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DELETE/v2/api/store/{team_slug}/v2/shipment/item/{unique_key}

v2Operation ID v2_public_shipment_item_destroy

Removes one line from a shipment and recalculates it. Returns the action envelope (DELETED; NONE if it was already removed). Labels and packages are not touched.

Permission

Needs permission to edit the shipment's order: the team owner, a role whose Manage Sales Orders permission is "update all", or "update assigned" when you created the order or are assigned to it, or, on a draft order, its creator when their role can create sales orders. Otherwise 403 user_is_not_authorized. Reading needs only team membership.

Business rules

  • A locked Shopify shipment (or one with a broken Shopify link): 422 validation_error "Cannot delete Shopify-synced shipment item from API." A line fulfilled by a third party can't be removed either.
  • An externally synced shipment on a draft order: "Publish this order before deleting an externally synced shipment item."

Side effects

  • Recalculates the shipment's cost and billable fee totals and the order's shipping totals.
  • Updates each order line's shipped status (not allocated, partly, fully or over-allocated).
  • On an Auto Invoice order, shipping cost lines are mirrored as shipping fees on the managed invoice.
  • Open Admin Portal pages refresh, and so do Customer Portal pages the order's customer has open. No webhook or email is sent.

Path parameters

  • team_slugstringrequired

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

    • Example your-team
  • unique_keystringrequired

    The shipment line's id (a hash id), as its answers show it. Its unique key (shpitm_...) also works, but API answers don't include it.

    • Example u8mEG7LHUtS55s

Request body

This operation takes no request body.

Response

200Successful response.

  • dataobjectrequired

    What happened, and the line.

    Child fields (5)
      • Always "shipment_item"
    • NONE when nothing changed.

      • One of: "CREATED", "UPDATED", "DELETED", "NONE"
    • itemobject

      A shipment line.

      Child fields (16)
      • _metaobject

        Read-only details of the line.

      • billable_fee_totaldecimal pair

        Shipping cost lines only: what is billed (after override, markup or margin); pricing.product_cost.total is the cost. A decimal pair: the amount is value ÷ 10^dp ({ "value": 1250, "dp": 2 } is 12.50). Read dp every time: it can differ between fields and records.

      • external_idsarray of objects

        Links to external systems; usually empty.

      • external_typestring | null
      • idstring

        The shipment line.

      • Returned but not checked on shipment lines.

      • positioninteger
      • pricingobject

        For system, _meta.unit_price is the order line's unit price and _meta.subtotal is that price × this shipment line's quantity (_meta.total is always 0); for shipment_cost, product_cost has override (always true for lines saved through the API), total (the cost), pricing_mode and pricing_mode_total (decimal pairs at 6 decimal places).

        Child fields (1)
        • typestring
          • One of: "system", "shipment_cost"
      • productobject
        Child fields (3)
        • _metaobject

          Read-only details; for order_item, parent describes the order line.

        • For order_item, id is the order line; for shipment_cost, name, description, shipment_package_id, shipment_estimate_id.

        • typestring
          • One of: "order_item", "shipment_cost"
      • quantityobject
        Child fields (2)
        • typestring
          • Always "unit"
        • totaldecimal pair

          The quantity. A decimal pair: the amount is value ÷ 10^dp ({ "value": 1250, "dp": 2 } is 12.50). Read dp every time: it can differ between fields and records.

      • The shipment.

      • typestring

        Same as product.type.

      • weightobject

        The order line's weight (_meta.total, _meta.unit).

    • Lock versions after the change.

      Child fields (2)
      • orderobject

        The order's lock versions: job_lock_version, invoice_lock_version, order_item_lock_version, shipment_lock_version, payment_lock_version, order_lock_version.

      • shipmentobject

        The shipment's lock versions: shipment_item_lock_version, shipment_lock_version.

  • statusintegerrequired
  • successbooleanrequired

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 edit this order.
    Fix
    Ask the team owner to adjust your role or assign you to the order.
  • 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
    The line isn't your team's.
    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 or draft rule (see rules).
    Fix
    Handle it in Shopify, or publish the order.