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PayPal refund timeouts can cause app-to-customer discrepancies

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A technical guide addresses an issue where an application might incorrectly report a failed PayPal refund due to a timeout. When a refund request to PayPal succeeds but the confirmation response is lost, the application retries with the same idempotency key. PayPal then responds with a 422 Unprocessable Entity error, specifically indicating CAPTURE_FULLY_REFUNDED because the capture was already refunded. The guide advises developers to parse the specific error details rather than relying solely on the status code, and to implement a reconciliation process to verify the refund status externally before marking it as failed. AI

IMPACT Developers can use this guidance to improve the reliability of payment processing integrations.

RANK_REASON Technical guide on handling specific API error scenarios.

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PayPal refund timeouts can cause app-to-customer discrepancies

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · FetchSandbox ·

    Your PayPal Refund Worked. Your Lovable App Says It Failed.

    <p>Your app called PayPal's refund endpoint. PayPal completed the operation, but the <code>201 Created</code> response never reached your server.</p> <p>The app retries and receives <code>422 CAPTURE_FULLY_REFUNDED</code>. If the handler treats every non-2xx response as a failed …

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