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Payment dispute created

A payment_dispute_created event is fired when a dispute/chargeback is raised for a card transaction.

Information sent in the payload for a payment_dispute_created webhook is summarised in the table below.

Property Type Description Example
alert_id string The unique identifier for this Paddle webhook alert. Integer value sent as a string.
alert_name string The alert name.
Default: payment_dispute_created
amount string The total amount (transaction amount and fee) you were charged for this dispute being raised.
balance_amount string The transaction amount you were charged for this dispute being raised, in the vendor’s balance_currency.
balance_currency string The three-letter ISO currency code of the vendor’s account balance at the time of the transaction. USD GBP EUR
balance_fee string The fee you were charged for this dispute being raised, in the vendor’s balance_currency.
checkout_id string The checkout id of the order created. 27835673-chre93c81118fc7-b3092639c1
currency string The three-letter ISO currency code. For a full list of supported currencies, see our Supported Currencies page. USD GBP
email string<email> The email address of the customer.
event_time string<date-time> The date and time the event was triggered in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
fee_usd string The fee you were charged for this dispute being raised (in USD).
marketing_consent string The value of this field 0 or 1 indicates whether the user has agreed to receive marketing messages from the vendor.
Allowed values: 0 1
order_id string The Paddle Order ID for this payment. This can be used to look up the order within your Seller Dashboard.
p_signature string This field contains an encrypted token that you can use to verify the request authenticity. See Verifying Webhooks.
passthrough string This field contains any values that you passed into the checkout using the passthrough parameter. See the Pass Parameters documentation for more information.
Max Length: <=1000 characters
status string The status of this dispute.
Allowed values: open