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# List chargebacks



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api/openapi.yaml get /chargebacks
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Bouclay API
  version: 1.0.0
  summary: Integrator API for Bouclay subscriptions, invoices, payments, and webhooks.
  description: >
    Bouclay is managed recurring-billing infrastructure for African payment

    gateways. Integrators connect their own gateway account (Bachs, with Nomba,

    Paystack and Flutterwave in early access) and use this API to manage
    customers, catalog, subscriptions,

    entitlements, usage metering, invoices, payment-method checkout sessions,
    payments, and

    outbound event history.


    Bouclay never holds funds — every charge, refund, and payout happens on your

    own gateway account, with your own keys. Which gateway settles a given
    charge

    is Bouclay's concern, not yours: a stored card always charges through the

    gateway that issued its token.


    ## Early access


    Some of this API is documented ahead of its release, so you can build

    against it now. Those operations carry an **Early access** badge, and so

    do the request fields that depend on them (graduated, volume and package

    pricing, usage-based prices, usage thresholds). Until a feature is turned

    on for your account, its endpoints answer `404 not_found`, its fields are

    refused with a `422`, and a restricted key cannot be given its scopes.

    Ask us to turn it on. Nothing you already rely on changes when it is.
servers:
  - url: https://bouclay.com/api/v1
    description: Production
security:
  - SecretKeyAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Customers
  - name: Customer addresses
  - name: Payment methods
  - name: Entitlements
    description: >-
      Early access: answers `404 not_found` until it is turned on for your
      account.
  - name: Credits
    description: >-
      What a customer has left to spend. Money owed back to a customer is their
      balance, one per currency; their next invoice spends it after tax, like a
      payment, and collects the rest. Promotional credit you give is held in
      lots (credit grants), each with its own expiry; the next invoice spends it
      before tax, so it lowers the VAT like a discount.
  - name: Catalog
  - name: Payment links
    description: >-
      A shareable checkout page for one price, the same link a price's "Payment
      link" makes in the dashboard. Buyers enter their email and pay; a
      subscription price starts the subscription once paid.
  - name: Meters
    description: >-
      Early access: answers `404 not_found` until it is turned on for your
      account.
  - name: Usage
    description: >-
      Early access: answers `404 not_found` until it is turned on for your
      account.
  - name: Discounts
    description: >-
      Early access: answers `404 not_found` until it is turned on for your
      account.
  - name: Subscriptions
  - name: Invoices
  - name: Metrics
    description: >-
      Early access: answers `404 not_found` until it is turned on for your
      account. Revenue metrics measured from each subscription's monthly
      recurring amount (MRR). `active` and `past_due` subscriptions count;
      trials, pauses and metered usage do not. Amounts are major units, rates
      are percentages (105.25 means 105.25%), and currencies are never summed.
  - name: Credit notes
    description: >-
      A credit note corrects an issued invoice without changing it: "of this
      invoice, this much is no longer owed". Each one has its own number in an
      unbroken sequence (`{prefix}-CN-0001`) and never changes once issued. On
      an unpaid invoice the credit comes off `amountDue`; on a paid one it goes
      back to the customer, refunded to the card, added to the customer balance
      or settled outside Bouclay. What the customer balance paid of an invoice
      always goes back to the balance first. An invoice always satisfies
      `amountDue = total - amountPaid - amountCredited - balanceApplied`. Every
      refund also issues a credit note.
  - name: Payments
  - name: Refunds
    description: >-
      A refund goes back through the gateway that took the payment. Refund part
      of a payment and it stays `succeeded`; refund all of it and it becomes
      `refunded`.
  - name: Chargebacks
    description: >-
      A chargeback is a payment the customer's bank took back. Record one when
      your payment provider reports it, with the provider's dispute reference,
      then record how the dispute ended. While it is open, Bouclay doesn't
      charge or chase the subscription. A chargeback on a credit top-up takes
      back the unspent credit and its bonus; winning the dispute puts back
      exactly that. Uses the `refunds` scope.
  - name: Events
  - name: Checkout sessions
  - name: Portal sessions
  - name: Webhook endpoints
paths:
  /chargebacks:
    get:
      tags:
        - Chargebacks
      summary: List chargebacks
      operationId: listChargebacks
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/After'
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Before'
        - name: paymentId
          in: query
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: status
          in: query
          schema:
            type: string
            enum:
              - open
              - won
              - lost
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ChargebackList'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
components:
  parameters:
    Limit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
        maximum: 100
        default: 25
    After:
      name: after
      in: query
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Return results after this public ID cursor.
    Before:
      name: before
      in: query
      schema:
        type: string
      description: >-
        Return results before this public ID cursor. Cannot be combined with
        after.
  responses:
    ChargebackList:
      description: Chargeback list response.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            allOf:
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ListEnvelope'
              - type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/Chargeback'
    Error:
      description: Structured API error.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  schemas:
    ListEnvelope:
      type: object
      required:
        - data
        - meta
      properties:
        data:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        meta:
          allOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
            - type: object
              properties:
                pagination:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pagination'
    Chargeback:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          example: cb_123
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
            - open
            - won
            - lost
        amount:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/MajorAmount'
        currency:
          type: string
        reason:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
        reference:
          type: string
          description: The payment provider's dispute reference.
        payment:
          type: object
          properties:
            id:
              type: string
        invoice:
          type: object
          properties:
            id:
              type: string
        resolvedAt:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          format: date-time
        createdAt:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          format: date-time
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      required:
        - error
        - meta
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          required:
            - type
            - code
            - detail
          properties:
            type:
              type: string
              enum:
                - request_error
                - api_error
              description: >-
                `api_error` with code `internal_error` (HTTP 500) means the
                fault is ours: retry with the same Idempotency-Key.
              example: request_error
            code:
              type: string
              enum:
                - authentication_failed
                - permission_denied
                - invalid_field
                - invalid_cursor
                - idempotency_conflict
                - meter_not_found
                - meter_archived
                - customer_not_found
                - timestamp_in_future
                - usage_period_closed
                - subscription_paused
                - missing_property
                - invalid_value
                - conflict
                - subscription_suspended
                - no_upcoming_invoice
                - not_found
                - request_error
                - internal_error
            detail:
              type: string
            errors:
              type: array
              items:
                type: object
                required:
                  - field
                  - message
                properties:
                  field:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
        meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
    Meta:
      type: object
      required:
        - requestId
      properties:
        requestId:
          type: string
          example: req_550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000
    Pagination:
      type: object
      required:
        - hasMore
      properties:
        hasMore:
          type: boolean
        previous:
          type: string
        next:
          type: string
    MajorAmount:
      type:
        - number
        - 'null'
      minimum: 0
      description: Major currency units. For example, 15000 means NGN 15,000.
  securitySchemes:
    SecretKeyAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: '{sk|rk}_{mode}_{random}'
      description: >
        Use a Bouclay secret key (`sk_test_...`, `sk_live_...`) or restricted
        key

