How to Refund a Customer

2 min read·Updated June 2026

Need to send a customer their money back? You can do it in just a couple of clicks from your Payments page — and there are two easy ways to get there.

TL;DR
  • Open your Payments page and click the customer’s payment.
  • Or open the order’s receipt and click the payment link — it takes you straight there.
  • Click Begin refund, and the money goes back to how they paid.

Option 1: From the Payments page

  1. Open Payments

    Go to your Payments page.

  2. Click the customer’s payment

    Find and click the payment from the customer you want to refund.

  3. Click “Begin refund”

    Click Begin refund and confirm. The refund is sent back to the customer’s original payment method.

Option 2: From the order

  1. Open the order and click the receipt

    On the order itself, click the receipt.

  2. Click the payment link

    On the receipt, click into the Payments link — it takes you directly to that payment.

  3. Click “Begin refund”

    From there, click Begin refund to send the money back.

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Both routes end up in the same placeWhether you start from Payments or from the order’s receipt, you’ll land on that customer’s payment with the Begin refund button.
The customer payment screen in Thryft Ship showing the Begin refund button
On the customer’s payment, click Begin refund to send the money back.

Common questions

Where does the refund go?

Back to the customer’s original payment method — the same card or bank account they paid with.

The refund button isn’t working — what now?

A few things can hold up a refund. See Why can’t I refund my customer?

How is this different from refunding a shipping label?

Refunding a customer sends back what they paid you. Refunding a label is about unused USPS postage — see How do I refund my shipping label?