> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://code.dcycle.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Delete Use of Sold Products (v2)

> Delete up to 5,000 uses of sold products by id, with their emissions, asynchronously, as an ingest job

[← Sold Products API](/api-reference/sold-products/overview)

Delete uses of sold products by id, with their emissions. The period, its sales and the product stay: the period is
left with no use, and a later [Create Use of Sold Products (v2)](/api-reference/use-of-sold-products/create-v2) for it
is calculated from scratch. The request checks every id and answers `202 Accepted` with an
[ingest job](/api-reference/ingest-jobs/get) that deletes them in the background (see
[how bulk ingestion works](/api-reference/ingest-jobs/overview)). Follow it with
[`GET /v2/ingest-jobs/{id}`](/api-reference/ingest-jobs/get) or, for a job submitted with an API key, the
[`ingest_job.finished`](/api-reference/webhooks/overview) webhook.

The ids are the `entity_id` of the items of the job that created the uses, or the `use_of_product_data_id` of
[Period Emissions](/api-reference/sold-products/emissions).

> [!WARNING]
>
> **Permanent.** Deleted uses and their emissions cannot be recovered. Use `dry_run=true` first if you are not sure.

> [!WARNING]
>
> **Beta.** Part of the bulk ingest API, in beta. The contract may still change before general availability.

```bash cURL theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark"}}
curl -X POST "https://api.dcycle.io/v2/use-of-sold-products/delete" \
  -H "x-api-key: ${DCYCLE_API_KEY}" \
  -H "x-organization-id: ${DCYCLE_ORG_ID}" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: 9e8d7c6b-5a4f-4e3d-8c2b-1a0f9e8d7c6b" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ids": ["7d6c5b4a-3f2e-4d1c-9b0a-8f7e6d5c4b3a"]}'
```

```python Python theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark"}}
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.dcycle.io/v2/use-of-sold-products/delete",
    headers={
        "x-api-key": os.environ["DCYCLE_API_KEY"],
        "x-organization-id": os.environ["DCYCLE_ORG_ID"],
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),  # keep it to retry this same batch
    },
    json={"ids": ["7d6c5b4a-3f2e-4d1c-9b0a-8f7e6d5c4b3a"]},
    timeout=60,
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json()["id"])
```

```json 202 theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark"}}
{
  "id": "6d5c4b3a-2918-4f07-8e6d-5c4b3a29180f",
  "status": "processing",
  "entity_type": "use_of_product",
  "operation": "delete",
  "source": "api_bulk",
  "counts": { "submitted": 1, "succeeded": 0, "failed": 0 },
  "chunks_total": 1,
  "chunks_done": 0,
  "created_at": "2026-10-21T09:24:17.552Z",
  "finished_at": null,
  "links": {
    "self": "/v2/ingest-jobs/6d5c4b3a-2918-4f07-8e6d-5c4b3a29180f",
    "items": "/v2/ingest-jobs/6d5c4b3a-2918-4f07-8e6d-5c4b3a29180f/items"
  }
}
```

```json 422 theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark"}}
{
  "type": "https://code.dcycle.io/api-reference/errors#BULK_RECORDS_REJECTED",
  "title": "Unprocessable Entity",
  "status": 422,
  "code": "BULK_RECORDS_REJECTED",
  "detail": "1 of the submitted records are invalid; nothing was written.",
  "errors": [
    {
      "source_row_index": 0,
      "client_row_id": null,
      "error_code": "NOT_FOUND",
      "error_params": { "field": "ids", "value": "7d6c5b4a-3f2e-4d1c-9b0a-8f7e6d5c4b3a" }
    }
  ],
  "rejected": 1,
  "request_id": "b2248a31-0f1b-4a7d-83ce-b29bd5977b4c"
}
```

```json 200 (dry_run=true) theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark"}}
{ "dry_run": true, "submitted": 1, "valid": 1 }
```

## How it works

1. **The request checks every id.** One that does not exist, is outside your organization's
   [perimeter](/api-reference/ingest-jobs/overview#perimeter) or is repeated rejects the **whole** request with `422`,
   and nothing is deleted.
2. **The job deletes them in the background**, 200 uses per chunk. Each use goes with the emissions it produced on
   every country sale of its period (with their calculation steps) and its calculation settings; those of a year that
   another period of the product still uses stay.
3. **When every chunk is done** the job is `completed` (or `completed_with_errors`). For a job submitted with an API
   key, `ingest_job.finished` is sent with `"operation": "delete"` to the webhook endpoints of the `x-organization-id`
   organization.

## Request

### Headers

**x-api-key** `string` *required*

Your API key (see [Authentication](/api-reference/introduction#authentication)).

**x-organization-id** `string` *required*

The organization the uses are deleted for. The uses of its products, and of those of the organizations under it
(its [perimeter](/api-reference/ingest-jobs/overview#perimeter)), can be deleted.

**Idempotency-Key** `string` *required*

1 to 255 characters, one per batch, looked up per organization across every v2 bulk route. Within 24 hours, the
same key with the same route and body returns the original job (with `Idempotent-Replayed: true`); the same key with
another body or on another route is `422 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED`, and while the first request is still being
processed `409 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_IN_PROGRESS`. After 24 hours the key is free, and a request with it is a new one. See
[The Idempotency-Key](/api-reference/ingest-jobs/overview#the-idempotency-key).

### Query Parameters

**dry\_run** `boolean` (default: false)

Check only: the same `422` for bad ids, nothing deleted, no job; `200` with `{"dry_run": true, "submitted": n,
    "valid": n}` when every id is valid. It does not check or store the `Idempotency-Key`.

### Body Parameters

**ids** `array[uuid]` *required*

Use of sold product ids, 1 to 5,000, each once.

## Response

`202 Accepted` with the job (`entity_type: use_of_product`, `operation: delete`) and a `Location` header to it.
[`GET /v2/ingest-jobs/{id}/items`](/api-reference/ingest-jobs/list-items) has one item per use, in the order sent;
an item is `failed` with `DELETE_FAILED` when its use was already gone by the time the job reached it.

## Errors

[Problem details](/api-reference/errors). Per-id codes in `errors[].error_code` of a `422 BULK_RECORDS_REJECTED`
(`source_row_index` is the position in `ids`):

| `error_code` | Cause |
| - | - |
| `NOT_FOUND` | The use does not exist or is outside your organization's [perimeter](/api-reference/ingest-jobs/overview#perimeter) (both answer the same). |
| `DUPLICATE_ID` | The use is already in the request. |

Request-level errors: `401` for a missing or invalid API key, `403 LOGGED_USER_NOT_MEMBER` when the key's user is not a
member of the organization, `422 REQUEST_VALIDATION_FAILED` for a malformed body (no `ids`, more than 5,000, no
`Idempotency-Key`), `422 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED`, `409 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_IN_PROGRESS`, and `429` beyond the
[rate limits](/api-reference/rate-limits).

## Limits

| Limit | Value |
| - | - |
| Ids per request | 1 to 5,000 |
| Uses per deletion chunk | 200 |

## Related Endpoints

> **[Create Use of Sold Products (v2)](/api-reference/use-of-sold-products/create-v2)**
>
> Set or replace the use of periods in bulk

> **[Delete Sold Products (v2)](/api-reference/sold-products/delete-v2)**
>
> Delete whole products, with their periods and uses

> **[Period Emissions](/api-reference/sold-products/emissions)**
>
> Find the id of a period's use

> **[Get Ingest Job](/api-reference/ingest-jobs/get)**
>
> Follow the deletion


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