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DELETE
/
categories
/
{id}
Delete a category
curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://api.salesive.com/api/v1/categories/{id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
{
  "status": 200,
  "success": true,
  "message": "Category deleted successfully",
  "data": {
    "detachedProducts": 24
  }
}
Deletes a category within the store; any products assigned to it are detached and the response reports how many were detached. The store is bound to your app token server-side — never send a shop id.

Authorizations

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Authorization
string
header
required

Installed-app access token (prefix app_), issued by the OAuth install flow. The store is bound to the token server-side — never send a shop id.

Path Parameters

​
id
string
required

The category id.

Response

The category was deleted; reports how many products were detached.

Standard Salesive response envelope. The operation-specific payload is carried in data.

​
status
integer
required

HTTP status code, echoed in the body.

​
success
boolean
required

Whether the request succeeded.

​
message
string
required

Human-readable result message.

​
data
object