---
title: "Delete payment method"
method: DELETE
path: "/api/billing-payment-methods/{sid}"
tags: ["billing_payment_methods"]
---

# Delete payment method

`DELETE /api/billing-payment-methods/{sid}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://beta.getsales.io/id/v1`
- URL: `https://beta.getsales.io/id/v1/api/billing-payment-methods/{sid}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer and API key in header `Team-SID`

Remove a saved payment method from the payer's list at Paddle. The card a live plan bills on is refused (409 payment_method_in_use) until the plan is moved to another card with get_billing_payment_method_add_link; so is a card another subscription of the same payer uses. Idempotent: a method Paddle no longer holds answers already_deleted. The item is {sid, name}, a neutral label with no card data; soft_deleted false (Paddle removes it).

Contract:
- MCP tool `delete_billing_payment_method`, registry package `mcp.id/billing_payment_methods`, mount `id.billing`.
- Operation `delete`, response envelope `delete_simple`.
- Flags: dangerous: the MCP layer gates it behind a preview/commit token, and the effect cannot be undone through this API.

## Path parameters

- `sid` string, required: Paddle payment method id (paymtd_...): a raw Paddle id, not an 18-char platform sid.

## Response `200`

`delete_simple` success envelope.

- DeleteBillingPaymentMethodResponse
  - `success` true, required
  - `operation` 'delete', required
  - `item` object, required
  - `already_deleted` boolean, required
  - `soft_deleted` boolean, required
  - `retained` string[], required
  - `meta` object, required
    - `trace_id` string, required: UUID v7; same 128-bit value as the X-Trace-Id header.
    - `span_id` string, required: 16 hex chars, root span of this request.
    - `timestamp` string, required: ISO 8601 UTC (Y-m-dTH:i:sZ), response time.
    - `duration_ms` integer, required: Server-side wall clock.
    - `team_sid` string, nullable: The team this call ran in (the token team, or the team_sid override). Null when unauthenticated; absent from pre-2026-08-20 backends.
    - `actor_type` string, nullable: user | agent | api_key | system. Null when unauthenticated; absent from pre-2026-08-20 backends.

## Other responses

- `4XX`: MCP error envelope. `error.code` is one of validation_failed, nothing_to_update, not_found, relation_not_found, invalid_transition, limit_exceeded, payment_required, duplicate_rejected, conflict, delete_blocked, unauthorized, forbidden, rate_limited, not_implemented.
- `5XX`: MCP error envelope with `error.code` internal_error or service_unavailable.

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/getsales/apis/getsales-public-contract-gs-service-id.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/getsales/apis/getsales-public-contract-gs-service-id/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/getsales/apis/getsales-public-contract-gs-service-id/revisions/95e48541fe85?raw)