipulate Refund data. It starts to become increasingly valuable from a developer efficiency standup when you start to overlay additional POS systems into your integration ecosystem, while using the same endpoints and logic.
Have questions about this post or want to know more about the Refund API? Reach out to us on X or schedule some time with our solutions engineering team.
