If you were wondering where the idea for MassRefunds came about, it was on the PayPal Developer forums. On this thread, Payam asked if a tool for issuing bulk refunds existed. Back then, nothing of the sort existed. Ofcourse, PayPal had a way to issue a single PayPal Refund at a time from its website. And then there existed the RefundTransaction API.
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I have been using PayPal for many years now. I started using PayPal to send / receive money from my friends to settle bills or to return money that i had borrowed. Later on, PayPal was the medium of choice to receive payments for items sold on Ebay. I loved the ease with which payments could be sent and received. While it is free to receive funds in a personal account from a bank source, receiving funds from a credit card source is not free ( PayPal fees can be seen here).
One of our customers recently wanted the ability to group PayPal transactions by a unique identifier. He wanted to use this identifier to search for these transactions at a later point in time. He already had implemented his website and completed the PayPal integration. When he contacted us and explained what he needed to do, we realized we could use either the ‘custom’ field or the ‘invoiceId’ field to group the transactions.
In the new release of MassRefunds, we provide an expanded transaction details section. Details about the transaction such as customer details ( Name, Email, Address etc) are available along with the payment details.
We have just released another version of MassRefunds. One of the features that we added is support for the Spanish language. Users can toggle between English and Spanish languages while using the application. We added support for Español to increase the appeal of the application to a wider audience.
Our friends at USBSwiper have developed a unique point of sale (POS) credit card processing application. The uniqueness comes from the fact that when you swipe your customers credit card through a USB magnetic strip credit card reader and use their software application to process it, the money for the transaction drops directly into your PayPal account instantly. Sounds cool…read on.
MassRefunds has on board Adib Motiwala, a Certified Paypal Developer. He is one of 12 PayPal Ace Developers in the world. We offer consulting services for PayPal integration such as:
In order to use MassRefunds service, you need to first register at our site. As part of registration, you need to provide us with your Paypal email address. This is the PayPal account that you want to use with our service. Do not worry, we do not need the password to your account. Infact, we recommend that you select a distinct password for your MassRefunds.com account.
PayPal allows you to refund your buyer within 60 days of the original payment. You can issue both full and partial refunds. Paypal also credits the original transaction fees back to you. When issuing partial refunds, a portion of the original fees paid will be returned to you.
So what are the steps to do a refund on PayPal.
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Issuing partial refunds using MassRefunds is equally easy. You can paste ( type ) the transaction ID followed by a comma ( , ) and then the refund amount into the space on the ‘Partial Refunds’ page. You can do this for multiple transactions by following the same format for a transaction, one on each line. If you prefer to collect all such transactions to be refunded and issue refunds at one go, you can save them in a txt file which can be uploaded. The format of the file is the same explained above ( transaction ID , refund amount).