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# Delete a sales return

> Deletes a sales return: the return itself is soft-deleted (no longer returned), but its line items are permanently removed.

Linked stock transactions are NOT auto-reversed — delete them separately via `/v1/transactions/{tx_id}` if you need to restore inventory.

`DELETE https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/returns/{return_id}`

## Authorizations

- `Authorization` (string, required): Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer <token>`, where `<token>` is your [API token](https://www.boxhero.io/docs/developers/api/authentication).

## Path parameters

- `return_id` (integer, minimum 0, maximum 2147483647, required)

## Request body

- `revision` (integer, minimum 0, maximum 9007199254740991): Latest observed return revision. Omit to use the current revision.

## Responses

**200** The return has been deleted.

**400** Invalid request body, or the team is not in LOCATION mode.

- `id` (string, required): Unique exception id (`ex_` followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. `ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a`). Quote this in support tickets so we can find the request in our logs.
- `type` (string, required): Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on `title`.

  Possible values: `/errors/not-found`, `/errors/invalid-request`, `/errors/invalid-team-mode`, `/errors/tokens/invalid`, `/errors/tokens/required`, `/errors/too-many-requests`, `/errors/core/usage-limit-exceeded`, `/errors/core/forbidden`, `/errors/core/unhandled`, `/errors/unhandled`
- `title` (string, required): Human-readable summary of the error, in English.
- `correlationID` (string, required): Request correlation id (`rq_` followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. `rq_01abf3...`). Identical to the `X-Correlation-Id` response header. A client-supplied `X-Correlation-Id` request header (at most 128 chars of `A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ : / = -`) is echoed back here and in the response header; a missing or invalid value is silently replaced with a generated `rq_…` id.
- `instance` (string): Pointer to the specific failing resource (e.g. `/items/12345`). Path-only, no `/v1` version prefix. Absent on unknown-path `404` and unexpected `500` responses.
- `code` (string): Sub-reason code surfaced from upstream BoxHero core (on core-mapped 4xx) or from the gateway itself (e.g. `not-available-for-api-token` on 403). Use this for fine-grained branching after dispatching on `type`.
- `errors` (array of object): Field-level error details. Present on request-validation `/errors/invalid-request` (400) responses. Absent on malformed-JSON `400`, `413` body-too-large, and most errors mapped from BoxHero core (which include it only when core supplies an array; this can include `403`). Each entry locates a single failure via JSONPath-like `path` segments and a human-readable `message`.

  - `path` (array of string | number, required)
  - `message` (string, required)

**401** Missing, invalid, or revoked API token. `/errors/tokens/required` when no Bearer token is sent; `/errors/tokens/invalid` when the token is unknown or revoked (a revoked token may keep working for up to 60 seconds because validation results are cached).

- `id` (string, required): Unique exception id (`ex_` followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. `ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a`). Quote this in support tickets so we can find the request in our logs.
- `type` (string, required): Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on `title`.

  Possible values: `/errors/not-found`, `/errors/invalid-request`, `/errors/invalid-team-mode`, `/errors/tokens/invalid`, `/errors/tokens/required`, `/errors/too-many-requests`, `/errors/core/usage-limit-exceeded`, `/errors/core/forbidden`, `/errors/core/unhandled`, `/errors/unhandled`
- `title` (string, required): Human-readable summary of the error, in English.
- `correlationID` (string, required): Request correlation id (`rq_` followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. `rq_01abf3...`). Identical to the `X-Correlation-Id` response header. A client-supplied `X-Correlation-Id` request header (at most 128 chars of `A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ : / = -`) is echoed back here and in the response header; a missing or invalid value is silently replaced with a generated `rq_…` id.
- `instance` (string): Pointer to the specific failing resource (e.g. `/items/12345`). Path-only, no `/v1` version prefix. Absent on unknown-path `404` and unexpected `500` responses.
- `code` (string): Sub-reason code surfaced from upstream BoxHero core (on core-mapped 4xx) or from the gateway itself (e.g. `not-available-for-api-token` on 403). Use this for fine-grained branching after dispatching on `type`.
- `errors` (array of object): Field-level error details. Present on request-validation `/errors/invalid-request` (400) responses. Absent on malformed-JSON `400`, `413` body-too-large, and most errors mapped from BoxHero core (which include it only when core supplies an array; this can include `403`). Each entry locates a single failure via JSONPath-like `path` segments and a human-readable `message`.

