Delete a contact

DELETE
/v1/contacts/{id}

Deletes the contact with its audience memberships and topic choices. Its suppressions stay: they are about the address, not the contact.

Authorization

bearerAuth
headerAuthorizationBearer <token>

A secret API key from the dashboard: coss_live_… for production environments, coss_test_… for sandbox environments.

Path Parameters

id*string

The contact's id, or its address (URL-encoded).

Header Parameters

Coss-Version?"2026-10-10"

The API version (a date) to use for this request. Defaults to your organization's version, pinned to the latest one when it first used the API and upgraded from the dashboard. The SDK always sends the version it was built for.

Value in"2026-10-10"

Response Body

The contact was deleted.

application/json
  1. response
object*"contact"
Value in"contact"
id*string
deleted*true
Value intrue
import { Coss } from "coss";const coss = new Coss({  apiKey: process.env.COSS_API_KEY,  baseUrl: "https://api.coss.com",});const { data, error } = await coss.email.contacts.remove("contact_01k7c8m4q2f3e9v6t5r1n0p8yz");
{  "object": "contact",  "id": "contact_01k7c8m4q2f3e9v6t5r1n0p8yz",  "deleted": true}