> ## Documentation Index
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# Delete customer external account

> Delete one customer-bound external account for your authenticated platform on the canonical `/customers/external-accounts` public path family.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi/blips-public-reference.yaml delete /customers/external-accounts/{accountId}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: BLIPS Public Reference API
  version: '2026-04-08'
  description: >-
    Public OpenAPI 3.1 subset for the first BLIPS Mintlify API Reference and
    Playground release. This document is bound to the confirmed Public Test
    Backend at https://public-test.blips.network, includes only the approved
    first-release public endpoints, uses only internal `$ref` values, and
    excludes callback-only webhook documentation and operator-only surfaces.
servers:
  - url: https://public-test.blips.network
    description: >-
      Confirmed Public Test Backend ingress target for public BLIPS API
      Reference, Playground, and internet-testable Try It flows.
security:
  - BasicAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Platform Setup
    description: >-
      Bootstrap and platform configuration surfaces for establishing the public
      BLIPS integration context.
  - name: Sandbox API
    description: >-
      Sandbox-only externally displayed helper surfaces. These routes either
      adjust quote inputs or create incoming-payment review cases, but they
      always feed the existing quote or transaction families and never become
      second outward API families.
  - name: Tokens
    description: >-
      Platform-scoped API credential create, list, detail, and revoke
      operations.
  - name: Customers
    description: >-
      Customer onboarding, profile lifecycle, and PPV payment-address issuance
      surfaces.
  - name: Accounts
    description: >-
      Customer-bound internal-account and external-account surfaces kept in the
      first-layer public contract.
  - name: Same-Currency Transfers
    description: >-
      Same-currency receiver lookup plus incoming and outgoing transfer
      primitives.
  - name: Cross-Currency Transfers
    description: >-
      PPV-first receiver lookup, quote creation/readback, and quote execution
      for cross-currency flows.
  - name: Transactions
    description: Transaction readback plus bounded incoming-review decision operations.
  - name: Webhooks
    description: >-
      Webhook connectivity verification surface for the public BLIPS
      integration.
paths:
  /customers/external-accounts/{accountId}:
    delete:
      tags:
        - Accounts
      summary: Delete customer external account
      description: >-
        Delete one customer-bound external account for your authenticated
        platform on the canonical `/customers/external-accounts` public path
        family.
      operationId: deleteExternalAccount
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ExternalAccountId'
        - name: customerId
          in: query
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
          description: Customer identifier required by the canonical delete contract.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: External account deleted.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExternalAccountDeleteResponse'
              examples:
                deleted:
                  value:
                    deleted: true
                    accountId: ext_acc_php_001
        '400':
          description: Invalid account id or invalid delete query.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: >-
                  #/components/schemas/CustomerExternalAccountDeleteMvpErrorResponse
              examples:
                invalidRequest:
                  value:
                    status: 400
                    code: INVALID_REQUEST
                    message: Invalid external account delete query
                    details: {}
        '401':
          description: Invalid or missing API credentials.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: >-
                  #/components/schemas/CustomerExternalAccountDeleteMvpErrorResponse
              examples:
                unauthorized:
                  value:
                    status: 401
                    code: UNAUTHORIZED
                    message: Invalid or missing API credentials
                    details: {}
        '404':
          description: Customer or account not found for the supplied scope.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: >-
                  #/components/schemas/CustomerExternalAccountDeleteMvpErrorResponse
              examples:
                notFound:
                  value:
                    status: 404
                    code: NOT_FOUND
                    message: External account not found
                    details: {}
        '410':
          description: Referenced customer already deleted.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: >-
                  #/components/schemas/CustomerExternalAccountDeleteMvpErrorResponse
              examples:
                gone:
                  value:
                    status: 410
                    code: GONE
                    message: Customer already deleted
                    details: {}
        '500':
          description: Internal service error.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: >-
                  #/components/schemas/CustomerExternalAccountDeleteMvpErrorResponse
              examples:
                internalError:
                  value:
                    status: 500
                    code: INTERNAL_ERROR
                    message: Internal service error
                    details: {}
      security:
        - BasicAuth: []
components:
  parameters:
    ExternalAccountId:
      name: accountId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: >-
        Bound external-account identifier for the receiver being resolved for
        same-currency funding or payout.
      schema:
        type: string
  schemas:
    ExternalAccountDeleteResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        deleted:
          type: boolean
        accountId:
          type: string
      required:
        - deleted
        - accountId
      additionalProperties: true
    CustomerExternalAccountDeleteMvpErrorResponse:
      type: object
      description: Public error envelope for customer external-account delete failures.
      additionalProperties: false
      required:
        - status
        - code
        - message
        - details
      properties:
        status:
          type: integer
          description: >-
            HTTP status code returned for the failed customer external-account
            delete request.
        code:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Stable public error code for the failed customer external-account
            delete request.
        message:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Human-readable summary of the customer external-account delete
            failure.
        details:
          type: object
          nullable: true
          additionalProperties: true
          description: Additional structured error context when present.
  securitySchemes:
    BasicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: >-
        Integration-key Basic Auth (`clientId:clientSecret`) as documented in
        docs/public/AUTHENTICATION.md.

````