Using API to refund legacy payments - possible?

scp2
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Hi all,

 

We're still using the old-school method of capturing payment on our website (POSTing data to "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" with a "cmd=_xclick" value). This works well for us, so we've had no urgency to switch over to a more modern method (e.g. invoking the Orders API endpoint).

 

After payment is made, we manage these transactions internally by grabbing the transaction details using the Sync API - again, this works well.

 

I've been looking into ways in which we can use an API to refund these payments, but have hit a brick wall. I have found none that will issue a refund anchored on the transaction ID, which is all I have (I don't have a sale ID or capture ID).

 

Is it possible to refund these types of payments using any kind of API PayPal offers?

 

Thanks for any help.

 

 

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scp2
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Found it. Classic NVP/SOAP API. Deprecated, but still working.

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