issuePartialRefund

This call allows a seller to issue a partial refund to a buyer to help resolve an eBay Buyer Protection Significantly Not As Described case. The partial refund amount must have approval from the buyer before issuePartialRefund is used. The offerPartialRefund call can be used to propose a partial refund amount to the buyer. The issuePartialRefund call can only be successfully used if the payment method is PayPal.

Request Details

In the issuePartialRefund request, the seller must provide the case ID and the case type (always EBP_SNAD for this call) for the case upon which a partial refund will be issued. If the caseId.id and caseId.type values don't match, the request is processed (if caseId.id is valid) but a warning message is returned.

If not already known, the case ID for an eBay Buyer Protection case can be retrieved with a call to getUserCases. If you make this call, use the EBP_SNAD case type filter to restrict results to Significantly Not As Described cases. To get more detailed information on an eBay Buyer Protection case, you will want to call getEBPCaseDetail, using the same case ID in the request.

The amount of the refund and the currency used are required. The currency type is passed in as a currencyCode attribute of amount. In order for the call to be successful, the amount value must match the partial refund amount accepted by the buyer, and the currencyCode attribute value must match the currency type used in the original transaction.

There is an optional comments field that allows the seller to provide any relevant comments to the buyer.

Working with the Response

The response for issuePartialRefund includes the standard fields for a successful call, which are timestamp and version. If they occur, errors and/or warnings will be returned in an errorMessage container.

issuePartialRefund Input

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issuePartialRefund Output

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See also Samples.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<issuePartialRefundResponse xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/resolution/v1/services">
  <!-- (No call-specific Output fields) -->

  <!-- Standard Output Fields -->
  <ack> AckValue </ack>
  <errorMessage> ErrorMessage
    <error> ErrorData
      <category> ErrorCategory </category>
      <domain> string </domain>
      <errorId> long </errorId>
      <exceptionId> token </exceptionId>
      <message> string </message>
      <parameter name="string"> ErrorParameter (string) </parameter>
      <!-- ... more parameter values allowed here ... -->
      <severity> ErrorSeverity </severity>
      <subdomain> string </subdomain>
    </error>
    <!-- ... more error nodes allowed here ... -->
  </errorMessage>
  <timestamp> dateTime </timestamp>
  <version> string </version>
</issuePartialRefundResponse>

Return Value	Type	Occurrence	Meaning

(No call-specific fields)

Standard Output Fields

ack	AckValue	Always	Applicable values: • Failure eBay encountered a fatal error during the processing of the request, causing the request to fail. When a serious application-level error occurs, the error is returned instead of the business data. • PartialFailure eBay successfully processed the request, but one or more non-fatal errors occurred during the processing. Inspect the message details and resolve any problems before resubmitting the request. • Success eBay successfully processed the request and the business data is returned in the response. Note that it is possible for a response to return Success, but still not contain the expected data in the result. • Warning The request that triggered the error was processed successfully but with one or more warnings.
errorMessage	ErrorMessage	Conditionally	Information for an error or warning that occurred when eBay processed the request. This field is not returned if the ack value is Success.
errorMessage.error	ErrorData	Conditionally, repeatable: [0..*]	Details about a single error.
errorMessage.error.category	ErrorCategory	Conditionally	There are three categories of errors: request errors, application errors, and system errors. Applicable values: • Application An error occurred due to a problem with the request, with the most likely source being the application sending the request. For example, the request is missing a required data element or it contains an invalid field. The problem must be corrected before the request can be resent. Inspect the error message to find the cause of the problem. If the problem is due to an application error, modify the application and resend the request. If the error is due to invalid data, the source of the data must be corrected before you resend the resend request to eBay. • Request An error occurred due to a problem with the request, with the most likely source being missing or invalid data in the request. The problem must be corrected before the request can be retried. Inspect the error message to find the cause of the problem. If the problem is a result of end-user data, alert the end-user to the problem and provide the means for them to correct the problem. Once the problem is resolved, resend the request to eBay. • System Indicates that an error has occurred on the eBay system side. For example, a database or server could be down. Inspect the error message to find the cause of the problem. If the problem is on the eBay side, an application can retry the request a reasonable number of times (eBay recommends twice). If the error persists, contact Developer Technical Support. Once the problem has been resolved, the request may be resent in its original form.
errorMessage.error.domain	string	Conditionally	Name of the domain in which the error occurred.
errorMessage.error.errorId	long	Conditionally	A unique code that identifies the particular error condition that occurred. Your application can use error codes as identifiers in your customized error-handling algorithms.
errorMessage.error.exceptionId	token	Conditionally	Unique identifier for an exception associated with an error.
errorMessage.error.message	string	Conditionally	A detailed description of the condition that caused the error.
errorMessage.error.parameter	ErrorParameter (string)	Conditionally, repeatable: [0..*]	Various warning and error messages return one or more variables that contain contextual information about the error. This is often the field or value that triggered the error.
errorMessage.error.parameter [ attribute name ]	string	Conditionally	The name of the input parameter returned with the error. Inspecting the parameter (or its input value) will often aid in understanding the cause of the error. Not all error messages contain this value.
errorMessage.error.severity	ErrorSeverity	Conditionally	Indicates whether the reported problem is fatal (an error) or is less- severe (a warning). Review the error message details for information on the cause. If the request fails and the application is the source of the error (for example, a required element is missing), update the application before you retry the request. If the problem is due to incorrect user data, alert the end-user to the problem and provide the means for them to correct the data. Once the problem in the application or data is resolved, re-send the request to eBay. If the source of the problem is on eBay's side, you can retry the request a reasonable number of times (eBay recommends you try the request twice). If the error persists, contact Developer Technical Support. Once the problem has been resolved, you can resend the request in its original form. If a warning occurs, warning information is returned in addition to the business data. Normally, you do not need to resend the request (as the original request was successful). However, depending on the cause of the warning, you might need to contact the end user, or eBay, to effect a long term solution to the problem. Applicable values: • Error eBay encountered a fatal error during the processing of the request, causing the request to fail. When eBay encounters an error, it returns error data instead of the requested business data. Inspect the error details and resolve the problem before resubmitting the request. • Warning The request was successfully processed, but eBay encountered a non-fatal error during the processing that could affect the data returned. For example, eBay might have changed the value of an input field. In this case, eBay returns a successful response, but it also returns a warning. For best results, requests should return without warnings. Inspect the warning details and resolve the problem before resubmitting the request.
errorMessage.error.subdomain	string	Conditionally	Name of the subdomain in which the error occurred.
timestamp	dateTime	Always	This value represents the date and time when eBay processed the request. The time zone of this value is GMT and the format is the ISO 8601 date and time format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSZ). See Time Values in the eBay Web Services guide for information about this time format and converting to and from the GMT time zone.
version	string	Always	The version of the response payload schema. Indicates the version of the schema that eBay used to process the request.

