# Retrieve a refund

Operation ID: `getRefund`

Group: Accounting › Refunds

[Open in the interactive reference](https://docs.api.lensing.ai/lensing/v1/endpoints/getRefund)

`GET /accounting/refunds/{id}`

Read-only: Reads and returns; changes nothing.

Retrieves a refund. Use the refund's id, not its refundNumber.

GET accounting/refunds and POST accounting/refunds/search return the same fields for each refund.

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Api-Version` | header | string · 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 of the refund you want to retrieve. Example: `"3b7d5e9c-1a24-4f80-9c6d-2e8f70b13a45"`. |

## Response

`200` Success

Under `data` (getRefundOutput):

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | yes | The unique identifier for the refund. Example: `"3b7d5e9c-1a24-4f80-9c6d-2e8f70b13a45"`. |
| `refundNumber` | string | no | The refund number, unique within the tenant, for example 'REF-1042'. Assigned on create. Example: `"REF-1042"`. |
| `refundDate` | date | yes | The date the refund was issued. Format YYYY-MM-DD. Example: `"2026-08-01"`. |
| `approvalStatus` | string | no | The approval status. Possible values: 'draft', 'pendingApproval', 'revise', 'approved', 'rejected'. A refund created through POST accounting/refunds is approved immediately. Example: `"approved"`. |
| `refundType` | string | yes | The payment method used for the refund. Possible values: 'check', 'ach', 'wire', 'creditCard', 'directDebit', 'sepaCreditTransfer'. Example: `"ach"`. |
| `currency` | string | yes | The currency of the refund. Every amount on it is in this currency. Format ISO 4217, for example 'USD'. Example: `"USD"`. |
| `amount` | decimal | yes | The refund amount, in the refund currency. Example: `"150.00"`. |
| `unappliedAmount` | decimal | no | The unapplied balance remaining on the source payment, in the refund currency. Example: `"0.00"`. |
| `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. Example: `"9c2a6a10-7d34-4c8e-9b21-5a0f3e6d81b7"`. |
| `customerName` | string | no | The name of the customer receiving the refund. Example: `"Northwind Traders"`. |
| `entityId` | string | yes | The legal entity issuing the refund. See id on GET base/entities. Example: `"1a24d5e9-3b7d-4f80-9c6d-2e8f70b13a45"`. |
| `paymentId` | string | yes | The source payment being refunded. See id on GET accounting/payments/:id. Example: `"5a0f3e6d-81b7-4c8e-9b21-9c2a6a107d34"`. |
| `paymentNumber` | string | no | The number of the source payment being refunded. Example: `"PMT-7781"`. |
| `lastModifiedDate` | date-time | yes | The date and time the refund last changed, in UTC. Format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ. Example: `"2026-08-01T09:12:44.000Z"`. |

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "3b7d5e9c-1a24-4f80-9c6d-2e8f70b13a45",
    "refundNumber": "REF-1042",
    "refundDate": "2026-08-01",
    "approvalStatus": "approved",
    "refundType": "ach",
    "currency": "USD",
    "amount": "150.00",
    "unappliedAmount": "0.00",
    "refundNote": "<refundNote>",
    "customerId": "9c2a6a10-7d34-4c8e-9b21-5a0f3e6d81b7",
    "customerName": "Northwind Traders",
    "entityId": "1a24d5e9-3b7d-4f80-9c6d-2e8f70b13a45",
    "paymentId": "5a0f3e6d-81b7-4c8e-9b21-9c2a6a107d34",
    "paymentNumber": "PMT-7781",
    "lastModifiedDate": "2026-08-01T09:12:44.000Z"
  },
  "diagnostics": [
    {
      "code": "<code>",
      "message": "<message>",
      "severity": "error",
      "path": [
        "<path>"
      ],
      "details": "<details>"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Errors

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

## Statuses

- `400` — Invalid request or business failure. Codes: NOT_FOUND
- `401` — The request carries no valid access token.
- `403` — Not authorized
- `404` — Not found
- `429` — Too many requests from this client address. The response has no body and no `Retry-After` header.
- `500` — Internal server error