---
title: "Revoke an invitation"
method: DELETE
path: "/v1/accounts/{account_id}/invitations/{invitation_id}"
tags: ["Invitations"]
---

# Revoke an invitation

`DELETE /v1/accounts/{account_id}/invitations/{invitation_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.beel.es/api`
- URL: `https://app.beel.es/api/v1/accounts/{account_id}/invitations/{invitation_id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Revokes a `PENDING` invitation, so its acceptance link stops working.

- **Already resolved:** an `ACCEPTED`, `REVOKED` or `EXPIRED` invitation cannot be
  revoked, and answers `404` without disclosing which of the three it is.
- **History:** revoking does not remove the invitation from the list.

## Response `204`

Invitation revoked successfully

## Other responses

- `401`: Missing or invalid authentication. Like every other error, `message`/`detail` is localized according to `Accept-Language` (`es`, `en`, `ca`); defaults to English when the header is missing or asks for none of those.
- `403`: Every cause listed under the plain `403` above, plus the two that govern a change to the people of an account: `MEMBER_MANAGEMENT_FORBIDDEN`, when your role in the account does not manage its members, invitations or grants (only an `OWNER` or an `ADMIN` does), and `LIVE_CREDENTIAL_REQUIRED`, when the call is made with a test API key (`beel_sk_test_…`): members, invitations and grants are shared between Test and Live, so changing them is always a real change. Use your live API key or the dashboard.
- `404`: `PENDING_INVITATION_NOT_FOUND` — no revocable invitation with that id exists in the account. Returned both when the invitation does not exist and when it exists but is not in PENDING state (state is not disclosed). It is a different code from the `INVITATION_NOT_FOUND` of `GET /v1/accounts/{account_id}/invitations/{invitation_id}`, which reads invitations in any state.
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded. `RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` when the request rate of your credential is over its limit; `TOO_MANY_REQUESTS` when an email the operation sends is held back because too many went out to that recipient in a short time. Either way, retry after the `Retry-After` seconds. `QUOTA_EXCEEDED` is the other `429`: the operation would go over a quota of your plan for the current period (issued invoices, for instance). Retrying does not help until the quota resets or the plan changes. `error.details` carries `feature_code`, `current_usage`, `quota_limit` and `reset_date`, and `RateLimit-Reset` the seconds until the reset when it is known.
- `500`: Internal server error
- `default`: Any status code the operation does not list above. Every operation declares it, so a generated client always has a branch to fall into and never loses the cause of a failure it did not anticipate. This is where the transport-level answers land — `405`, `406`, `415` and `429` — together with any status a future version of the API starts returning. All of them carry the same error envelope as the codes listed explicitly, so `error.code` is what tells them apart: switching on the status code alone is not enough. See «Transport-level errors» in the API description for when each one is produced. A `402` carrying `SUBSCRIPTION_REQUIRED` lands here when the account has no active subscription. `error.details` says why and what to do: `current_status` (absent if it never had one), `required_permission` and `action`. A `503` carrying `SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE` lands here too, with a `Retry-After` header: a dependency of BeeL itself (the database, the email provider) was momentarily unavailable and nothing was done. Retry after those seconds. A `502` carrying `EXTERNAL_SERVICE_ERROR` also lands here: an outbound integration the operation depends on failed or did not answer in time. It is a transient condition — retry with the same `Idempotency-Key` where the operation accepts one. One exception to the envelope: a failure of the network edge that never reaches the application (`502`, `503`, `504`, `524`) is generated by Cloudflare and its body is not BeeL's — it may not even be JSON. Treat those as "no answer", and retry.

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