issuePartialRefund Samples

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Note: Some data in these samples might no longer be active. If necessary, you can substitute current data in your requests.

Sample: Basic Call

This call is used by a seller to issue a partial refund to the buyer as a way to resolve a Significantly Not As Described case.

Description

This issuePartialRefund call sample issues a partial refund to the buyer as a way to resolve an open eBay Buyer Protection Significantly Not As Described case. The case ID, case type, and the amount of the partial refund are required input fields. The comments field is optional. This call can only be used if the payment method for the transaction is PayPal.

This call will fail if an invalid case ID is passed in. If the case ID does not match the case type that is passed in, a warning message will be returned in the request, but the call will succeed (if case ID is valid). This call will also fail if the buyer has not yet accepted the partial refund amount from the seller, or if the dollar amount or currency type passed into the amount field does not match what was offered and accepted by the buyer. The caller must be authenticated to make this call.

This call only returns the standard output fields to indicate a successful call.

Input

A US seller has offered a partial refund amount of $5.00 that was accepted by the buyer. The seller is now going to issue the buyer a $5.00 refund in US Dollars.

The case ID is 5000251035. 'EBP_SNAD' is passed in as the caseId.type value. '5.0' is passed into the amount field, along with the currencyCode attribute value of 'USD'. The string, "Here is your $5.00 partial refund." is passed into the comments field, and this will appear as a comment to the buyer in the Resolution Center.

XML format (HTTP POST). Also available are the .txt version of this XML and the SOAP equivalent.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<issuePartialRefundRequest xmlns:"http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/resolution/v1/services">
  <RequesterCredentials>
    <eBayAuthToken>ABC...123</eBayAuthToken>
  </RequesterCredentials>
  <caseId>
    <id>5000251035</id>
    <type>EBP_SNAD</type>
  </caseId>
  <amount currencyCode="USD">5.0</amount>
  <!--Optional:-->
  <comments>Here is your $5.00 partial refund.</comments>
</issuePartialRefundRequest>

Output

The seller's partial refund of $5.00 US Dollars is successful as indicated by the Success value in the ack field.

XML format. Also available are the .txt version of this XML and the SOAP equivalent.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<issuePartialRefundResponse xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/resolution/v1/services">
   <ack>Success</ack>
   <version>1.3.0</version>
   <timestamp>2011-03-18T13:36:23.563Z</timestamp>
</issuePartialRefundResponse>

issuePartialRefund Change History

Version	Description
1.3.0 2011-05-26	(added) New call

User-Contributed Notes

amount	Money (decimal)	Required	The seller enters the amount of the partial refund that is being offered to the buyer. This amount is in the currency used by the listing site. This amount must be identical to the amount offered through the offerPartialRefund call.
caseId	CaseIdType	Required	This container is used to identify a specific eBay Buyer Protection case opened by a buyer in the eBay Resolution Center.
caseId.id	string	Required	Unique identifier of the case. The caseId.id value is required in the request of every call except getVersion. The caseId.id value for a case is always returned in the caseSummary container of the getUserCases and getEBPCaseDetail calls. Max length: 38.
caseId.type	CaseType	Required	eBay case type. Case types include eBay Buyer Protection and PayPal Buyer Protection cases (opened through the Resolution Center), older disputes created through other sites, and Unpaid Item or Cancel Transaction disputes created through the Resolution Center or with the AddDispute call of the Trading API. Applicable values: • EBP_SNAD A Significantly Not As Described case opened by a buyer in the Resolution Center. (Not all values in CaseType apply to this field.)
comments	string	Optional	This optional field allows the seller to add a comment regarding the partial refund. For example, the seller might add a comment such as this in the field: "Here is your $10 partial refund that we both agreed upon." This comment is intended to be read by the buyer. Max length: 1000.

eBay Resolution Case Management API Call Reference Version 1.3.0