To reverse or refund a payment processed through the payment gateway you must complete the following steps.
- Create negative payment on opportunity with refund details
- Update Opportunity to Closed Lost
- Update Receipt to Cancelled and notify donor
- Refund Payment in iATS
Find Payment
- Navigate to the donation (Opportunity) record in Salesforce
- Go to the Credit Card payment record
- Go to the Reference number and copy the iATS transaction ID
Update Donation records
The actual Opportunity amount is still shows the total amount, so it’s important to change the stage to Closed Lost as we did to ensure that does not get included in reports (but you are still aware of what was lost).
If you issued a partial refund update the Opportunity Amount.
Update Receipt
If a receipt was issued, you should update the receipt status to
"Cancelled", and notify the donor of the cancelled receipt #.
Refund in iATS
Login to the iats portal
Go to Reports > Journal
Enter the following for a Quick Search:
Search | Enter the transaction ID from the Payment record in Salesforce |
In | Transaction ID |
From | The day of the transaction |
Select the payment and perform a full or partial refund from the iATS portal, and then create a negative payment in the same amount against that opportunity record in Salesforce.