---
title: "Update a Business Unit"
method: PATCH
path: "/v2/business-units/{business_unit_id}"
tags: ["business-units"]
---

# Update a Business Unit

`PATCH /v2/business-units/{business_unit_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.stuut.ai` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.stuut.ai/v2/business-units/{business_unit_id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Rename a business unit or edit its description / customer-facing display name (PATCH: only fields
present are applied). Requires organization admin.

## Path parameters

- `business_unit_id` string, required

## Request body

- UpdateBusinessUnitRequest: PATCH: only fields present in the request are applied.
  - `name` string, nullable: The name of the business unit.
  - `description` string, nullable: Optional description of the business unit.
  - `display_name` string, nullable: Customer-facing BU name for outbound content; NULL uses the organization name.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- BusinessUnit
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required
  - `modified_at` string, date-time, nullable, required
  - `id` string, required
  - `name` string, required: The name of the business unit.
  - `description` string, nullable, required: Optional description of the business unit.
  - `display_name` string, nullable, required: Customer-facing BU name for outbound content; NULL uses the organization name.
  - `default_phone_number_id` string, nullable, required: The BU's fallback number, used when none of its numbers match the destination country.
  - `business_identity_id` string, nullable, required: The BU's own legal entity / Twilio Secondary Profile; NULL if it shares the org's identity.
  - `verification_status` 'draft' | 'pending_review' | 'in_review' | 'twilio_approved' | 'twilio_rejected', required: Verification state of a business identity's Twilio Secondary Profile. Member names mirror Twilio's vocabulary, so the only difference from its wire strings is the separator — Twilio hyphenates (``twilio-approved``) where a Python name can't. ``from_twilio`` converts on that one character, which keeps the hyphenated spelling out of the enum, the column (which stores the NAME) and our API without a lookup table to keep in sync.
  - `member_ids` string[], required
  - `object` string, required: String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value.

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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