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# Stop and delete a campaign

> Stops the campaign and deletes it. This is a soft delete: sending halts immediately, open task mirrors are cleared, and the campaign disappears from GET /business/campaigns and from GET /business/campaigns/{campaignId}. Contacts keep their per-contact state, and sends already delivered are unaffected. Deleting a campaign that is already deleted answers 404, like every other endpoint here: once deleted, a campaign does not exist on this surface. Only the token owner's own campaigns can be deleted. Rate limit: this endpoint and POST /business/campaigns/{campaignId}/stop share a tighter cap of 10 requests/minute and 100/day, applied inside the shared campaigns bucket of 30 requests/minute and 1,000/day per token owner (shared by every campaign, scheduled-send, campaign-template and knowledge-hub endpoint).

Errors:
- `404` `CAMPAIGN_NOT_FOUND` — No campaign with this id exists, it belongs to another account (including a campaign delegated to you or shared by your team's visibility settings), or it has been deleted.
- `409` `CAMPAIGN_BUSY` — Another approve or stop is holding this campaign's activation lock. Retry in a few seconds.
- `422` `VALIDATION_FAILED` — campaignId is not a 24-character hex id.
- `429` `RATE_LIMITED` — Either this endpoint's own cap (10 requests/minute, 100/day) or the shared campaigns bucket (30/minute, 1,000/day for this token owner, shared by every /business/campaigns, /business/scheduled-sends, /business/campaign-templates and /business/knowledge-hubs call) was exceeded. The RateLimit-* headers on the response describe the shared bucket, so a refusal from this endpoint's own cap can still report requests remaining and carries no Retry-After.
- `500` `UNEXPECTED_ERROR` — An unhandled failure; the detail stays in our logs and is never returned.

Requires one of the following token scopes: campaigns.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.json delete /business/campaigns/{campaignId}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Fuse Business API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    External API for lists, campaigns, prospect search and contacts.
    Authenticate with your API token as HTTP Basic. All paths are under /api/v1.
servers:
  - url: https://api.tryfuse.ai/api/v1
    description: Production
security:
  - basicAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Lists
  - name: Custom columns
  - name: Smart columns
  - name: Exports
  - name: Campaigns
  - name: Knowledge hubs
  - name: Analytics
  - name: Website intent
  - name: Account
  - name: Prospect search
  - name: Campaign steps
  - name: Scheduled sends
  - name: Campaign templates
  - name: Agents
  - name: Research
  - name: Company search
  - name: Saved searches
  - name: Folders
  - name: Contacts
paths:
  /business/campaigns/{campaignId}:
    delete:
      tags:
        - Campaigns
      summary: Stop and delete a campaign
      description: >-
        Stops the campaign and deletes it. This is a soft delete: sending halts
        immediately, open task mirrors are cleared, and the campaign disappears
        from GET /business/campaigns and from GET
        /business/campaigns/{campaignId}. Contacts keep their per-contact state,
        and sends already delivered are unaffected. Deleting a campaign that is
        already deleted answers 404, like every other endpoint here: once
        deleted, a campaign does not exist on this surface. Only the token
        owner's own campaigns can be deleted. Rate limit: this endpoint and POST
        /business/campaigns/{campaignId}/stop share a tighter cap of 10
        requests/minute and 100/day, applied inside the shared campaigns bucket
        of 30 requests/minute and 1,000/day per token owner (shared by every
        campaign, scheduled-send, campaign-template and knowledge-hub endpoint).


        Errors:

        - `404` `CAMPAIGN_NOT_FOUND` — No campaign with this id exists, it
        belongs to another account (including a campaign delegated to you or
        shared by your team's visibility settings), or it has been deleted.

        - `409` `CAMPAIGN_BUSY` — Another approve or stop is holding this
        campaign's activation lock. Retry in a few seconds.

        - `422` `VALIDATION_FAILED` — campaignId is not a 24-character hex id.

        - `429` `RATE_LIMITED` — Either this endpoint's own cap (10
        requests/minute, 100/day) or the shared campaigns bucket (30/minute,
        1,000/day for this token owner, shared by every /business/campaigns,
        /business/scheduled-sends, /business/campaign-templates and
        /business/knowledge-hubs call) was exceeded. The RateLimit-* headers on
        the response describe the shared bucket, so a refusal from this
        endpoint's own cap can still report requests remaining and carries no
        Retry-After.

        - `500` `UNEXPECTED_ERROR` — An unhandled failure; the detail stays in
        our logs and is never returned.


        Requires one of the following token scopes: campaigns.
      operationId: deleteCampaign
      parameters:
        - name: campaignId
          in: path
          required: true
          description: >-
            The campaign's id (24-character hex ObjectId), as returned by POST
            /business/campaigns or as the campaignId of a GET
            /business/campaigns row.
          schema:
            type: string
            description: >-
              The campaign's id (24-character hex ObjectId), as returned by POST
              /business/campaigns or as the campaignId of a GET
              /business/campaigns row.
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Deleted
          headers:
            RateLimit-Limit:
              schema:
                type: integer
              description: Requests permitted in the current window.
            RateLimit-Remaining:
              schema:
                type: integer
              description: Requests remaining in the current window.
            RateLimit-Reset:
              schema:
                type: integer
              description: Seconds until the current window resets.
        '400':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '401':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '402':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '403':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '404':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '409':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '422':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '500':
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      security:
        - basicAuth: []
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
            message:
              type: string
            param:
              type:
                - string
                - 'null'
            doc_url:
              type:
                - string
                - 'null'
            request_id:
              type:
                - string
                - 'null'
          required:
            - code
            - message
      required:
        - error
  securitySchemes:
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: >-
        Your API token (`af_…`) as the Basic-auth username, with an empty
        password.

````