Guide
Refunds: a practical playbook.
Most chargebacks come from refund requests that didn’t get an answer. The fastest way to keep your dispute rate low is to be loudly clear about your refund policy, respond quickly to buyer messages, and issue refunds you were going to issue anyway — sooner.
Publish your policy on every event page
Put a single short paragraph in your event description that covers: (a) under what conditions you’ll refund (b) the cutoff date (c) any fees that don’t come back (e.g. The card-processing fee). Buyers who see this rarely chargeback — they just email you.
Refund within 60 days to get the platform fee back
Refunds processed within 60 days of the original purchase return the $0.99 Jamrats platform fee to your payout balance. Beyond that, the fee is retained. Don’t sit on refund requests — issue them while the fee is still recoverable.
Partial refunds for group orders
If a buyer purchased six tickets and two can’t make it, refund the two — don’t refund the whole order. The partial-refund flow handles this down to a single ticket; the rest of the order stays valid and scannable.
When you cancel an event
Use the bulk-refund button. It refunds every paid order in one transaction and fires a Jamrats-branded email to each buyer so they know what happened. Don’t leave buyers to discover the cancellation on social media.
You have 14 days from the cancellation to issue the refunds. If you don’t, Jamrats may issue refunds from your payout balance on the buyer’s behalf.
When a chargeback lands
The dispute is routed to your dashboard with a 7-day evidence window. Submit: receipt, communication with the buyer, scan record if they showed up, and the event-specific refund policy. The payment processor’s decision is final, so make the evidence airtight the first time.
Edge cases
Buyer no-shows.No automatic refund — they bought the ticket. If you’d prefer to refund as goodwill, do it after the event from the order page.
Force majeure. Weather cancellations, public- health orders, venue closures: refund per the policy you posted. If no policy was posted, default is a full refund to the buyer.
Buyer dispute about a service.Sound was bad? Headliner cancelled? That’s an event-quality issue, not a payment issue. Engage with the buyer; most accept a partial refund or a comp to the next event.