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Delete a customer (deprecated)

Scopecustomers:write

Deletes a customer that has no invoices.

What deleting means

  • No longer exposed: the customer is retained internally for tax record-keeping purposes, but is no longer exposed by the API: subsequent requests to it return 404, and it is never included in the customer list, under any value of the active filter.
  • Identifier released: its NIF or alternative identifier is freed, so a new customer may be created with the same identifier.

Customers you cannot delete

  • Customers with invoices: they cannot be deleted and the request answers 409 CLIENT_HAS_INVOICES, leaving the customer untouched — neither deleted nor deactivated.
  • Customers used by a recurring invoice: while an active or paused recurring invoice has the customer as its recipient, the request answers 400 REFERENCED_BY_RECURRING_INVOICE.
  • Deactivating instead: to stop using a customer, whether or not it has invoices, update it with active set to false: that releases no identifier and keeps the customer retrievable through GET /v1/customers?active=false.

Retires on 9 December 2026. See the migration guide for what moved where and what changes when you switch.

DELETE
/v1/customers/{customer_id}

Authorization

AuthorizationBearer <token>

Keys are prefixed beel_sk_, and each one carries the scopes it was created with: a key short of the scope an operation needs is answered 403. The scope an operation requires is shown next to its title, and the full catalogue lives in the Scopes reference.

Keys are created from the BeeL dashboard. They are secret credentials: do not share them or commit them to source control.

In: header

Path Parameters

customer_idstring

Customer ID

Formatuuid

Response Body

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

curl -X DELETE "https://app.beel.es/api/v1/customers/550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"
{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "message": "Customer deleted successfully"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "The provided data is not valid",
    "details": {
      "field": "specific error message"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  },
  "type": "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES",
  "title": "INVOICE_NO_LINES",
  "detail": "The invoice must have at least one line",
  "instance": "/v1/invoices/abc-123"
}
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
    "message": "Authentication is required to access this resource"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "FORBIDDEN",
    "message": "You do not have permission to access this resource"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "INVOICE_NOT_FOUND",
    "message": "Invoice not found"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "The provided data is not valid",
    "details": {
      "field": "specific error message"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  },
  "type": "https://docs.beel.es/errors/INVOICE_NO_LINES",
  "title": "INVOICE_NO_LINES",
  "detail": "The invoice must have at least one line",
  "instance": "/v1/invoices/abc-123"
}
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED",
    "message": "Too many requests. Please try again in 60 seconds."
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "INTERNAL_ERROR",
    "message": "Internal server error"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE",
    "message": "Unsupported media type: text/plain. Supported: application/json"
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}

Update a customer partially (deprecated) PATCH

Updates only the fields present in the body, leaving every other field of the customer as it is. - **Null vs omitted:** a field sent as `null` is cleared, which is different from omitting it (see `PatchCustomerRequest`). The result goes through the same validation as `PUT`. - **AEAT census:** the customer's Spanish tax identifier is only checked against the AEAT census when the request changes the `nif` or the `legal_name`. Editing anything else never asks the census. For a **legal entity** the census checks the CIF only and its `legal_name` is not verified, so the name never causes the rejection; only a **natural person**'s NIF is crossed with the name. Duplicate and format checks run on every update. - **Deprecated:** use `PATCH /v1/companies/{company_id}/customers/{customer_id}`, which behaves identically. **Retires on 9 December 2026.** See the [migration guide](https://docs.beel.es/changelog/resources-under-the-nif) for what moved where and what changes when you switch.

Download the customer import template (deprecated) POST

Downloads a sample CSV for customer import: the required headers plus example rows, written with a UTF-8 byte order mark so that Excel opens it with the accents intact. - **Deprecated:** use `GET /v1/templates/customer-import`, which returns the same file. Reading a fixed template is not a `POST`, and the template belongs to no customer. - **Retirement:** the response announces the retirement date in its `Sunset` header. **Retires on 9 December 2026.** See the [migration guide](https://docs.beel.es/changelog/resources-under-the-nif) for what moved where and what changes when you switch.