Terminate contract | Deel

Initiates termination of an active contract, recording the termination reason, effective date, and any final payment details. Can only be called on contracts that are currently active. Token scopes: contracts:write

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

Authentication

The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail.

1 curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \
2   -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'

Learn more about authentication

## Authentication The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail. ```curl curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE' ``` [Learn more about authentication](/api/authentication)

AuthorizationBearer

Standard OAuth2 security scheme based on https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication/

Path parameters

contract_idstringRequired

The unique identifier of the contractor contract

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

dataobjectRequired

Termination data. At minimum, you must provide either terminate_now: true (for immediate termination) OR completion_date (for scheduled termination).

Response

Successful operation

dataobject

Errors

400

Bad Request Error

401

Unauthorized Error

403

Forbidden Error

404

Not Found Error

409

Conflict Error

500

Internal Server Error

$	curl -X POST https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts/eq2ykjw/terminations \
>	-H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
>	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>	-d '{
>	"data": {}
>	}'

1	curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \
2	-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'