# Delete a customer address

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

- API version: v1
- Operation ID: `v1_public_customer_address_destroy`
- Section: Customers › [Customer addresses](https://developer.yoprint.com/reference/customer-addresses.md)
- Web page: https://developer.yoprint.com/reference/customer-addresses/v1-customer-address-destroy/
- Authentication: `Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY`

Deletes a current address. Existing sales orders, quotes, invoices, shipments, and purchase orders that already use the address keep their saved copy of the address. It can be restored. Deleting the primary address does not make another one primary.

## Permission

Needs the Manage Customers permission ("Manage All" or "Manage Assigned to User"). Whether the customer is assigned to you is not checked.

## Business rules

- Only a current address: an old copy, or an address synced from another system or redacted, is refused with 409.
- Addresses synced from Shopify are read-only (422).
- Customers synced from Shopify are read-only here: changes are refused with 422 `validation_error` "External customers are read-only. Manage changes from Shopify." System customers (`is_system: true`) are refused the same way ("System customer cannot be modified or deleted.").

## Path parameters

- `team_slug` (string, required): Your team slug, shown as Team ID next to your API key in Profile. Example `your-team`.
- `hash_id` (string, required): The customer's id (`id` from List customers or Create a customer). A hash id from an earlier answer; unique keys and document numbers (such as `PO0042`) don't work here. Example `EDhVUaC6jbLbed`.
- `id` (string, required): The address's id (`id` from List a customer's addresses). 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/customer/EDhVUaC6jbLbed/address/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`.
  - When: Your role has no Manage Customers permission. This 403 has a short body, `{"message": "Insufficient Permission"}`, with no `success` or `error`. Fix: Ask a team owner to give your role Manage Customers.
- `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: Already deleted, or not this customer's. `error.code` is null and `error.message` names the record type. Fix: Check the ids.
- `409` The address is an old copy replaced by an edit (`blocked_superseded_historical_address`; `current_address` is the copy to use), or it is synced from another system or redacted (`blocked_external_or_compliance`; `current_address` is the same address). Not the usual error envelope: `success: false`, `address_save_result` and `message` (the `save_mode`); no `status` or `error`.
  - When: The address is not current: replaced by an edit (`address_save_result.save_mode` `blocked_superseded_historical_address`), or synced from another system or redacted (`blocked_external_or_compliance`). Not the usual error envelope: the body has `success: false`, `address_save_result` and `message`. Fix: For a replaced address, use `address_save_result.current_address.id`. A synced or redacted address can't be changed.
- `422` Validation failed or external Shopify customers are read-only from this API.
  - When: The address is synced from Shopify (`validation_error`, "Shopify-managed customer addresses are read-only. Manage changes from Shopify."). Fix: Change it in Shopify.
  - When: The customer comes from Shopify, or is a system customer (`error.code` `validation_error`, with the reason in `error.message`). Fix: Change Shopify customers in Shopify. System customers cannot be changed.

## Related

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