# DELETE /addoncategory/{{categroy_id}} — Delete Addon Category

> Product: **Pabbly Subscription Billing** (v1)
> Base URL: `https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1`
> Auth: Basic via `Authorization` header
> Canonical: `/subscription-billing/add-on-category/delete-addon-category`

This API can be used if you want to delete the addon category. It will be fired in the DELETE request along with the category Id in the link. In response you will get the success message of the delete addon category.

**Path parameters:**

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|------|------|----------|-------------|
| categroy_id | string | Yes |  |

**Response (200)** — Delete Addon Category:

```json
{
    "status": "success",
    "message": "Addon category deleted successfully"
}
```

**Code examples:**

_cURL_

```curl
curl -X DELETE https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/addoncategory/{{categroy_id}} \
  -u {{YOUR_API_KEY}}:{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}
```

_Ruby_

```ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/addoncategory/{{categroy_id}}')
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri)
request.basic_auth '{{YOUR_API_KEY}}', '{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}'

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
  http.request(request)
end

data = JSON.parse(response.body)
```

_Python_

```python
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

response = requests.delete(
    'https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/addoncategory/{{categroy_id}}',
    auth=HTTPBasicAuth('{{YOUR_API_KEY}}', '{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}'),
)

data = response.json()
```

_PHP_

```php
<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/addoncategory/{{categroy_id}}');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'DELETE');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, '{{YOUR_API_KEY}}:{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}');

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$data = json_decode($response, true);
```

_Java_

```java
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.util.Base64;

String credentials = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString("{{YOUR_API_KEY}}:{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}".getBytes());

HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
HttpRequest.Builder builder = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/addoncategory/{{categroy_id}}"))
    .header("Authorization", "Basic " + credentials)
    .DELETE();

HttpRequest request = builder.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
System.out.println(response.body());
```

_Node.js_

```node
const credentials = Buffer.from('{{YOUR_API_KEY}}:{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}').toString('base64');

const response = await fetch('https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/addoncategory/{{categroy_id}}', {
  method: 'DELETE',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `Basic ${credentials}`,
  },
});

const data = await response.json();
```

_Go_

```go
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "net/http"
)

func main() {
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", "https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/addoncategory/{{categroy_id}}", nil)
    req.SetBasicAuth("{{YOUR_API_KEY}}", "{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}")

    res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    defer res.Body.Close()
    body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}
```

_.NET_

```dotnet
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

var credentials = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("{{YOUR_API_KEY}}:{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}"));

var client = new HttpClient();
var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Delete, "https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/addoncategory/{{categroy_id}}");
request.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("Authorization", $"Basic {credentials}");

var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
var data = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
Console.WriteLine(data);
```

---

**Other endpoints in Add-on Category:**

- [POST /addoncategory — Create Category](/subscription-billing/add-on-category/create-category)
- [GET /addoncategory/{{addon_id}} — Get Single Category](/subscription-billing/add-on-category/get-single-category)
- [GET /addonlistcategory/{{product_id}} — List All Addon Categories By Product Id:](/subscription-billing/add-on-category/list-all-addon-categories-by-product-id)
- [PUT /addoncategory/{{category_id}} — Update Category](/subscription-billing/add-on-category/update-category)