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How do I refund a full/partial membership payment or cancel a subscription?
How do I refund a full/partial membership payment or cancel a subscription?

Refund full or partial membership payment, freeze instalment payments or cancel further subscriptions where applicable.

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Written by Declan Murphy
Updated over a week ago

Refund Full Amount

To begin the process login to the ClubZap admin portal and select the Membership link from the menu and select the "Members" button. 

  1. Search for the member name you wish to cancel/refund.

  2. In the Membership details section click on the membership id:

  3. Select one of the following

  • Refund full amount - This will return the amount paid to date to your payers bank account and terminate any further subscription payments. Confirming the refund will see the the member(s) associated with this payment removed from the member list and their previous payment will show as refunded in the "Refunded Memberships" table.

  • Pause - This will pause future subscription payments for this payer until you manually resume the subscription. Confirming the freezing of payments will see the the member(s) associated with this payment removed from the member list and their status will show as paused in the "Paused Subscriptions" table.

  • Cancel Subscription - This terminates any future subscription payments. Confirming the cancellation of future payments will see the the member(s) associated with this payment remain in the member list and their status will show as "Subscription Cancelled" with details of the successful instalments completed (e.g: Subscription cancelled (1/4)).

  • Receipt - View the receipt for the payments to date.

  • Resend Receipt - Email the receipt to the payer


Refund Nominal Amount (Partial Refund)

This allows you to refund a nominal amount of money paid. In the Payments section click on the Refund button.

The amount to be refunded must be less or equal to the amount paid to date.

Note: You can also go directly to Membership -> Membership Sales and select the payment you wish to refund or stop if you know the payer name but make sure it is for the correct member if duplicate names exist.

If you hover over the partial refunds it will indicate the amount refunded:


View refunded memberships

  1. To begin the process login to the admin portal and select the Membership link from the menu and select the "Membership Sales" button. 

  2. View the table under the header "Refunded Memberships"


How is payment refunded for memberships

Financial reimbursement is done using the Refund button on the ClubZap dashboard which triggers a call to to Stripe which executes the refund provided their is sufficient funds in your clubs Stripe account.


How Stripe Refunds Work

Stripe submit any refund you make to your customer’s bank immediately. However, it may take anywhere up to ten business days for your customers bank to process the refund and for the funds to be returned to the account.

In some cases - usually where a refund has been issues in quick succession after the original charge - the refund request may go through in the form of a reversal. In this case, the original payment will simply ‘drop off’ the customers statement, rather than an additional line item appearing.

If your customer has not seen the original charge being reversed or refunded after ten days, we’d recommend asking them to contact their bank directly to ensure that this is resolved.

Should the refund fail to be processed by the bank we will receive a notification and will return the funds to your bank automatically. This process can take up to thirty days, but we will update the relevant charge details and provide a webhook should this occur.

You can refund charges made to your account, either in whole or in part. Refunds use your available Stripe balance—this doesn’t include any pending balance. If your available balance doesn’t cover the amount of the refund, Stripe debits the remaining amount from your bank account.

​​If Stripe can’t debit the remaining amount from your bank account, your refunds may go into a pending status until you add funds to your Stripe balance. You can view a list of all your pending refunds in the Dashboard.

A negative balance occurs when the cost of refunds, disputes, or fees exceeds the available balance. Your business will not be able to send refunds to customers until the issue is resolved. To fix a negative balance, Stripe may automatically initiate an account debit from the bank account on file within two business days.

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