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# Cancel a card

> Cancels a card permanently.

The card must be fully provisioned. Cancellation is irreversible; a new
card must be issued if the cardholder needs another card.



## OpenAPI

````yaml https://core.sandbox.gnosispay.in/partner-api/openapi.json post /v1/cards/{card_id}/cancel
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Gnosis Pay Partner API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    Server-to-server API for onboarding users, creating accounts and cards,
    moving

    funds, and managing the card lifecycle. Call this API only from a trusted

    backend. Every request requires a partner access token, and every resource
    is

    scoped to the authenticated partner.
servers:
  - url: https://core.prod.gnosispay.com/partner-api
    description: Production
    variables: {}
  - url: https://core.sandbox.gnosispay.in/core
    description: Sandbox
    variables: {}
security:
  - BearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Accounts
  - name: Cards
  - name: Card transactions
  - name: KYC
  - name: Deposits
  - name: Withdrawals
  - name: PCI
  - name: 3DS
  - name: Webhooks
paths:
  /v1/cards/{card_id}/cancel:
    post:
      tags:
        - Cards
      summary: Cancel a card
      description: |-
        Cancels a card permanently.

        The card must be fully provisioned. Cancellation is irreversible; a new
        card must be issued if the cardholder needs another card.
      operationId: cards.cancel.v1
      parameters:
        - name: card_id
          in: path
          required: true
          description: The card ID.
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/uuid'
      responses:
        '204':
          description: >-
            There is no content to send for this request, but the headers may be
            useful. 
        default:
          description: An unexpected error response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
  schemas:
    uuid:
      type: string
      format: uuid
    Error:
      type: object
      required:
        - code
        - message
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
          format: int32
          description: HTTP status code.
        message:
          type: string
          description: Generic human-readable text for the status code. Do not parse it.
        reason:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Stable machine-readable code identifying the specific cause, present
            only

            for errors that expose one (e.g. `CREATE_CARD_LIMIT_EXCEEDED`).
            Branch on

            this rather than on `message`.
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: Bearer

````

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