Unapply a credit memo from invoices

Operation ID: unapplyCreditMemo

Group: Accounting › Credit Memos

POST /accounting/credit-memos/{id}/unapply

Retry-safe: A write that accepts Idempotency-Key: repeating a request with the same key replays the stored answer instead of executing twice.

Unapplies a credit memo from invoices. Each reversal is recorded as a negative allocation. The original allocation stays, so applications on GET accounting/credit-memos/:id lists both the allocation and its reversal.

The response is empty.

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
`Api-Version`	header	string · v1	yes	The API version this request targets, named by its public identifier. Required on every request; omitting it, or naming a version this company does not have, is answered with 400. This document describes version `v1`.
`Idempotency-Key`	header	string	no	An opaque caller-chosen string (1-255 characters) that makes this request safe to retry. Repeating the same key with an identical request body replays the original response instead of re-executing - but only once that original request succeeded; a failed attempt re-executes on retry. Repeating the key with a different body is answered with 422. A key still in flight is answered with 409 - as is a key whose original request was interrupted before it finished, for a few minutes afterwards, until that attempt is presumed dead. A completed response stays replayable for 24 hours. The key is scoped to the caller, not to the action: reusing it for a different action is answered with 409 or 422 rather than treated independently. On read actions this header is ignored. On write actions that cannot offer the guarantee it is answered with `400 IDEMPOTENCY_NOT_SUPPORTED` rather than silently ignored.
`id`	path	string	yes	The unique identifier of the credit memo you want to unapply.

Request body

Required, application/json: unapplyCreditMemoInput.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`applications`	array<object>	yes	The reversals to record. At least one is required. Several rows may target the same invoice, and are summed against what is currently applied to it.
`applications[].invoiceId`	string	yes	The invoice to release the credit from. See id on GET accounting/invoices/:id.
`applications[].appliedAmount`	decimal	yes	The amount to reverse, in the credit memo currency. Must be positive. It is stored as a negative row and may not exceed what is currently applied to this invoice.
`applications[].appliedDate`	date	yes	The date the reversal is recorded. Use format YYYY-MM-DD. It must fall in an open accounting period.

{
  "applications": [
    {
      "invoiceId": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
      "appliedAmount": "19.99",
      "appliedDate": "2026-01-15"
    }
  ]
}

Response

200 Success

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}

Response headers

Idempotency-Replayed — Present and true only when this response replays a previously stored one for the same Idempotency-Key, rather than reflecting a live execution. Absent on a live response - never sent as false.

Errors

Code	Status
`NOT_FOUND`	400
`INVOICE_NOT_FOUND`	400
`NO_APPLICATIONS`	400
`UNAPPLY_EXCEEDS_APPLIED`	400
`IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_CONFLICT`	409
`IDEMPOTENCY_PAYLOAD_MISMATCH`	422

Statuses

400 — Invalid request or business failure. Codes: NOT_FOUND, INVOICE_NOT_FOUND, NO_APPLICATIONS, UNAPPLY_EXCEEDS_APPLIED
401 — The request carries no valid access token.
403 — Not authorized
404 — Not found
409 — The Idempotency-Key is still being processed by another request.
422 — The Idempotency-Key was already used with a different request payload.
429 — Too many requests from this client address. The response has no body and no Retry-After header.
500 — Internal server error