Restore a deleted customer
AI agents: read /llms.txt; add .md to any page URL. This page as Markdown: /reference/customers/v1-customer-restore.md. Index of every page and the rules for every call: /llms.txt. Guides and concepts in one file: /llms-full.txt. OpenAPI: /openapi.json.
PATCH/
Brings back a deleted customer. Answers success: true with data: null; read the customer to see it. Restoring a customer that is not deleted also succeeds and changes nothing.
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.").
Path parameters
Your team slug, shown as Team ID next to your API key in Profile.
- Example
your-team
- Example
The customer's id (
idfrom List customers or Create a customer). A hash id from an earlier answer; unique keys and document numbers (such asPO0042) don't work here.- Example
EDhVUaC6jbLbed
- Example
Request body
This operation takes no request body.
Response
200Successful response.
Errors
401The API key is missing or wrong (
unauthenticated).403You 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, withunauthorizedoruser_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.
404Not 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 customer with this id in the team, deleted or not.
error.codeis null anderror.messagenames the record type. - Fix
- Check the id.
422The request was refused and changed nothing.
validation_failedlists what to fix inerror.fields; other codes name a business rule, explained inerror.message. A few checks answer with only{"message": "..."}. An operation that calls another service (a payment provider, a carrier, an accounting app) can answerconnect_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 comes from Shopify, or is a system customer (
error.codevalidation_error, with the reason inerror.message). - Fix
- Change Shopify customers in Shopify. System customers cannot be changed.
Related
- DELETEDelete a customer
/v1/ api/ store/ {team_slug}/ customer/ {hash_id} - GETGet a customer
/v1/ api/ store/ {team_slug}/ customer/ {hash_id}