  - `path` (array of string | number, required)
  - `message` (string, required)

**404** No return with the given id was found in this team.

- `id` (string, required): Unique exception id (`ex_` followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. `ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a`). Quote this in support tickets so we can find the request in our logs.
- `type` (string, required): Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on `title`.

  Possible values: `/errors/not-found`, `/errors/invalid-request`, `/errors/invalid-team-mode`, `/errors/tokens/invalid`, `/errors/tokens/required`, `/errors/too-many-requests`, `/errors/core/usage-limit-exceeded`, `/errors/core/forbidden`, `/errors/core/unhandled`, `/errors/unhandled`
- `title` (string, required): Human-readable summary of the error, in English.
- `correlationID` (string, required): Request correlation id (`rq_` followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. `rq_01abf3...`). Identical to the `X-Correlation-Id` response header. A client-supplied `X-Correlation-Id` request header (at most 128 chars of `A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ : / = -`) is echoed back here and in the response header; a missing or invalid value is silently replaced with a generated `rq_…` id.
- `instance` (string): Pointer to the specific failing resource (e.g. `/items/12345`). Path-only, no `/v1` version prefix. Absent on unknown-path `404` and unexpected `500` responses.
- `code` (string): Sub-reason code surfaced from upstream BoxHero core (on core-mapped 4xx) or from the gateway itself (e.g. `not-available-for-api-token` on 403). Use this for fine-grained branching after dispatching on `type`.
- `errors` (array of object): Field-level error details. Present on request-validation `/errors/invalid-request` (400) responses. Absent on malformed-JSON `400`, `413` body-too-large, and most errors mapped from BoxHero core (which include it only when core supplies an array; this can include `403`). Each entry locates a single failure via JSONPath-like `path` segments and a human-readable `message`.

  - `path` (array of string | number, required)
  - `message` (string, required)

**409** The supplied revision is stale.

- `id` (string, required): Unique exception id (`ex_` followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. `ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a`). Quote this in support tickets so we can find the request in our logs.
- `type` (string, required): Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on `title`.

  Possible values: `/errors/not-found`, `/errors/invalid-request`, `/errors/invalid-team-mode`, `/errors/tokens/invalid`, `/errors/tokens/required`, `/errors/too-many-requests`, `/errors/core/usage-limit-exceeded`, `/errors/core/forbidden`, `/errors/core/unhandled`, `/errors/unhandled`
- `title` (string, required): Human-readable summary of the error, in English.
- `correlationID` (string, required): Request correlation id (`rq_` followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. `rq_01abf3...`). Identical to the `X-Correlation-Id` response header. A client-supplied `X-Correlation-Id` request header (at most 128 chars of `A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ : / = -`) is echoed back here and in the response header; a missing or invalid value is silently replaced with a generated `rq_…` id.
- `instance` (string): Pointer to the specific failing resource (e.g. `/items/12345`). Path-only, no `/v1` version prefix. Absent on unknown-path `404` and unexpected `500` responses.
- `code` (string): Sub-reason code surfaced from upstream BoxHero core (on core-mapped 4xx) or from the gateway itself (e.g. `not-available-for-api-token` on 403). Use this for fine-grained branching after dispatching on `type`.
- `errors` (array of object): Field-level error details. Present on request-validation `/errors/invalid-request` (400) responses. Absent on malformed-JSON `400`, `413` body-too-large, and most errors mapped from BoxHero core (which include it only when core supplies an array; this can include `403`). Each entry locates a single failure via JSONPath-like `path` segments and a human-readable `message`.

  - `path` (array of string | number, required)
  - `message` (string, required)

**429** Rate limit exceeded. Limits are per team and shared by all of the team's API tokens: 5 requests per second and 300 requests per minute. The `RateLimit` and `X-RateLimit-*` headers reflect the per-minute window; check them and `Retry-After` before retrying. This status is also returned when the client IP exceeds 30 failed authentication attempts within 60 seconds, even if the token is valid.

