---
title: "Deletes a Membership"
method: DELETE
path: "/api/2026-10-01/resources/teams/memberships/{id}"
tags: ["Teams > Membership"]
---

# Deletes a Membership

`DELETE /api/2026-10-01/resources/teams/memberships/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.factorialhr.com`
- URL: `https://api.factorialhr.com/api/2026-10-01/resources/teams/memberships/{id}`
- Auth: one of:
  - OAuth 2
    - Authorization code: `https://id.factorialhr.com/oauth/authorize`
    - Token URL: `https://id.factorialhr.com/api/oauth/token` scopes: `employees`
  - API key in header `x-api-key`

Delete the membership to remove the employee from the team. For companies with nested teams what actually gets deleted depends on the kind of row: deleting a direct membership removes it, and the inherited copies it produced in the ancestor teams are cleaned up asynchronously. Deleting an INHERITED membership instead removes the employee's direct membership in EVERY sub-team that row originates from — rows with other ids, in teams you did not name — and the request is rejected altogether if you cannot manage one of those sub-teams. The inherited row you named also disappears asynchronously rather than in the request, so an immediate re-read may still return it; repeating the DELETE is safe rather than an error. Read that employee's memberships with `with_source_attribution` before deleting to see what is at stake: `direct` indicates which kind of row it is, and `source_team_ids` where the deletion would land. Both are advisory — the read and the delete resolve their answers independently, so re-read after deleting rather than assuming which branch ran.

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- TeamsMembership
  - `id` string, required: Membership ID
  - `company_id` string: Company ID of the membership
  - `employee_id` string, required: Employee ID of the membership
  - `team_id` string, required: Team ID of the membership
  - `lead` boolean, required: Whether the employee is a lead of the team or not
  - `source_team_ids` string[], required: IDs of the teams this membership originates from (nested teams). In a company with nested teams, a direct membership includes the team itself; an inherited one, the sub-team(s) where the employee is a direct member. Only populated on reads that compute source attribution — reads filtered by a single team, or by a single employee with `with_source_attribution` enabled. Empty otherwise, including create, update and delete responses, and always empty for companies without nested teams. An empty array does not distinguish "computed and genuinely empty" from "not computed for this read" or "could not be computed", so only apply attribution-dependent logic to a read you explicitly shaped for it. A team-anchored read stops attributing above roughly a thousand members of the filtered team: past that the attribution is not computed at all and every row comes back empty, behind a normal `200`.
  - `parent_team_ids` string[], required: IDs of the ancestor teams that receive an inherited membership through this row (nested teams) — the teams this membership rolls up into. Populated under the same conditions as `source_team_ids`; empty otherwise.
  - `direct` boolean: Whether the employee is a direct member of the team (nested teams). Always present. `true` means direct member; `false` means the row exists only through inheritance from a sub-team; `null` means not computed for this read. Only computed on reads filtered by a single employee with `with_source_attribution` enabled — always `null` otherwise, including create, update and delete responses and companies without nested teams. `null` is also returned when directness could not be resolved for a transient reason, even with `with_source_attribution` enabled, so never treat `null` as `false` — retry the read instead.

## Changes

- **2026-11-03** `83ac9aa1de50`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/factorialhr/apis/factorial-api/changes/api/2026-10-01/resources/teams/memberships/:id/delete.md)

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