        (`rk_test_...`, `rk_live_...`).


        A secret key can call every endpoint. A restricted key can only call the

        endpoints its scopes cover. A scope is `{resource}:{access}`, for
        example

        `customers:read` or `refunds:write`, and write includes read. `GET`

        requests need read access and everything else needs write, except

        `POST /subscriptions/{id}/items/{item}/preview`, which only needs

        `subscriptions:read`. A request outside the key's scopes gets `403

        permission_denied` naming the missing scope, and its `Idempotency-Key`

        is not used up.


        | Resource | Endpoints | Access |

        | --- | --- | --- |

        | `customers` | customers, their addresses and payment methods | read,
        write |

        | `entitlements` | `/customers/{id}/entitlements` | read |

        | `credits` | `/customers/{id}/credit-balance`, credit purchases, credit
        grants, auto-reloads, credit holds (committing one records its usage) |
        read, write |

        | `catalog` | products, plans, prices | read, write |

        | `meters` | meters | read, write |

        | `usage` | meter events, `/customers/{id}/usage` | read, write |

        | `discounts` | discounts | read |

        | `subscriptions` | subscriptions | read, write |

        | `invoices` | invoices | read, write |

        | `credit_notes` | credit notes, `POST /invoices/{id}/credit-notes` (a
        refund to the card also needs `refunds:write`) | read, write |

        | `payments` | payments | read |

        | `refunds` | refunds, `POST /payments/{id}/refunds`, chargebacks and
        their outcome | read, write |

        | `checkout_sessions` | checkout sessions | read, write |

        | `portal_sessions` | portal sessions | write |

        | `events` | events | read |

        | `webhook_endpoints` | webhook endpoints | read, write |

        | `metrics` | metrics | read |


        Publishable keys (`pk_...`) are rejected by server-side API endpoints. A

        key's mode scopes what it can see and charge: a test key can never reach

        a live card.

````

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