# DELETE /api/v1/businesses/{business_id}

> Delete business

- **Tag:** businesses
- **Operation ID:** `delete_business_api_v1_businesses__business_id__delete`

## Description

Delete a business and all associated resources (async via Temporal).

**Safety:** requires a JSON body with ``confirm_name`` matching the
business's name (case-insensitive, trimmed). Guards against single-click
muscle-memory deletes — this endpoint wipes ~80 related tables via a
Temporal workflow and is irreversible.

**Cleanup Process:**
1. For each Plaid connection:
   - Teal API cleanup (transactions, journal entries, source accounts, ledgers)
   - Local DB cleanup (Transactions → Line Entries → Journal Entries → Ledgers)
   - PlaidItem deletion
   - Plaid token revocation
2. Teal instance deletion
3. User associations cleanup
4. Business record deletion

**Notes:**
- Deletion runs asynchronously via Temporal workflow
- Returns immediately with workflow_id for status polling
- This action is irreversible

## Authentication

Bearer token in `Authorization` header.
Required header: `x-business-id: <business uuid>`.

## Parameters

- `business_id` (path, string, required)

## Request body

Schema: `BusinessDeleteRequest`

- `business_id` (string)
- `confirm_name` (string · required) — Exact business name as a typed confirmation. Must match the persisted business name (case-insensitive, trimmed). Required.
- `preserve_teal_instance` (boolean)
- `preserve_dz_users` (boolean)

## Responses

### 202 — Successful Response

Schema: `app__core__success__MessageResponse`

- `success` (boolean)
- `message` (string)
- `code` (string)

### 422 — Validation Error

Schema: `HTTPValidationError`

- `detail` (array · ValidationError) → `ValidationError`
  - `loc` (array · string | integer · required)
  - `msg` (string · required)
  - `type` (string · required)
  - `input` (object)
  - `ctx` (object)

## Code samples

### cURL

```bash
curl -X DELETE 'https://api.ondayzero.com/api/v1/businesses/{business_id}' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer dz_your_token' \
  -H 'x-business-id: YOUR_BUSINESS_ID' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "confirm_name": "string"
}'
```

### JavaScript

```javascript
const response = await fetch('https://api.ondayzero.com/api/v1/businesses/{business_id}', {
  method: 'DELETE',
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Bearer dz_your_token',
    'x-business-id': 'YOUR_BUSINESS_ID',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "confirm_name": "string"
}),
});
const data = await response.json();
```

### Python

```python
import httpx

headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer dz_your_token",
    "x-business-id": "YOUR_BUSINESS_ID",
}

payload = {
  "confirm_name": "string"
}

response = httpx.delete("https://api.ondayzero.com/api/v1/businesses/{business_id}", headers=headers, json=payload)
data = response.json()
```

## See also

- HTML version: https://www.ondayzero.com/docs/reference/businesses/delete-business
- OpenAPI slice: https://www.ondayzero.com/docs/reference/businesses/delete-business/openapi.json
- Other endpoints in **businesses**: https://www.ondayzero.com/docs/reference/businesses