# DELETE /customers/{{customer_id}} — Delete Customer

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

This API can be used to delete the customer. The API will be fired with DELETE request along with the customer Id in the API link. In response you will get the successful message of delete Customer.

**Path parameters:**

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

**Response (200)** — Delete Customer:

```json
{
    "status": "success",
    "message": "Customer data deleted"
    
}
```

**Code examples:**

_cURL_

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

_Ruby_

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

uri = URI('https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/customers/{{customer_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/customers/{{customer_id}}',
    auth=HTTPBasicAuth('{{YOUR_API_KEY}}', '{{YOUR_SECRET_KEY}}'),
)

data = response.json()
```

_PHP_

```php
<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://payments.pabbly.com/api/v1/customers/{{customer_id}}');
curl_setopt($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/customers/{{customer_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/customers/{{customer_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/customers/{{customer_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/customers/{{customer_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 Customers:**

- [GET /customer/{{customer_id}} — Get Single Customer via Customer ID](/subscription-billing/customers/get-single-customer-via-customer-id)
- [GET /customer/ — Get Single Customer via Customer Email](/subscription-billing/customers/get-single-customer-via-customer-email)
- [GET /customer/purchase-info/{{customer_id}} — Get Customer Purchase Information](/subscription-billing/customers/get-customer-purchase-information)
- [GET /customers — List All Customers](/subscription-billing/customers/list-all-customers)
- [PUT /customer/{{customer_id}} — Update Customer Detail](/subscription-billing/customers/update-customer-detail)
- [POST /subscription — Create Customer With Subscription](/subscription-billing/customers/create-customer-with-subscription)
- [POST /customer — Create Customer](/subscription-billing/customers/create-customer)