# Create referenced refund

`POST /payments/{paymentId}/refund`

Use this method to refund a payment that is in a closed batch.  

To refund a payment, you need its paymentId. Our gateway returned the paymentId in the response of the [Create Payment](https://docs.payroc.com/api/schema/card-payments/payments/create) method.  

**Note:** If you don't have the paymentId, use our [List Payments](https://docs.payroc.com/api/schema/card-payments/payments/list) method to search for the payment.  

If your refund is successful, our gateway returns the payment amount to the cardholder's account.  

**Things to consider**  

- If the merchant refunds a payment that is in an open batch, our gateway reverses the payment.
- Some merchants can run unreferenced refunds, which means that they don't need a paymentId to return an amount to a customer. For more information about how to run an unreferenced refund, go to [Create Refund](https://docs.payroc.com/api/schema/card-payments/refunds/create-unreferenced-refund).