Checking refund history for multiple transactions

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Created Jul ’24

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As of the latest available information, Apple does not directly provide an endpoint for checking refund history for multiple transactions in a single request via their App Store Server API. The endpoint

https://api.storekit.itunes.apple.com/inApps/v2/refund/lookup/{transactionId}

allows you to check the refund status for a single transaction ID at a time. What if you have 8000 subscribers? Are we going to send 8k requests everyday? What's the solution for this scenario? We don't want to implement the notifications by the way. Any solutions?

Answered by App Store Commerce Engineer in 794114022

As you stated, the recommended way is to implement App Store Server Notifications. Apple does not recommend polling our APIs in any scenario, including checking the refunds status of active subscriptions. The rate limit for the Get Refund History endpoint is 10 requests per second, which equates to 864,000 requests per day.

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App Store Commerce Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’24

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As you stated, the recommended way is to implement App Store Server Notifications. Apple does not recommend polling our APIs in any scenario, including checking the refunds status of active subscriptions. The rate limit for the Get Refund History endpoint is 10 requests per second, which equates to 864,000 requests per day.

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tunahus OP

Jul ’24

Thank you for the answer. It would be nice if developers can send requests to the API for the app's full refund transaction history. A single request with a date range can return the refunded transactions as a list. This improvement will save our life. Please forward to the Apple development team. Thank you.

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