Question about Balance Transaction field "source_type"

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Hi! Specific question: By reading the docs on the Balance Transaction object, it is not completely clear all the possible values for the field source_type. For example, in the GET example response provided in the docs, one of the transactions contains a value of Payments::Refund for the source_type field. But in the description of the transaction object, the docs says:

source_type

The type of the resource leading to the transaction.

  • charge
  • refund
  • dispute
  • reserve
  • adjustment
  • payout

So, if I want to check for a source_type that represents a refund, should i check for the value “refund”, or for the value “Payments::refund”?

Thanks.

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Hey @Johnathan2

Thanks for getting in touch, I agree we could make it clearer and I’ve mentioned this internally.

I’d performed some tests against the shopify_payments/balance/transactions.json REST endpoint, and you’d be looking for “Payments::refund” for source_type.

I can confirm the documentation here for shopify_payments/balance/transactions.json would be the source of truth. Hope that helps!

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Great, thank you!

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