Transactions
Subscribe Transactions typically represent requests for funds sent to a payment processor. The Transaction object encapsulates information about the financial transaction processed through Subscribe. The Transaction request includes a Payment Method, customer Account information (including Billing Address), one or more Products or billing plans, a price amount and currency, as well as additional metadata used by the system.
Transactions are either initiated by the merchant via the Subscribe API for one-time purchases or generated by the Subscribe system as part of a recurring subscription. During processing, some Transactions may be cancelled before being submitted to a payment processor (for example, because the Subscribe fraud screening score is above a certain threshold), the rest are forwarded to a payment processor. Subscribe processes Transaction objects with your payment processor and updates their status during the process. Every capture attempt sent to the Payment processor (including attempts based on retry logic) is sent as a new Transaction. The current Transaction status is displayed within the Transaction while previous statuses are logged and can be accessed via the API or Subscribe reports.
In case when the payment capture is done by an external system, like for Merchant Acceptance Payments, the fund capture need to be registered into the system after it was received, in order to keep the subscription in a good state.
The transaction is used also for recording card validation requests or to keep data for Chargebacks.
The transaction object serves as the charge to the customer and is therefore used to reconcile settlements received from the payment processor with the aggregated data available in the Transaction Reports. Transactions can be migrated from previous customers billing systems to serve as historical data.
Use Subscribe Portal to search for Transactions, view details and activities associated with a single Transaction, or view aggregated results using Transaction reports. You may also issue refunds as appropriate or necessary against captured Transactions.
The Transactions list page displays transactions by ID,
Customer, Payment Type,
Amount, Status, and Created
Date. A summary of all the transactions included on the search results
page is displayed at the bottom of the page and is grouped by currency. This summary
includes the totals of all transactions per displayed currency and provides additional
totals, such as amounts refunded, authorized, cancelled, captured, and voided. You can
choose to download a full or partial Transaction search results list of up to 10,000
Transactions by clicking the 
Download button. The list is downloadable as a csv file and can
be viewed in a program such as Notepad or Excel.
For guidance how to search for transactions, see Filtering Transactions.
Refunds of Transactions
The Refund object provides a way to reverse a charge, refunding money to the customer. A refund can only be executed against an existing, successfully captured transaction. Refunds can be issued for any valid amount (in the currency of the original transaction) up to the as-yet un-refunded balance of the original transaction. Refunds themselves transfer funds from the merchants to the customers. Note however that it is the Refund object, not the Transaction object, that encapsulates information on refunds to your customers. The Transaction object will appear as Refunded status to inform that a refund was processed against the Transaction.
There are three refund strategies:
- Refund the full amount against the whole transaction
- Refund against Specific Transaction Items (products) in the Transaction
- Remaining balance approach that lets you refund based on the amount left from the original Transaction
Refund requests are queued into batch jobs that are sent to payment processors periodically throughout the day. If you view a Refund before its batch job is completely processed, the Refunds field will list its status as Pending. After the refund is processed the status will change to Complete.