Cancel Time Off

Changed on Oct 3, 2026

Cancel a time off request that was already approved.

Authentication

This endpoint accepts any one of the following token types:

Company-scoped access token (OAuth2AuthorizationCode) — obtained through the Authorization Code flow or the Refresh Token flow. See Authentication for partners.
Customer API token (CustomerAPIToken) — generated by the customer on their Integration Settings page. See Authorization for customers.

Scopes

Category	Read only Scope	Write only Scope (read access implicit)
Manage timeoffs (time_and_attendance)	-	Manage timeoffs (timeoff:write)

post/v1/timeoff/{timeoff_id}/cancel

Request

Base URL: https://gateway.remote.com
URL: https://gateway.remote.com/v1/timeoff/{timeoff_id}/cancel
Auth: HTTP bearer and OAuth 2 (authorization code, authorization URL /auth/oauth2/authorize, token URL /auth/oauth2/token, scopes: https://gateway.remote.com/company.manage, timeoff:write, time_and_attendance, all:write)

Path parameters

timeoff_idstring required

Time Off ID

Request body

cancel_reasonstring required

Example request

{
  "cancel_reason": "Business purposes"
}

Response

Success

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "timeoff": {
      "automatic": false,
      "document": {
        "id": "9880b711-file-id-ecf8f551bd78",
        "inserted_at": "2021-07-15T18:18:17Z",
        "name": "id.pdf",
        "sub_type": "personal_id",
        "type": "id"
      },
      "employment_id": "5e55386e-4f4f-4def-92f4-bdc19a5ce77d",
      "end_date": "2021-12-21",
      "id": "0073fcb5-b669-4e4a-b963-2a47744e75a1",
      "leave_policy": {
        "leave_policy_variant_slug": "663e0b79-c893-45ff-a1b2-f6dcabc098b5",
        "leave_type": "sick_leave",
        "name": "Self-Care"
      },
      "notes": "Some notes",
      "start_date": "2021-12-20",
      "status": "approved",
      "timeoff_days": [
        {
          "day": "2021-12-20",
          "hours": 8,
          "minutes": 480
        },
        {
          "day": "2021-12-21",
          "hours": 8,
          "minutes": 480
        }
      ],
      "timeoff_type": "paid_time_off",
      "timezone": "Asia/Kolkata",
      "total_minutes": 960
    }
  }
}

Changes

Oct 3, 202684069084fd5e Revision changes
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  removed subschema #1 subschema #2 from the response body anyOf list for the response status
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  added the optional property to the response with the status
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  added the required property to the response with the status
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  added the required property to the response with the status
Sep 3, 2026f85250f1f879 Revision changes
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Operation history (4 revisions)