---
title: "Delete an email template draft"
method: DELETE
path: "/v1/email/templates/{template_ref}/versions/{version_id}"
tags: ["email-templates"]
---

# Delete an email template draft

`DELETE /v1/email/templates/{template_ref}/versions/{version_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com`
- URL: `https://us1.platform.bird.com/v1/email/templates/{template_ref}/versions/{version_id}`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in cookie `bird_session`

Discards the draft's unsaved work: its content resets to what is currently published (or to a single empty language when nothing has been published yet), so the draft matches what sends actually deliver again. Compare each language's `content_hash` against the published version's to see what a discard would throw away.

The draft itself remains, ready for new edits at a bumped `revision`, and what is published never changes. Only the draft can be discarded. Addressing a published version returns a `422` `validation_error`, because published versions are permanent history.

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string
- `X-Workspace-Id` string
- `X-Organization-Id` string

## Response `204`

The draft was reset.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request
- `401`: Authentication required
- `403`: Insufficient permissions
- `404`: Resource not found
- `409`: Resource conflict
- `422`: The request has invalid field values, violates a business rule, or carries a query parameter the endpoint does not declare. Field validation errors use `type: validation_error` and include the affected fields in `details`. Business-rule errors identify the failed rule in `type`.
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded
- `500`: Internal server error
- `503`: The service is temporarily unavailable. If `Retry-After` is present, wait for that delay before retrying; otherwise, retry with exponential backoff. Reuse the same idempotency key and request when retrying a mutation.

---

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