Permanently Delete User

DELETE {{baseUrl}}/api/v2/deleted_users/:deleted_user_id

Before permanently deleting a user, you must delete the user first. See Delete User.

WARNING: Permanently deleting a user deletes all of their information. This information is not recoverable.

Permanent user deletion rate limit

You can permanently delete 700 users every 10 minutes. The rate limiting mechanism behaves as described in Rates Limits in the API introduction. Zendesk recommends that you obey the Retry-After header values.

Allowed For

  • Agents, with restrictions on certain actions

HEADERS

KeyDatatypeRequiredDescription
Acceptstring

RESPONSES

status: OK

{"deleted_user":{"active":false,"created_at":"2019-08-26T02:10:24Z","email":null,"id":189304711533,"locale":"en-US","locale_id":1,"name":"David","organization_id":null,"phone":null,"photo":null,"role":"end-user","shared_phone_number":null,"time_zone":"Eastern Time (US \u0026 Canada)","updated_at":"2019-08-26T02:10:27Z","url":"https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/189304711533"}}