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title: "billing.vibes-charge-refund-request@1 · OpenVibe.Services"
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# billing.vibes-charge-refund-request@1 · OpenVibe.Services

HTML: [billing.vibes-charge-refund-request@1 · OpenVibe.Services](https://openvibe.services/docs/contracts/billing.vibes-charge-refund-request)

# BillingVibesChargeRefundRequest `billing.vibes-charge-refund-request@1`

Generated at 2026-11-13 06:25:48 UTC from [`openvibe-contracts v0.419.0`](https://github.com/OpenVibers/OpenVibe.Contracts/tree/v0.419.0) and [`openvibe-sdk v0.161.0`](https://github.com/OpenVibers/OpenVibe.SDK/tree/v0.161.0).

- Version: 1.0.0
- Owner: billing
- Visibility: public
- Status: active
- Compatibility: backward
- Schema: [`https://openvibe.network/contracts/billing/vibes-charge-refund-request.v1.json`](/docs/contracts/billing.vibes-charge-refund-request.json)

billing.vibes-charge-refund-request@1: the optional body of POST /api/v1/vibes/charges/:id/refund. A refund is always for the whole charge: the Vibes go back from the project's Vibes wallet to the person. reason is recorded on the refund. No amount may be given, because a partial refund is not a Vibes Pay refund.

## Fields

| Field | Type | Required | Description | Constraints |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `reason` | string \| null |  | Why the app refunded, for its own and the person's record. | - `maxLength 300` |

## Examples

From the contract's own test fixtures: valid ones validate, rejected ones must fail.

 Valid: empty

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{}
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Valid: reason

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{
  "reason": "The sticker pack was removed"
}
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Rejected: partial-amount

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{
  "amount": 25
}
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Rejected: reason-too-long

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{
  "reason": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}
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## Validate

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const contracts = require('openvibe-contracts');
contracts.validate('billing.vibes-charge-refund-request@1', value);   // { valid, errors: [{ path, message }] }
~~~~