How do I find out if a payment for a non-renewing subscription has been refunded by Apple?

Everything I've found points to this not being possible, however, I don't want to give up on something so obvious (and necessary for accounting purposes). I know that Apple won't give me customer details or details of why the refund was given, but all I need is confirmation of whether or not the transaction, which I already have the details of, has been refunded. I have tried getting "receipt-data" for all the relevant payments and have found nothing ("cancellation_date" doesn't seem to be set in the "in_app" or "latest_receipt_info" lists), although the Apple console shows that there have been refunds.

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You need to get the app user (the one who is most likely no longer using the app since they asked for a refund) to refresh the receipt and send you a refreshed receipt. (I don't think that just adding a transaction observer will result in a call to updateTransactions with a new receipt since there is no 'new transaction' to queue.) That refreshed receipt will contain a cancellation_date. Unlike autorenewable subscriptions, you cannot send an earlier receipt and expect to receive the latest_receipt_info for non-renewing subscriptions.

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Thanks, that's what I feared but couldn't believe Apple would be so stupid. Should have known better!

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