Learn how to issue a refund using Magento
These steps will cover:
1) How to find the Stripe URL under a Magento Order, to issue the refund via your Stripe account.
2) For offline payments, the last section will showcase how to manually issue a Credit Memo to refund a Magento Order.
Process a Refund for an Online Order with Stripe
- From your Magento dashboard, in the navigation menu on the left side of the page, click Sales | Orders.
- All Orders processed on your website will appear here.
- All Orders processed on your website will appear here.
- Next to the order you want to refund, click View in the Action column.
- Scroll down to the payment details. You’ll see the Firework payment URL and the Stripe payment URL at the bottom of the page.
- Copy the Stripe Payment Details URL and to then paste in your browser to navigate to your Stripe account to process the refund.
- In your Stripe dashboard, click Refund at the top right. Verify the refund amount and select a reason for the refund in the drop-down menu. Then, click the Refund button.
- In your timeline, you’ll see “Successfully refunded” payment once completed.
Note: Refunds take 5-10 days to appear on a customer’s statement.
If you see “Partial refund” in gray next to the refund amount, this is the refunded amount less transaction costs.
Process a Refund in Magento for Offline Payment
- Click Credit Memo at the top of the order page.
- Click the Refund Offline button at the bottom-right of the page.
Whatever you type in the Credit Memo Comments box will be emailed to the customer. This is a great place to add the Transaction ID, for example. Select the checkbox next to Append Comments to have additional comments emailed to the customer.