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Log Stripe refunds in a Notion finance database
Money going back out is written into a database with the customer, the amount as a decimal, the currency and the invoice reference already attached.
Trigger: Refund issued
Action: Create a database item
About 6 minutes to set up
How this flow works
Syncline watches Stripe for Refund issued. When that happens it runs Create a database item in Notion with the fields you mapped.
- Connect Stripe with the read scopes Syncline asks for.
- Share the Notion database that finance keeps for refunds.
- Map the customer, the state and the invoice reference onto properties.
- Issue a test mode refund, check the row, then connect the live account.
Field mapping
| From Stripe | To Notion | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Customer email | Title | The page is titled with the customer address, which is the value a finance question always starts from. |
| Status | Status | The refund state is written onto the select, so partial and full refunds stay countable separately. |
| Created | Due date | The Stripe timestamp seeds the date property, converted out of UTC into the timezone you work in. |
| Invoice ID | Tags | The invoice reference is stored as a tag, which turns a later question into one search rather than a scroll through Stripe. |
Why teams run it
- Refunds are visible to people without a Stripe login
- A monthly total takes a Notion view rather than an export
- Support and finance find out at the same moment
Who uses it
A finance lead who reconciles refunds monthly and wants them beside the notes explaining each one.
About the two apps
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Stripe
Stripe knows the moment money arrives, fails or goes back out. Syncline turns each of those events into something your team can see and act on within a couple of minutes.
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Notion
Notion holds the pages and databases most teams treat as their second brain. Syncline reads those databases on a schedule and writes rows back, so a page never has to be retyped somewhere else.
Questions
Are partial refunds handled?
Yes. The amount returned is written, not the original charge, and the status says partial so a monthly total adds up correctly.
Can somebody add a reason to the row?
That is the point of putting it in Notion. The flow creates the row and a person writes what happened underneath, which Stripe has nowhere to hold.
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