- `id` (string, required): Unique exception id (`ex_` followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. `ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a`). Quote this in support tickets so we can find the request in our logs.
- `type` (string, required): Stable, machine-readable error code (RFC 7807-style URI fragment). Branch your error handling on this, not on `title`.

  Possible values: `/errors/not-found`, `/errors/invalid-request`, `/errors/invalid-team-mode`, `/errors/tokens/invalid`, `/errors/tokens/required`, `/errors/too-many-requests`, `/errors/core/usage-limit-exceeded`, `/errors/core/forbidden`, `/errors/core/unhandled`, `/errors/unhandled`
- `title` (string, required): Human-readable summary of the error, in English.
- `correlationID` (string, required): Request correlation id (`rq_` followed by 32 lowercase hex chars, no dashes — e.g. `rq_01abf3...`). Identical to the `X-Correlation-Id` response header. A client-supplied `X-Correlation-Id` request header (at most 128 chars of `A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ : / = -`) is echoed back here and in the response header; a missing or invalid value is silently replaced with a generated `rq_…` id.
- `instance` (string): Pointer to the specific failing resource (e.g. `/items/12345`). Path-only, no `/v1` version prefix. Absent on unknown-path `404` and unexpected `500` responses.
- `code` (string): Sub-reason code surfaced from upstream BoxHero core (on core-mapped 4xx) or from the gateway itself (e.g. `not-available-for-api-token` on 403). Use this for fine-grained branching after dispatching on `type`.
- `errors` (array of object): Field-level error details. Present on request-validation `/errors/invalid-request` (400) responses. Absent on malformed-JSON `400`, `413` body-too-large, and most errors mapped from BoxHero core (which include it only when core supplies an array; this can include `403`). Each entry locates a single failure via JSONPath-like `path` segments and a human-readable `message`.

  - `path` (array of string | number, required)
  - `message` (string, required)

Request

**cURL**

```bash
curl --request DELETE \
  --url 'https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/returns/{return_id}' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $BOXHERO_API_TOKEN" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "revision": 3
  }'
```

**JavaScript**

```javascript
const response = await fetch("https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/returns/{return_id}", {
  method: "DELETE",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BOXHERO_API_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "revision": 3
  }),
});
const data = await response.json();
```

**Python**

```python
import os
import requests

response = requests.delete(
    "https://rest.boxhero-app.com/v1/returns/{return_id}",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["BOXHERO_API_TOKEN"],
    },
    json={
        "revision": 3,
    },
)
data = response.json()
```

**HTTP**

```http
DELETE /v1/returns/{return_id} HTTP/1.1
Host: rest.boxhero-app.com
Authorization: Bearer <token>
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "revision": 3
}
```

Response

**200**

```json
{}
```

**400**

```json
{
  "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a",
  "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40",
  "type": "/errors/invalid-request",
  "title": "Invalid request body, or the team is not in LOCATION mode.",
  "instance": "/returns/12345"
}
```

**401**

```json
{
  "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a",
  "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40",
  "type": "/errors/tokens/required",
  "title": "Missing API token. Provide a Bearer token in the Authorization header.",
  "instance": "/returns/12345",
  "example": "Bearer wqnot0dlysdg5vymubzi4kiv"
}
```

**404**

```json
{
  "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a",
  "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40",
  "type": "/errors/not-found",
  "title": "No return with the given id was found in this team.",
  "instance": "/returns/12345"
}
```

**409**

```json
{
  "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a",
  "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40",
  "type": "/errors/invalid-request",
  "title": "The supplied revision is stale.",
  "instance": "/returns/12345"
}
```

**429**

```json
{
  "id": "ex_8f5c0c8e0e0a4a3c9b3f4f2c4f6c8d2a",
  "correlationID": "rq_01abf3c2b8e44a59be2a9c0f1e7d6a40",
  "type": "/errors/too-many-requests",
  "title": "Too many requests.",
  "instance": "/returns/12345",
  "retryAfter": 60
}
```