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DELETE/v2/api/store/{team_slug}/v2/sales_order/{order_unique_key}

v2Operation ID v2_public_order_destroy

Deletes a sales order or quote. You can bring it back with Restore.

Deleting a published sales order also undoes its money and stock: payments on it are moved to the customer's credit (not on Shopify orders), its stock workflows are cancelled and its stock reservations released. Its invoices, jobs, shipments and messages are deleted with it, and its Shippo labels are voided.

Deleting an order that is already deleted succeeds and changes nothing. The answer has no data.

{order_unique_key} is the sales order or quote id (for example V4keXwwxMQyXw7) or its unique_key (it starts with ord_). The order number people see, such as SO1001, is not accepted here.

Permission

Needs permission to edit this sales order or quote:

  • The team owner
  • A role with update_all_order
  • A role with update_self_order, when the order was created by or is assigned to the API key's user
  • The person who created a draft, with create_order

Quotes use the same sales order permissions.

Business rules

  • A Shopify-linked draft can't be deleted until it is published: "Publish this order before deleting a Shopify-linked order."
  • A draft with a shipping label bought through YoPrint can't be deleted: "Publish this order before deleting an order with a shipping label."
  • An order (other than a Shopify order) can't be deleted while a payment holding money on it is frozen by an open dispute or review: 422 customer_payment_disputed_funds_unavailable ("This order can't be deleted while a payment on it is under dispute. You can delete it once <provider> decides.") or invoice_payment_funding_withheld ("This order can't be deleted while a payment on it is under review. You can delete it once the review is finished."), with error.reason, error.provider and error.provider_label. Nothing changes.

Side effects

  • Moves every payment on a published order to the customer's credit (money from a Customer Portal payment goes back to that payment's credit). Shopify orders keep their payments.
  • Cancels stock workflows and releases stock reservations.
  • Deletes the order's invoices, jobs, shipments, packages and messages.
  • Voids Shippo labels bought for the order and asks Shippo for their refund (a provider call).
  • On a Shopify order, cancels the fulfillments YoPrint created in Shopify.
  • Sends the order.deleted webhook (quote.deleted for a quote), drafts included, and on a published order updates the customer's totals.
  • When the team syncs to QuickBooks Online automatically, queues a sync that removes the order's payments and invoices from QuickBooks.

Path parameters

  • team_slugstringrequired

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

    • Example your-team
  • order_unique_keystringrequired

    The sales order's or quote's id (a hash id), or its unique_key (ord_…). The order number (scoped_id) does not work.

    • Example V4keXwwxMQyXw7

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
    The API key's role can't edit this order.
    Fix
    Ask the team owner for sales order edit permission.
  • 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 such order in this team.
    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
    A Shopify-linked draft, or a draft with a bought shipping label.
    Fix
    Publish it first, then delete.
    When
    A payment on the order is frozen by an open dispute or review (customer_payment_disputed_funds_unavailable or invoice_payment_funding_withheld).
    Fix
    Wait for the provider's decision, then delete.