# CANNOT_DELETE_PRIMARY

The account's primary company cannot be deleted.

<Callout type="info">
**Category:** [Companies](/errors/category/subaccount)
</Callout>

| | |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | `400` Bad Request |
| Retry | No |

## When it happens

The company is the account's primary NIF, which cannot be deleted.

## How to fix it

Nothing to retry: the primary company stays with the account.

## Retry

Do not retry. The outcome is final: sending the same request again gets the same answer.

## Returned by

The operations where this code is most likely. The list is not exhaustive.

- [`DELETE /v1/companies/{company_id}`](/companies/deleteCompanyById)

## Example response

When this error occurs, the API answers `400` Bad Request with a JSON body of this shape:

```json
{
  "type": "https://docs.beel.es/errors/CANNOT_DELETE_PRIMARY",
  "title": "CANNOT_DELETE_PRIMARY",
  "detail": "The account's primary company cannot be deleted.",
  "instance": "/v1/<resource>",
  "errors": [],
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "CANNOT_DELETE_PRIMARY",
    "message": "The account's primary company cannot be deleted.",
    "details": {}
  },
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2026-05-21T10:00:00Z",
    "request_id": "4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736"
  }
}
```

The `type` URI is stable and always resolves to this page.

## Message

<Tabs items={["English", "Spanish", "Catalan"]}>
  <Tab value="English">{"The account's primary company cannot be deleted."}</Tab>
  <Tab value="Spanish">{"No se puede eliminar la empresa principal de la cuenta."}</Tab>
  <Tab value="Catalan">{"No es pot eliminar l'empresa principal del compte."}</Tab>
</Tabs>

Send the request with `Accept-Language: <es|en|ca>` to receive the message in your preferred language.

## Other errors in this category

<div className="grid grid-cols-2 gap-3 not-prose">
  <Card title="ACCOUNT_HAS_NO_HOLDER" description="The target account has no registered holder yet, so a NIF cannot be created on its behalf" href="/errors/ACCOUNT_HAS_NO_HOLDER" />
  <Card title="CHECKOUT_REQUIRED" description="A payment method is required to create a production company" href="/errors/CHECKOUT_REQUIRED" />
  <Card title="COMPANY_ACTIVE_IN_PRODUCTION" description="This company is active in Live and cannot be deleted. Deactivate it in Live first: the deactivation is scheduled, the current cycle is charged and served in full, and from its effective date you will be able to delete the company" href="/errors/COMPANY_ACTIVE_IN_PRODUCTION" />
  <Card title="COMPANY_HAS_INVOICES" description="This company has invoices in Live and cannot be deleted. Delete its drafts and proformas first; if it has already issued invoices, the way out is to deactivate it in Live, not to delete it" href="/errors/COMPANY_HAS_INVOICES" />
  <Card title="NIF_ALREADY_REGISTERED" description="The NIF is already registered" href="/errors/NIF_ALREADY_REGISTERED" />
</div>

## Keep exploring

<div className="grid grid-cols-2 gap-3 not-prose">
  <Card title="All Companies errors" description="Every code in this category in one table." href="/errors/category/subaccount" />
  <Card title="Error reference home" description="Browse every category or jump to the handling guide." href="/errors" />
</div>

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Full OpenAPI spec: https://docs.beel.es/api/openapi