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PATCH/v1/api/store/{team_slug}/customer/{hash_id}/restore

v1Operation ID v1_public_customer_restore

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.

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.").

Path parameters

  • team_slugstringrequired

    Your team slug, shown as Team ID next to your API key in Profile.

    • Example your-team
  • hash_idstringrequired

    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.

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, 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.
  • 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.code is null and error.message names the record type.
    Fix
    Check the id.
  • 422The 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 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.