What a Real, Money-Moving L2 Refund Workflow Actually Looks Like | Workflow Deep Dive
The refund flow on the slide is a clean 8-step line. Built for real, that line is only a fifth of it — the other four-fifths decide whether to get to the payout at all. This deep dive takes apart a real L2 refund workflow: from linear 8 steps to a branching tree, why most of the code isn't refunding but not-refunding, why limits must live in a DB table and not the prompt, why every leaf with an unwired external system defaults to a human. Twenty-five minutes in, you can take this skeleton to a vendor and ask where their refund workflow's guardrails are.
Jun 3, 2026·25 min read