---
title: "Retrieve a return"
url: "https://docs.unified.to/commerce/return/Retrieve_a_return"
description: "Retrieve a return with Unified's Return API (GET /commerce/{connection_id}/return/{id}). Filter by fields and raw. Supported by 1 Return integration."
date: "2026-10-30T17:34:13.489Z"
updated: "2026-10-30T17:34:13.489Z"
---
# Retrieve a return

Updated: October 30, 2026

 GET/commerce/{connection\_id}/return/{id}

Retrieves a single CommerceReturn by its `id`. Obtain `id` values from the corresponding list endpoint. Use `fields` to return only the fields you need.

## Parameters

**fields**string array 

id

created\_at

updated\_at

order\_id

status

type

currency

total\_refund\_amount

customer\_email

customer\_name

return\_by\_at

lineitems

metadata

raw

Fields to return

**raw**string 

Raw parameters to include in the 3rd-party request. Encoded as a URL component. eg. raw parameters: foo=bar&zoo=bar -> raw=foo%3Dbar%26zoo%3Dbar

**connection\_id**string  required 

ID of the connection

**id**string  required 

ID of the Return

## Returns

[CommerceReturn](https://docs.unified.to/commerce/return/model.md)

| Response field                | Type                       | Required | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| ----------------------------- | -------------------------- | -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| id                            | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| created\_at                   | string (date-time)         | No       | (ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| updated\_at                   | string (date-time)         | No       | (ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| order\_id                     | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| status                        | enum                       | No       | Values: REQUESTED, OPEN, APPROVED, REJECTED, CLOSED, CANCELLED, OTHER                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| type                          | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| currency                      | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| total\_refund\_amount         | number                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| customer\_email               | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| customer\_name                | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| return\_by\_at                | string (date-time)         | No       | (ISO-8601 / YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ format)                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| lineitems                     | CommerceReturnLineitem\[\] | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| lineitems\[\].id              | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| lineitems\[\].order\_line\_id | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| lineitems\[\].item\_id        | string                     | No       | (reference to CommerceItem)                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| lineitems\[\].sku             | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| lineitems\[\].name            | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| lineitems\[\].quantity        | number                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| lineitems\[\].refund\_amount  | number                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| lineitems\[\].reason          | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| lineitems\[\].status          | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| metadata                      | CommerceMetadata\[\]       | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| metadata\[\].id               | string                     | No       | The ID of the custom field definition (from the metadata/metadata endpoint).                                                                                                                                                                             |
| metadata\[\].value            | object                     | No       | The field's value, typed by format: DATE as ISO-8601 (YYYY-MM-DD, or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ for date-times); NUMBER, PRICE and CURRENCY as a number; BOOLEAN and YES\_NO as true/false; MULTIPLE\_SELECT as an array of option values; otherwise a string. |
| metadata\[\].namespace        | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| metadata\[\].format           | enum                       | No       | The data type of the custom field, which determines how value is formatted. Values: TEXT, NUMBER, DATE, BOOLEAN, FILE, TEXTAREA, SINGLE\_SELECT, MULTIPLE\_SELECT, MEASUREMENT, PRICE, YES\_NO, CURRENCY, URL                                            |
| metadata\[\].extra\_data      | object                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| metadata\[\].slug             | string                     | No       | The integration's API name (key) of an existing custom field. List valid slugs for this object with the metadata/metadata endpoint; unknown slugs are rejected by the integration.                                                                       |
| metadata\[\].description      | string                     | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| metadata\[\].is\_required     | boolean                    | No       |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |

## Errors

 Errors return the HTTP status code and a JSON body with `statusCode`, `error` (the short label) and `message` (a human-readable detail). 

```json
{
  "statusCode": 429,
  "error": "Too Many Requests",
  "message": "Too many requests to unified.to API; max requests per minute: N"
}
```

| Status | Error                 | Meaning                                           |
| ------ | --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| 400    | Bad Request           | The request was malformed or failed validation.   |
| 401    | Unauthorized          | The connection is likely broken; re-authorize it. |
| 403    | Forbidden             | The connection is missing permissions or scopes.  |
| 404    | Not Found             | The requested resource does not exist.            |
| 429    | Too Many Requests     | Rate limit exceeded (see the two sources below).  |
| 500    | Internal Server Error | An unexpected error occurred.                     |
| 501    | Not Implemented       | Not supported by this integration.                |

 Errors from the underlying integration pass through: the integration's status comes back as ours (429, 401, 403, 404 or 5xx), usually with its message. When the integration's error body is unclear, Unified extracts what it can and returns a clearer message. 

### 429 Too Many Requests

A 429 has two possible sources:

* The integration's own rate limit, passed through.
* Unified's workspace limit: a rolling 60 seconds, set by plan, with the message `Too many requests to unified.to API; max requests per minute: N`.

## Code Samples

### Node.js SDK

```javascript
import { UnifiedTo } from '@unified-api/typescript-sdk';

const sdk = new UnifiedTo({
    security: {
        jwt: '<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>',
    },
});

const connectionId = '5de520f96e439b002043d8dc';

const id = '1234';

const results = await sdk.commerce.getCommerceReturn({ connectionId, id, 
    fields: '',
    raw: '',
 });
```

### Node.js (axios)

```javascript
const options = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://api.unified.to/commerce/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/return/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8',
  headers: {
    authorization: 'bearer .....'
  },
  params: {
    fields: '',
    raw: '',
  }
};

const results = await axios.request(options);
```

### Java

```java
AsyncHttpClient client = new DefaultAsyncHttpClient();

client.prepare("GET", "https://api.unified.to/commerce/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/return/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=")
  .setHeader("accept", "application/json")
  .setHeader("authorization", ".....")
  .execute()
  .toCompletableFuture()
  .thenAccept(System.out::println)
  .join();

client.close();
```

### Go

```go
import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io/ioutil"
)

url := `https://api.unified.to/commerce/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/return/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=

req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

req.Header.Add("accept", "application/json")
req.Header.Add("authorization", ".....")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
```

### Python

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.unified.to/commerce/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/return/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw="

headers = {
    "accept": "application/json",
    "authorization": "....."
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
```

### PHP

```php
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.unified.to/commerce/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/return/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "accept: application/json",
    "authorization: ....."
  ],
]);
```

### Ruby

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://api.unified.to/commerce/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/return/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["accept"] = 'application/json'
request["authorization"] = '....'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

### cURL

```bash
curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.unified.to/commerce/5de520f96e439b002043d8dc/return/5de520f96e439b002043d8d8?fields=&raw=' \
  --header 'accept: application/json' \
  --header 'authorization: .....'
```
