Cancel refund
Last updated: 21-Oct-2025
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Overview
Use the cancelRefund method to issue a total refund for an order processed by 2Checkout.
Requested parameters
This method allows you to cancel a refund initiated from the cPanel or to decline a refund initiated by the shopper from myAccount.
The status of the refund needs to be PENDING or APPROVED.
The refund can be cancelled in up to 2 hours from the initiation.
Request sample
<?php
declare(strict_types=1);
class Configuration
{
public const MERCHANT_CODE = 'AVANGATE';
public const MERCHANT_KEY = 'SECRET_KEY';
public const URL = 'http://api.avangate.local/rpc/6.0';
public const ACTION = 'cancelRefund';
public const ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS = null;
public const ORDER_REF = '73152889';
//array or JSON
public const PAYLOAD = null;
}
class Client
{
private const LOGIN_METHOD = 'login';
private $calls = 1;
private $sessionId;
private function generateAuth(): array
{
$merchantCode = Configuration::MERCHANT_CODE;
$key = Configuration::MERCHANT_KEY;
$date = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
$string = strlen($merchantCode) . $merchantCode . strlen($date) . $date;
$hash = hash_hmac('md5', $string, $key);
return compact('merchantCode', 'date', 'hash');
}
public function login(string $url)
{
$payload = $this->generateAuth();
$response = $this->call($url, array_values($payload), self::LOGIN_METHOD);
$this->sessionId = $response['result'];
}
public function call(
string $url = Configuration::URL,
$payload = Configuration::PAYLOAD,
string $action = Configuration::ACTION
): ?array {
if (empty($this->sessionId) && $action !== self::LOGIN_METHOD) {
$this->login($url);
}
if (is_string($payload)) {
$payload = json_decode($payload, true);
}
if (!empty($this->sessionId)) {
$payload = [$this->sessionId, Configuration::ORDER_REF, $payload];
}
$payload = array_filter($payload);
$request = json_encode([
'jsonrpc' => '2.0',
'method' => $action,
'params' => $payload,
'id' => $this->calls++,
]);
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt(
$curl,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
['Content-Type: application/json', 'Accept: application/json', 'Cookie: XDEBUG_SESSION=PHPSTORM']
);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
if (empty($response)) {
die('Server unavailable');
}
echo $response . '</br>';
return json_decode($response, true);;
}
}
$client = new Client();
$result = $client->call();
var_dump($result);
Response
Response | Type/Description |
RefundID | The ID generated for this refund. |
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