# Delete a customer

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

- API version: v1
- Operation ID: `v1_public_customer_destroy`
- Section: Customers › [Customers](https://developer.yoprint.com/reference/customers.md)
- Web page: https://developer.yoprint.com/reference/customers/v1-customer-destroy/
- Authentication: `Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY`

Deletes a customer. The customer can be restored later; its sales orders, quotes, invoices and payments stay as they are.

Refused with 422 `delete_fail` while the customer has an open quote or sales order: any saved quote or sales order whose status is not a final (end) status. Finish, cancel or delete those first, or archive the customer instead (`hide: true`).

## Permission

Needs the Manage Customers permission: "Manage All" for any customer, or "Manage Assigned to User" for customers assigned to you.

## Business rules

- 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.").

## Side effects

- Sends the `customer.deleted` webhook.

## 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`.

## 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' \
  -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 can't change this customer: it has no Manage Customers permission, or it manages only customers assigned to you and this one is not. This 403 has a short body, `{"message": "No Permission to update Customer"}`. Fix: Ask for Manage Customers "Manage All", or to be assigned to the customer.
- `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 customer with this id in the team: deleted customers are not found here. `error.code` is null and `error.message` names the record type. Fix: Check the id. Find deleted customers with the `trashed_only` filter and restore them first.
- `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 customer has an open quote or sales order (`error.code` `delete_fail`, `error.message` "This customer can't be removed while it has an open quote or sales order."). Fix: Move those orders to a final status or delete them, or archive the customer with `hide: true`.
  - 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.

## Notes

- Deleted customers are hidden from lists. Find them with the `trashed_only` filter and bring them back with Restore a customer.

## Related

- [Restore a deleted customer](https://developer.yoprint.com/reference/customers/v1-customer-restore.md): `PATCH /v1/api/store/{team_slug}/customer/{hash_id}/restore`
- [Update a customer (PATCH)](https://developer.yoprint.com/reference/customers/v1-customer-update-patch.md): `PATCH /v1/api/store/{team_slug}/customer/{hash_id}`