Method: purchases.subscriptions.refund
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Deprecated: Use orders.refund instead. Refunds a user's subscription purchase, but the subscription remains valid until its expiration time and it will continue to recur.
HTTP request
POST https://androidpublisher.googleapis.com/androidpublisher/v3/applications/{packageName}/purchases/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/tokens/{token}:refund
The URL uses gRPC Transcoding
syntax.
Path parameters
| Parameters |
packageName
|
string
The package name of the application for which this subscription was purchased (for example, 'com.some.thing').
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subscriptionId
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string
"The purchased subscription ID (for example, 'monthly001').
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token
|
string
The token provided to the user's device when the subscription was purchased.
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Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body is empty.
Sample
The following is a sample request:
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Authorization scopes
Requires the following OAuth scope:
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https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher
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Last updated 2025-06-02 UTC.
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