# Delete customer

Delete a customer. All mandates and subscriptions created for this customer will be canceled as well.

> 🔑 Access with
>
> [API key](/reference/authentication)
>
> [Organization access token with **customers.write**](/reference/authentication)
>
> [OAuth access with **customers.write**](/reference/authentication)

# OpenAPI definition

```json
{
  "openapi": "3.1.0",
  "info": {
    "title": "Recurring",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "license": {
      "name": "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International",
      "identifier": "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0"
    }
  },
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://api.mollie.com/v2"
    }
  ],
  "security": [
    {
      "apiKey": []
    },
    {
      "organizationAccessToken": []
    },
    {
      "oAuth": []
    }
  ],
  "paths": {
    "/customers/{customerId}": {
      "parameters": [
        {
          "name": "customerId",
          "description": "Provide the ID of the related customer.",
          "in": "path",
          "required": true,
          "schema": {
            "type": "string",
            "pattern": "^cst_.+$",
            "example": "cst_5B8cwPMGnU"
          }
        }
      ],
      "delete": {
        "summary": "Delete customer",
        "x-speakeasy-name-override": "delete",
        "tags": [
          "Customers API"
        ],
        "operationId": "delete-customer",
        "security": [
          {
            "apiKey": []
          },
          {
            "organizationAccessToken": [
              "customers.write"
            ]
          },
          {
            "oAuth": [
              "customers.write"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "description": "Delete a customer. All mandates and subscriptions created for this customer will be canceled as well.\n\n> 🔑 Access with\n>\n> [API key](/reference/authentication)\n>\n> [Organization access token with **customers.write**](/reference/authentication)\n>\n> [OAuth access with **customers.write**](/reference/authentication)",
        "requestBody": {
          "content": {
            "application/json": {
              "schema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "testmode": {
                    "type": [
                      "boolean",
                      "null"
                    ],
                    "description": "Most API credentials are specifically created for either live mode or test mode, in which case this parameter must not be sent. For organization-level credentials such as OAuth access tokens, you can enable test mode by setting `testmode` to `true`.\n\nTest entities cannot be retrieved when the endpoint is set to live mode, and vice versa.",
                    "writeOnly": true,
                    "example": false
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "responses": {
          "204": {
            "description": "An empty response.",
            "content": {
              "application/hal+json": {
                "schema": {},
                "example": {}
              }
            }
          },
          "404": {
            "description": "No entity with this ID exists.",
            "content": {
              "application/hal+json": {
                "schema": {
                  "type": "object",
                  "description": "An error response object.",
                  "required": [
                    "status",
                    "title",
                    "detail",
                    "_links"
                  ],
                  "properties": {
                    "status": {
                      "type": "integer",
                      "description": "The status code of the error message. This is always the same code as the status code of the HTTP message itself.",
                      "minimum": 400,
                      "maximum": 599,
                      "example": 404
                    },
                    "title": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "The HTTP reason phrase of the error. For example, for a `404` error, the `title` will be `Not Found`.",
                      "example": "Not Found"
                    },
                    "detail": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "A detailed human-readable description of the error that occurred.",
                      "example": "The resource does not exist"
                    },
                    "field": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "If the error was caused by a value provided by you in a specific field, the `field` property will contain the name of the field that caused the issue.",
                      "example": "description"
                    },
                    "_links": {
                      "type": "object",
                      "required": [
                        "documentation"
                      ],
                      "properties": {
                        "documentation": {
                          "type": "object",
                          "description": "The URL to the generic Mollie API error handling guide.",
                          "required": [
                            "href",
                            "type"
                          ],
                          "properties": {
                            "href": {
                              "type": "string",
                              "example": "https://docs.mollie.com/errors"
                            },
                            "type": {
                              "type": "string",
                              "example": "text/html"
                            }
                          }
                        }
                      }
                    }
                  }
                },
                "example": {
                  "status": 404,
                  "title": "Not Found",
                  "detail": "No entity exists with token 'uct_abcDEFghij123456789'",
                  "_links": {
                    "documentation": {
                      "href": "...",
                      "type": "text/html"
                    }
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "x-readme": {
          "code-samples": [
            {
              "language": "shell",
              "code": "curl -X DELETE https://api.mollie.com/v2/customers/cst_8wmqcHMN4U \\\n    -H \"Authorization: Bearer live_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM\""
            },
            {
              "language": "php",
              "code": "<?php\nuse Mollie\\Api\\Http\\Requests\\DeleteCustomerRequest;\nuse Mollie\\Api\\MollieApiClient;\n\n$mollie = new MollieApiClient();\n$mollie->setApiKey(\"live_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM\");\n\n$mollie->send(new DeleteCustomerRequest(\n    id: \"cst_8wmqcHMN4U\"\n));",
              "install": "composer require mollie/mollie-api-php"
            },
            {
              "language": "node",
              "code": "const { createMollieClient } = require('@mollie/api-client');\nconst mollieClient = createMollieClient({ apiKey: 'live_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM' });\n\nconst customer = await mollieClient.customers.delete('cst_8wmqcHMN4U');",
              "install": "npm install @mollie/api-client"
            },
            {
              "language": "python",
              "code": "from mollie.api.client import Client\n\nmollie_client = Client()\nmollie_client.set_api_key(\"live_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM\")\n\ncustomer = mollie_client.customers.delete(\"cst_8wmqcHMN4U\")",
              "install": "pip install mollie-api-python"
            },
            {
              "language": "ruby",
              "code": "require 'mollie-api-ruby'\n\nMollie::Client.configure do |config|\n  config.api_key = 'live_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM'\nend\n\ncustomer = Mollie::Customer.delete('cst_8wmqcHMN4U')",
              "install": "gem install mollie-api-ruby"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "components": {
    "securitySchemes": {
      "apiKey": {
        "type": "http",
        "scheme": "bearer",
        "x-default": "live_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM"
      },
      "organizationAccessToken": {
        "type": "http",
        "scheme": "bearer",
        "x-default": "access_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM"
      },
      "oAuth": {
        "type": "oauth2",
        "flows": {
          "authorizationCode": {
            "authorizationUrl": "https://my.mollie.com/oauth2/authorize",
            "tokenUrl": "https://api.mollie.com/oauth2/tokens",
            "scopes": {}
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "x-readme": {
    "explorer-enabled": false,
    "samples-languages": [
      "shell",
      "php",
      "node",
      "python",
      "ruby"
    ]
  }
}
```