---
title: Imported Shopify refunds keep their date
date: 2026-10-29
description: Order imports now date each refund from Refund: Created At, so migrated refunds show on the correct day in your Shopify sales reports.
tags: ["Orders","Imports","Migration"]
categories: ["Changelog"]
url: https://www.getaltera.com/changelog/2026-10-29-imported-shopify-refunds-keep-their-date/
---
When you import orders with refunds, the refunds now keep the date from your file instead of the day of the import.

### Improvements

- **Refund date** - A refund that the import creates gets its `Refund: Created At` date in Shopify, also on existing orders ([Refund: Created At](https://support.getaltera.com/en/articles/11490221-order-fields#refund-created-at)).
- **Sales reports** - Refunds from a store migration now show on the day they happened in your Shopify reports, not on the import day.
- **Fallback date** - If `Refund: Created At` is blank, the refund takes the `Transaction: Processed At` of its refund transaction.
- **New orders** - A refund transaction row without `Transaction: Processed At` uses the order's `Processed At`, which usually dates the refund on the order date.
- **Order exports** - `Refund: Created At` now shows the refund date in Shopify, so a refund that you imported with a date keeps it when you copy it to another store.

### Heads-up

- **Payment transaction date** - The refund's payment transaction still gets the date of the import, because Shopify doesn't let apps set it.