> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Deletes a contact.

> The contact is marked inactive, not removed, so its history on tickets and conversations
stays intact while it disappears from every list. A contact still attached to an unclosed
ticket, as its primary contact or in its secondary contacts, cannot be deleted, and the 409
message says how many tickets are holding it. The app detaches the contact from those
tickets itself; this endpoint will not edit a caller's tickets as a side effect, so it
refuses and leaves the reassignment to the caller. Deleting an already-deleted contact
succeeds, so a retried request is safe.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json delete /v1/contacts/{contactId}
openapi: 3.0.4
info:
  title: Public API
  description: Gorelo Public API documentation.
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://api.usw.gorelo.io
    description: US
  - url: https://api.aue.gorelo.io
    description: Australia
security:
  - ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Attachments
    description: "Uploading a file, for anything that can carry one. One endpoint rather than one per record\r\ntype, because the upload itself is identical - only the record it is checked against differs."
  - name: Alerts
    description: Alerts management operations
  - name: Assets
    description: Assets management operations
  - name: Billing
    description: Billing management operations
  - name: Tickets
    description: Tickets management operations
  - name: Clients
    description: Clients management operations
  - name: Contacts
    description: Contacts management operations
  - name: Deletions
    description: Deletions management operations
  - name: Documents
    description: Documents management operations
  - name: Forms
    description: Forms management operations
  - name: Organization
    description: Organization management operations
  - name: Projects
    description: Projects management operations
paths:
  /v1/contacts/{contactId}:
    delete:
      tags:
        - Contacts
      summary: Deletes a contact.
      description: "The contact is marked inactive, not removed, so its history on tickets and conversations\r\nstays intact while it disappears from every list. A contact still attached to an unclosed\r\nticket, as its primary contact or in its secondary contacts, cannot be deleted, and the 409\r\nmessage says how many tickets are holding it. The app detaches the contact from those\r\ntickets itself; this endpoint will not edit a caller's tickets as a side effect, so it\r\nrefuses and leaves the reassignment to the caller. Deleting an already-deleted contact\r\nsucceeds, so a retried request is safe."
      operationId: delete_v1_contacts_contactId
      parameters:
        - name: contactId
          in: path
          description: Contact to delete.
          required: true
          schema:
            type: integer
            format: int64
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteContactResultBaseResponse'
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteContactResultBaseResponse'
            text/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteContactResultBaseResponse'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectBaseResponse'
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectBaseResponse'
            text/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectBaseResponse'
        '404':
          description: Not Found
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectBaseResponse'
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectBaseResponse'
            text/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectBaseResponse'
        '409':
          description: Conflict
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectBaseResponse'
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectBaseResponse'
            text/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectBaseResponse'
        '500':
          description: Internal Server Error
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectBaseResponse'
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectBaseResponse'
            text/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ObjectBaseResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    DeleteContactResultBaseResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        StatusCode:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/HttpStatusCode'
        IsSuccess:
          type: boolean
        Data:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteContactResult'
        DataContext:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: false
          nullable: true
          example: null
        Notifications:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      additionalProperties: false
    ObjectBaseResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        StatusCode:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/HttpStatusCode'
        IsSuccess:
          type: boolean
        Data:
          nullable: true
        DataContext:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorDataContext'
        Notifications:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      additionalProperties: false
    HttpStatusCode:
      enum:
        - 100
        - 101
        - 102
        - 103
        - 200
        - 201
        - 202
        - 203
        - 204
        - 205
        - 206
        - 207
        - 208
        - 226
        - 300
        - 301
        - 302
        - 303
        - 304
        - 305
        - 306
        - 307
        - 308
        - 400
        - 401
        - 402
        - 403
        - 404
        - 405
        - 406
        - 407
        - 408
        - 409
        - 410
        - 411
        - 412
        - 413
        - 414
        - 415
        - 416
        - 417
        - 421
        - 422
        - 423
        - 424
        - 426
        - 428
        - 429
        - 431
        - 451
        - 500
        - 501
        - 502
        - 503
        - 504
        - 505
        - 506
        - 507
        - 508
        - 510
        - 511
      type: integer
      format: int32
    DeleteContactResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        Id:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      additionalProperties: false
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        Code:
          pattern: ^[0-9]{6}$
          type: string
          description: 6-digit MMTTNN error code. See the Public API error-code registry.
          example: '070101'
        Message:
          type: string
        PropertyName:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        ActionHint:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        DocUrl:
          type: string
          nullable: true
      additionalProperties: false
    ErrorDataContext:
      type: object
      properties:
        TraceId:
          type: string
          description: Request correlation id. Quote this when reporting a problem.
          nullable: true
      additionalProperties: false
      description: "The `DataContext` of an error response: carries the correlation id for the failed\r\nrequest."
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      description: >-
        Your Gorelo API key. See [Generate API key](/generate-api-key). If your
        data is hosted in Australia, click the base URL at the top of this page
        and select `https://api.aue.gorelo.io`.
      name: X-API-Key
      in: header

````

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