# Delete a contact by id

```http
DELETE https://secure.yoprint.com/v1/api/store/{team_slug}/contact/{id}
```

- API version: v1
- Operation ID: `v1_public_contact_destroy`
- Section: Customers › [Contacts](https://developer.yoprint.com/reference/contacts.md)
- Web page: https://developer.yoprint.com/reference/contacts/v1-contact-destroy/
- Authentication: `Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY`

Deletes a customer or vendor contact. The primary contact can't be deleted: make another contact primary first.

## Permission

Any member of the team.

## Business rules

- Contacts synced from Shopify are read-only (422).

## Side effects

- Sends the `customer_contact.deleted` webhook (this route sends it for vendor contacts too).
- For a customer contact, removes the Customer Portal access it gave for its customer, and any access denial with it. When the portal account then has no active access to any customer, its signed-in sessions end.

## Path parameters

- `team_slug` (string, required): Your team slug, shown as Team ID next to your API key in Profile. Example `your-team`.
- `id` (string, required): The contact's id: a customer or vendor contact. A hash id from an earlier answer; unique keys and document numbers (such as `PO0042`) don't work here. Example `uAu3dAKIaHyAYk`.

## Request body

This operation takes no request body.

### Example request

```bash
curl -X DELETE 'https://secure.yoprint.com/v1/api/store/your-team/contact/uAu3dAKIaHyAYk' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'X-Yoprint-Decimal-Format: exact-v1'
```

## Response

`200` Successful response.

Fields:

- `data` (null, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `success` (boolean, required)

Example response:

```json
{
  "data": null,
  "status": 200,
  "success": true
}
```

## Errors

- `401` The API key is missing or wrong (`unauthenticated`).
- `403` You are not allowed to do this. `api_access_not_in_plan`: your team's plan doesn't include API access (Pro and above, with an active subscription or trial), so every request answers this until the team upgrades. When your role lacks the permission the operation needs, the body is only `{"message": "Insufficient Permission"}`. Other refusals use the error envelope, with `unauthorized` or `user_is_not_authorized`.
- `404` Not found. `page_not_found`: the team slug is unknown, you are not a member of the team, or an id in the path is not one of this team's. `code: null`, with a message that starts "No query results for": there is no record with that id.
  - When: No live contact with this id. `error.code` is null and `error.message` names the record type. Fix: Check the id.
- `422` The request was refused and changed nothing. `validation_failed` lists what to fix in `error.fields`; other codes name a business rule, explained in `error.message`. A few checks answer with only `{"message": "..."}`. An operation that calls another service (a payment provider, a carrier, an accounting app) can answer `connect_timeout` ("Please retry again") when that service does not answer in time: the change may or may not have happened there, so read the record back before you retry.
  - When: The contact is primary (`error.code` `delete_fail`, "The primary contact can't be removed. Set another contact as primary first."), or synced from Shopify (`validation_error`). Fix: Set another contact as primary first.

## Related

- [Set the primary contact](https://developer.yoprint.com/reference/customer-contacts/v1-customer-contact-primary.md): `PATCH /v1/api/store/{team_slug}/customer/{hash_id}/contact/{id}/primary`
- [Restore a deleted customer contact](https://developer.yoprint.com/reference/customer-contacts/v1-customer-contact-restore.md): `PATCH /v1/api/store/{team_slug}/customer/{hash_id}/contact/{id}/restore`