Customers
Delete Customer by External ID
Delete a customer by external ID.
Immediately cancels any active subscriptions and revokes any active benefits.
Set anonymize=true to also anonymize PII for GDPR compliance.
Scopes: customers:write
DELETE
/
v1
/
customers
/
external
/
{external_id}
python (new sdk)
from polar.v2026_04 import Polar
polar = Polar("polar_oat_xxx")
polar.customers.delete_external(
'string',
anonymize=False,
)import { createPolar } from "@polar-sh/sdk/2026-04";
const polar = createPolar({
accessToken: "polar_oat_xxx",
});
await polar.customers.deleteExternal(
"string",
{
"anonymize": false
},
);
curl --request DELETE \
--url https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id} \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id}"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'DELETE', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id}"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.delete("https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id}")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id}")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"error": "<string>",
"detail": "<string>"
}{
"detail": [
{
"loc": [
"<string>"
],
"msg": "<string>",
"type": "<string>",
"input": "<unknown>",
"ctx": {}
}
]
}Authorizations
patoat
Path Parameters
The customer external ID.
Query Parameters
If true, also anonymize the customer's personal data for GDPR compliance.
Response
Customer deleted.
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python (new sdk)
from polar.v2026_04 import Polar
polar = Polar("polar_oat_xxx")
polar.customers.delete_external(
'string',
anonymize=False,
)import { createPolar } from "@polar-sh/sdk/2026-04";
const polar = createPolar({
accessToken: "polar_oat_xxx",
});
await polar.customers.deleteExternal(
"string",
{
"anonymize": false
},
);
curl --request DELETE \
--url https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id} \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id}"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.delete(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'DELETE', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "DELETE",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id}"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("DELETE", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.delete("https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id}")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.polar.sh/v1/customers/external/{external_id}")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"error": "<string>",
"detail": "<string>"
}{
"detail": [
{
"loc": [
"<string>"
],
"msg": "<string>",
"type": "<string>",
"input": "<unknown>",
"ctx": {}
}
]
}