PracticeQ Payments: Refunds
PracticeQ Payments allows you to issue refunds for payments made in error or for services not rendered.
About Refunds
- There is no fee to your practice of issuing a refund.
- The processing fee from the original transaction will not be refunded to your practice.
How Refunds Reflect in Deposits
Using an example of a $2000 sale where $100 was refunded:
- If the $100 refund is done as a part of the same daily batch, it will show in your bank account as a deposit of $1900 for that day.
- If you run the sale and the refund before the batch has closed for the day, it will never settle, so the refund will be counted as a void. If this is the case, the total deposit (assuming it was just that one transaction) will be $1900.
- However, if it is a true refund, where it is processed after the initial batch closed, the full $2,000 will be deposited from the original transaction, and the $100 refund will be taken out of the batch on the day of the refund.
Refund Ratio
- Be mindful of how many refunds you issue. Stax, the processor for PracticeQ Payments, tracks the ratio of refunds to processed payments.
- Merchants with a high refund ratio will be placed on a risk hold while Stax looks into their account details. During a risk hold, deposits to your account will likely be paused.
- While on a risk hold, you will be asked to provide the last three months of bank statements so the processing risk team can confirm that the account is funded regularly and is not often cleared out to a zero balance.