post_finance_clawbacks_by_id_decide
Calls POST /api/finance/clawbacks/{id}/decide as the signed-in person · REST reference
Approve or deny a REQUESTED payout clawback (platform staff)
Records Pawsitive Future's decision. An approval pauses the service provider's payouts, sends it the written notice (the amount, the claim, the reason, and how to contest within 30 days) and then executes the clawback — reverses the payout's Stripe transfer, or for PFF_DISCRETIONARY recovers by offset only — so the answer carries noticeSentAt and transferReversalState. A notice that does not send leaves the clawback APPROVED with noticeSentAt: null and nothing recovered; an execution that does not finish is retried by POST /api/finance/clawbacks/{id}/execute. Either way the decision stands (200). A denial of a clawback the service provider filed is emailed to it. An approval's fee liability is the one named, else the one Pawsitive Future's filing proposed, else SERVICE_PROVIDER; Pawsitive Future may absorb the fees on any clawback, and can change who pays while it is collected (PUT /api/finance/clawbacks/{id}/fee-liability). An approval also records whether the voucher stops counting as help delivered once the clawback resolves (voucherValueReversed): the reason's default (voucherValueReversedByDefault) unless named, and required for a reason with none (PFF_DISCRETIONARY, OTHER) — approving one without it is refused (400). A denial takes neither (400).
Arguments
| Argument | Type | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
idpath | string (uuid) | required | |
bodyJSON | object | required | The request body, as a JSON object. Its fields are listed below. |
Fields of body
| Field | Type | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
decision | "APPROVE" | "DENY" | required | |
feeLiability | object | null | ||
voucherValueReversed | boolean | null | An approval's answer; the reason's default when omitted, and required for PFF_DISCRETIONARY and OTHER, which have none. |
Example call
A client sends this over the MCP session; Claude and other agents build it for you. The values are placeholders — the shape is real.
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "post_finance_clawbacks_by_id_decide",
"arguments": {
"id": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
"body": {
"decision": "APPROVE",
"feeLiability": {},
"voucherValueReversed": true
}
}
}
}Result
On success (HTTP 200) the tool returns one text item holding the API's JSON, pretty-printed.
The clawback after the decision, its notice and its execution, as the queue reads it
{
"amount": 1,
"approvedAt": 1,
"approvedBy": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
"creditedAmount": 1,
"currency": "string",
"deniedAt": 1,
"deniedBy": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
"feeCents": 1,
"feeLiability": {},
"feeWaiverConsumed": true,
"filedBy": "SERVICE_PROVIDER",
"id": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
"initiatedBy": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
"initiatorOrgId": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111"
}Fields
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
amount | integer | CENTS asked back — at most creditedAmount. |
approvedAt | integer | null | |
approvedBy | string (uuid) | null | |
creditedAmount | integer | CENTS the voucher's approval credited — what its payout paid. |
currency | string | |
deniedAt | integer | null | |
deniedBy | string (uuid) | null | |
feeCents | integer | CENTS of recovery fee assessed; 0 until a fee is realized. |
feeLiability | object | null | Proposed when Pawsitive Future files the clawback, set by an approval; null on a clinic's filing until it is approved, and on a denial. |
feeWaiverConsumed | boolean | Whether Pawsitive Future absorbs this approved clawback's processing cost. |
filedBy | "SERVICE_PROVIDER" | "PAWSITIVE_FUTURE" | Who filed a clawback — the service provider that was paid, or Pawsitive Future staff. |
id | string (uuid) | The clawback's ledger transaction. |
initiatedBy | string (uuid) | null | The user who filed it. |
initiatorOrgId | string (uuid) | null | The service provider that filed it; null when Pawsitive Future did. |
memo | string | null | |
orgId | string (uuid) | The service provider the payout went to. |
orgName | string | null | |
paidAt | integer | null | Epoch milliseconds the voucher was paid out. |
payoutStripeTransferId | string | null | That payout's Stripe transfer (tr_…), when it recorded one. |
payoutTransactionId | string (uuid) | null | The org's PAYOUT settlement created at the voucher's paidAt; null when none matches. |
reasonCode | "PFF_DISCRETIONARY" | "PROCEDURE_NOT_COMPLETED" | "BENEFICIARY_DISPUTE" | "DUPLICATE_OR_ERRONEOUS_PAYOUT" | "DONATION_REVERSED" | "OTHER" | Why a clawback was filed. A service provider files PROCEDURE_NOT_COMPLETED, BENEFICIARY_DISPUTE or OTHER about a payout it received; the rest are Pawsitive Future's findings. OTHER needs a memo of at least 20 characters. |
requestedAt | integer | Epoch milliseconds. |
status | "REQUESTED" | "APPROVED" | "DENIED" | "EXECUTING" | "RECOVERED" | "PARTIALLY_RECOVERED" | … (7 values) | A payout clawback's lifecycle, kept apart from its ledger transaction's status. Filing and deciding reach REQUESTED, APPROVED and DENIED; the rest follow execution. RECOVERED is "cash confirmed": Pawsitive Future has confirmed the full amount is back in hand, never merely a booked reversal. |
