Paypal fees & refunds

Hi everyone

Just about to start listing in my shop and thinking about postage. I was considering offering free postage over a certain value but someone pointed out that when you refund from PayPal/Stripe you don’t get the fees back. Has anyone thought of a way round this or should I just avoid refunds?

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Another thing to consider is that Stripe can take quite a while to complete/ process refunds, so it’s not an instant cash back/ discount for customers.
I would avoid making refunding as a discount a common occurrence, especially as customers can still cancel the whole order and want a full refund.

That’s helpful, thank you. I’ve decided to just try having free postage for additional items and see how that goes. Easier on my brain :grin:

If you do the Stripe refund immediately it is refunded immediately. By that I think I mean within the same working day before the banks have done their overnight batch processing.

Thanks Joy, that’s good to know.

Thanks Joy, that’s definitely useful info!

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