# Get Refund

`GET /accounting/refunds/{id}`

Group: Accounting › Refunds · Operation ID: `getRefund`

Returns the refund with the given identifier. Use the refund's id, not its refundNumber.

The refund returned here has the same fields as GET accounting/refunds and POST accounting/refunds/search.

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## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Api-Version` | header | `"v1"` | yes | The API version this request targets, named by its public identifier. Required on every request; omitting it, or naming a version this company does not have, is answered with 400. This document describes version `v1`. |
| `id` | path | string | yes | The unique identifier for the refund to return. |

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data` (getRefundOutput):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the refund. |
| `refundNumber` | string | no | The refund number, unique within the tenant, for example 'REF-1042'. Assigned on create. |
| `refundDate` | string (date) | yes | The date the refund was issued. Format YYYY-MM-DD. |
| `approvalStatus` | string | no | The approval status. Possible values: 'draft', 'pendingApproval', 'revise', 'approved', 'rejected'. A refund created through POST accounting/refunds is approved immediately. |
| `refundType` | string | yes | The payment method used for the refund. Possible values: 'check', 'ach', 'wire', 'creditCard', 'directDebit', 'sepaCreditTransfer'. |
| `currency` | string | yes | The currency of the refund. Every amount on it is in this currency. Format ISO 4217, for example 'USD'. |
| `amount` | string (decimal) | yes | The refund amount, in the refund currency. |
| `unappliedAmount` | string (decimal) | no | The unapplied balance remaining on the source payment, in the refund currency. |
| `refundNote` | string | no | A free-form note attached to the refund. Absent when none was set. |
| `customerId` | string | yes | The customer receiving the refund. See id on GET accounting/customers/:id. |
| `customerName` | string | no | The name of the customer receiving the refund. |
| `entityId` | string | yes | The legal entity issuing the refund. See id on GET base/entities. |
| `paymentId` | string | yes | The source payment being refunded. See id on GET accounting/payments/:id. |
| `paymentNumber` | string | no | The number of the source payment being refunded. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | string (date-time) | yes | The date and time the refund last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. |

## Errors

| Code | Status |
| --- | --- |
| `NOT_FOUND` | 400 |

## Statuses

- `400` — Invalid request or business failure. Codes: NOT_FOUND
- `401` — Missing or invalid access token
- `403` — Not authorized
- `404` — Not found
- `429` — Too many requests
- `500` — Internal server error