transferReversalState | object | null | |
voucherCode | string | |
voucherId | string (uuid) | |
voucherValueReversed | boolean | null | Decided at approval, beside the money: whether the voucher stops counting as help delivered once the clawback resolves. Null until approved, and on a denial. |
voucherValueReversedByDefault | boolean | null | What an approval records as voucherValueReversed when the approver does not say — set by the reason: true for PROCEDURE_NOT_COMPLETED, BENEFICIARY_DISPUTE and DUPLICATE_OR_ERRONEOUS_PAYOUT, false for DONATION_REVERSED. Null for PFF_DISCRETIONARY and OTHER, which have no default: an approval must say. |
cashConfirmationSource | string | null | The kinds of recovery the confirmed cash came by, comma-joined. |
cashConfirmedAt | integer | null | When the full amount was confirmed back — what RECOVERED means. |
noticeMessageId | string | null | |
noticeSentAt | integer | null | When the service provider was sent the written notice. Null after an approval means the notice did not send: nothing is recovered, payouts are paused, and POST /api/finance/clawbacks/{id}/execute retries it. |
offsetPendingAmount | integer | CENTS its offset payouts have moved that no OFFSET leg has recorded yet — settled, the transfer not confirmed. A failed one stays counted until the reconcile records it or it is released (POST /api/finance/clawbacks/{id}/offsets/{payoutTransactionId}/release). |
originalStripeTransferId | string | null | The payout transfer (tr_…) the reversal reverses. |
outstandingAmount | integer | CENTS still owed while it is being collected (APPROVED, EXECUTING); 0 once closed. |
pausesPayouts | boolean | Whether this clawback pauses its service provider's payouts: APPROVED or EXECUTING, or PARTIALLY_RECOVERED / WRITTEN_OFF until payouts are resumed. |
payoutsResumedAt | integer | null | |
payoutsResumedBy | string (uuid) | null | |
payoutsResumedReason | string | null | |
recoveredAmount | integer | CENTS recovered so far — its confirmed recovery legs. |
stripeReversalId | string | null | The transfer reversal (trr_…), once booked. |
transferReversalLastError | string | null | The last failed reversal attempt's error; null once one succeeds. |
transferReversalUpdatedAt | integer | null | Epoch milliseconds the reversal outbox state was last written; null when none was. A PENDING older than two minutes is read as a reversal whose synchronous call died. |
writtenOffAt | integer | null | |
writtenOffBy | string (uuid) | null | |
writtenOffMemo | string | null | |
feesAbsorbedBefore | integer | How many of the service provider's other approved clawbacks Pawsitive Future absorbed the processing cost of — what the approver weighs for a repeat. |
When it fails
A failed call returns isError: true with the API's message as text. A change the person declines, or lets time out, also comes back this way and nothing changes.
400The request was malformed or failed a guard.
403Authenticated, but the caller holds none of the required permissions.
404No such clawback.
409The clawback is not awaiting a decision. Carries the DAL's sentence.
What the model is shown
This is the tool exactly as the server lists it in tools/list. The description starts with the REST call it makes.
{
"name": "post_finance_clawbacks_by_id_decide",
"description": "POST /api/finance/clawbacks/{id}/decide — Records Pawsitive Future's decision. An approval pauses the service provider's payouts, sends it the written notice (the amount, the claim, the reason, and how to contest within 30 days) and then executes the clawback — reverses the payout's Stripe transfer, or for PFF_DISCRETIONARY recovers by offset only — so the answer carries `noticeSentAt` and `transferReversalState`. A notice that does not send leaves the clawback APPROVED with `noticeSentAt: null` and nothing recovered; an execution that does not finish is retried by POST /api/finance/clawbacks/{id}/execute. Either way the decision stands (200). A denial of a clawback the service provider filed is emailed to it. An approval's fee liability is the one named, else the one Pawsitive Future's filing proposed, else SERVICE_PROVIDER; Pawsitive Future may absorb the fees on any clawback, and can change who pays while it is collected (PUT /api/finance/clawbacks/{id}/fee-liability). An approval also records whether the voucher stops counting as help delivered once the clawback resolves (`voucherValueReversed`): the reason's default (`voucherValueReversedByDefault`) unless named, and required for a reason with none (PFF_DISCRETIONARY, OTHER) — approving one without it is refused (400). A denial takes neither (400).\n\nThis changes data. The person is asked to confirm it before it runs, and nothing happens if they decline.",
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"id": {
"type": "string"
},
"body": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The JSON request body: { decision*: one of \"APPROVE\" | \"DENY\"; feeLiability: { }; voucherValueReversed: boolean (An approval's answer; the reason's default when omitted, and required for PFF_DISCRETIO...) }"
}
},
"required": [
"id",
"body"
]
},
"annotations": {
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"destructiveHint": true,
"idempotentHint": false,
"openWorldHint": false
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}