Glossary: Refund
Refund – it’s the money (or its transfer) which a customer receives from a merchant after making a complaint. The whole process usually looks like this:
- a merchant receives a complaint from a customer
- after analyzing the complaint, the merchant decides whether to refund the whole transaction, just part of it or refuse to give back any money at all
- if the merchant decides to refund, it makes a proper request-usually instructions are passed to the acquiring bank via PSP
- the acquiring bank contacts the issuing bank, which pays the money to the customer