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  • Getting Started
    • Introduction
    • How Verifa Works
    • Quickstart
    • Choosing an Integration Method
  • Use Cases
    • KYC Onboarding
    • Age Verification
    • AML Compliance
    • Fraud Prevention
    • Marketplace Trust & Safety
  • Core Concepts
    • Overview
    • Sessions
    • Verifications & Checks
    • Workflows
    • Identities
    • Cases
    • Screening & Reports
    • Lists
  • Integration Guides
    • Overview
    • JavaScript SDK
    • Web Capture Flow
    • API-Only Integration
    • Mobile SDK
    • Webhooks Guide
    • MCP Server
    • Migrating from Persona
  • API Details
    • Overview
    • Authentication
    • Pagination
    • Rate Limiting
    • Versioning
    • Errors
    • Webhooks
    • Idempotency
    • Key Inflection
    • Data Access
    • Data Retention
  • Tutorials
    • Creating Your First Verification Session
    • Creating a Workflow
    • Receiving Webhooks & Validating Signatures
    • Handling Webhook Events
    • Custom Document Types & AI Extraction
  • Best Practices
    • Testing
    • Preventing Duplicates
    • Fraud Signals
    • Changelog
  • API Reference
      • GETList document types
      • POSTCreate a document type
      • DELDelete a document type
      • PATCHUpdate a document type
      • GETList document groups
      • POSTCreate a document group
      • DELDelete a document group
      • PATCHUpdate a document group
API ReferenceDocument Types

Delete a document type

DELETE
https://devapi.withverifa.com/api/v1/settings/document-types/:type_id
DELETE
/api/v1/settings/document-types/:type_id
$curl -X DELETE https://devapi.withverifa.com/api/v1/settings/document-types/type_id \
>     -H "X-API-Key: <apiKey>"
1{}

Permanently deletes a custom document type. Cannot be deleted if documents are currently using this type.

Required scope: settings:write (or legacy documents:write).

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Authentication

X-API-Keystring

Organization API key. Keys are prefixed with vk_live_ (production) or vk_sandbox_ (sandbox).

Path parameters

type_idstringRequired
Document type ID.

Headers

Verifa-VersiondateOptional

API version date string (e.g. 2026-02-01). If omitted, the version pinned to your API key is used.

Response

Document type deleted.

Errors

401
Unauthorized Error
404
Not Found Error
422
Unprocessable Entity Error