---
title: "Cancel a pending redemption"
method: POST
path: "/v1/redemptions/{redemption_id}/cancel"
tags: ["Redemptions"]
---

# Cancel a pending redemption

`POST /v1/redemptions/{redemption_id}/cancel`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.scrip.dev`
- URL: `https://api.scrip.dev/v1/redemptions/{redemption_id}/cancel`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Release the reservation backing a pending redemption and mark it cancelled. Replaying an already-cancelled redemption returns the same record.

## Path parameters

- `redemption_id` string, uuid, required

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string

## Request body

- ReleaseRedemptionRequest: Cancels or fails a pending redemption and releases the value it reserved.
  - `idempotency_key` string: Your key for this request. You can send it in the Idempotency-Key header instead; when both are sent they must match.
  - `reason` string: Optional fulfillment failure or cancellation reason (1-500 chars)

## Response `200`

Redemption cancelled or same-outcome replay

- RedemptionResponse: A redemption: value a participant spent, with its status and fulfillment.
  - `amount` string: Total amount debited from the participant's balance (decimal string)
  - `asset_id` string, uuid: The asset that was debited
  - `capture_journal_entry_id` string, uuid: Ledger entry that captured a pending redemption
  - `captured_at` string, date-time: When the pending redemption was captured
  - `created_at` string, date-time: When this redemption was created
  - `description` string: Context for this redemption, used in journal entries
  - `expires_at` string, date-time: Effective deadline of the backing reservation. Always present for pending redemptions; defaults to 90 days and may be configured up to one year.
  - `failure_reason` string: Machine-readable or operator-supplied terminal failure detail
  - `fulfillment` RedemptionFulfillmentSummary: The current fulfillment outcome of a redemption, such as the provider order and any failure reason.
    - `claim_url` string: Usable claim link, when available on the catalog redemption creation response. Omitted on GET/list; use POST /v1/redemptions/{id}/claim-link to retrieve a link.
    - `created_at` string, date-time: When this fulfillment was created
    - `face_value` Money: A fiat amount: an integer count of the currency's minor units, such as cents, and the ISO 4217 currency code.
      - `amount_minor` integer, required: Amount in the currency's minor units, such as cents for USD
      - `currency` string, required: ISO 4217 currency code
    - `failure_reason` string: Bounded terminal failure reason, present only when FAILED
    - `provider` string: The gift-card provider that fulfills the redemption.
    - `provider_order_id` string: Provider's order identifier, present once an order has been placed
    - `resolved_at` string, date-time: When this fulfillment reached a terminal state
    - `status` 'PENDING' | 'PROCESSING' | 'SUCCEEDED' | 'FAILED' | 'AWAITING_FUNDS': Fulfillment lifecycle status
    - `updated_at` string, date-time: When this fulfillment was last updated
  - `id` string, uuid: Unique identifier for this redemption
  - `journal_entry_id` string, uuid: Immutable ledger anchor: the hold entry for pending redemptions, otherwise the instant redemption entry
  - `participant_id` string, uuid: The participant who redeemed
  - `program_id` string, uuid: The program this redemption belongs to
  - `quantity` integer: Number of units redeemed (catalog redemptions only)
  - `release_journal_entry_id` string, uuid: Ledger entry that released a pending redemption's reserved value back to AVAILABLE. Present only on FAILED and CANCELLED redemptions whose reservation resolved RELEASED; null while PENDING, after capture (see capture_journal_entry_id), and when every reserved lot had already expired before release (the reservation resolved EXPIRED and no release entry was posted).
  - `released_amount` string: Amount the release entry returned to AVAILABLE (decimal string). Equals the authorized amount unless part of the reserved value expired before release, in which case only the live remainder is reported. Present exactly when release_journal_entry_id is present.
  - `reservation_id` string, uuid: Reservation backing a pending redemption
  - `resolved_at` string, date-time: When the pending redemption reached a terminal state
  - `reversed_amount` string: Cumulative amount reversed so far (decimal string)
  - `reversed_quantity` integer: Cumulative units reversed so far (UNIT_BASED catalog redemptions only)
  - `reward_id` string, uuid: The reward catalog item that was redeemed (catalog redemptions only)
  - `status` 'PENDING' | 'COMPLETED' | 'FAILED' | 'CANCELLED' | 'PARTIALLY_REVERSED' | 'FULLY_REVERSED': Current lifecycle and reversal state
  - `unit_cost` string: Cost per unit at the time of redemption (catalog redemptions only, decimal string)
  - `updated_at` string, date-time: When this redemption was last updated (e.g., after a reversal)

## Other responses

- `400`: Validation failed (code: validation_error | invalid_json)
- `401`: The API key is missing or not valid. See [Authentication](https://docs.scrip.dev/authentication).
- `403`: The caller is not allowed to do this.
- `404`: Redemption not found (code: redemption_not_found)
- `409`: Redemption already resolved, its gift-card order is already placed, or another request changed the redemption at the same time (code: redemption_already_resolved | fulfillment_in_progress | retryable_conflict)
- `429`: Too many requests. Wait the number of seconds in the `Retry-After` header, then retry. See [Limits and durations](https://docs.scrip.dev/limits#rate-limits).
- `500`: Something failed on Scrip's side. Retry the request, and quote `request_id` if it keeps failing. [Errors](https://docs.scrip.dev/errors) lists every code, and the [API introduction](https://docs.scrip.dev/api-reference/introduction) describes the error format.

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