{"id":3273,"date":"2016-05-09T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2016-05-09T13:14:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T17:14:18","slug":"what-are-double-refunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/what-are-double-refunds\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT ARE DOUBLE REFUNDS?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Double refunds are when a customer is provided with two refunds for the same transaction. Chargebacks can be involved in a double refund.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Double Refunds Happen When:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Chargebacks are filed after a refund is issued.<\/strong><\/em> The consumer contacts the merchant and requests a refund, but the funds aren\u2019t returned immediately. The consumer thinks the request for the refund was ignored and files a chargeback. Then both the chargeback and the refund are being processed.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Chargebacks are filed before a refund is issued.<\/strong><\/em> The consumer calls the bank and initiates a chargeback. Then, the consumer calls the merchant and expresses dissatisfaction. To try to avoid a chargeback, the merchant provides a refund. However, the merchant has no idea of the fact that a chargeback has already been filed because the consumer calls the bank first<\/p>\n<p>Even thou a merchant provided a refund with a customer that doesn\u2019t guarantee that a chargeback won\u2019t be initiated. Same thing with chargeback that has been filed doesn\u2019t guarantee that customer won\u2019t contact the merchant and demand a refund as well.<\/p>\n<p>Just because a merchant provided a customer with a refund that doesn\u2019t guarantee that a chargeback won\u2019t be initiated. Same thing with chargeback that has been filed doesn\u2019t guarantee that customer won\u2019t contact the merchant and demand a refund as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is possible for the customer to receive a double refund for the one purchase transaction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double refunds are when a customer is provided with two refunds for the same transaction. Chargebacks can be involved in<\/p>\n<div id=\"more-button\"><a class=\"btn btn-more excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/what-are-double-refunds\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,139],"tags":[199,1161,622,608,84,1147,212],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-practices-for-merchants","category-travel-agency-agents","tag-bank","tag-chargebacks","tag-consumer","tag-customer","tag-merchant","tag-refunds","tag-transaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}