# Remove a trainee

`DELETE https://api.coach-platform.com/api/public/trainees/{traineeId}`

Remove a trainee from the coach account. This ends the active escort, cancels their upcoming meetings, unlinks their training plan and nutrition menu and deletes their gamification profile.

The trainee is archived rather than erased: their account, history and measurements are kept, they stop counting against your trainee limit, and they disappear from GET /trainees and from GET /trainees/{traineeId}, which answers 403 for them afterwards. List archived trainees with GET /trainees?status=archived and bring one back with POST /trainees/{traineeId}/restore.

- Resource: Trainees
- Authentication: API key in the `Authorization: Bearer cp_live_...` header
- HTML version: https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/delete-trainees-trainee-id
- OpenAPI spec: https://www.coach-platform.com/openapi.json

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `traineeId` | string | Yes |   |

## Header parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `Idempotency-Key` | string | No | Optional. Send a unique key (e.g. a UUID) to make this POST safe to retry. The same key within 24h returns the original result instead of creating a duplicate. |

## Responses

| Status | Description |
|---|---|
| `200` OK | Successful response |
| `400` Bad Request |  |
| `401` Unauthorized |  |
| `403` Forbidden |  |
| `404` Not Found |  |
| `409` Conflict |  |
| `429` Too Many Requests |  |
| `500` Internal Server Error |  |

### 200 OK

Content type: `application/json`

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `data` | object |   |
| `data.id` | string |   |
| `data.deleted` | boolean |   |

Example:

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "<string>",
    "deleted": true
  }
}
```

### Error responses 400, 401, 403, 404, 409, 429, 500

Content type: `application/json`

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `error` | object |   |
| `error.code` | string |   |
| `error.message` | string |   |
| `error.fix` | string \| null |   |
| `error.details` | object \| null |   |
| `error.retryAfterMs` | number \| null |   |

Example:

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "<string>",
    "message": "<string>",
    "fix": "<string>",
    "details": {},
    "retryAfterMs": 123
  }
}
```

## Examples

### cURL

```bash
curl --request DELETE \
  --url 'https://api.coach-platform.com/api/public/trainees/<traineeId>' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer cp_live_...'
```

### JavaScript (fetch)

```js
const response = await fetch('https://api.coach-platform.com/api/public/trainees/<traineeId>', {
  method: 'DELETE',
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Bearer cp_live_...',
  },
});

const data = await response.json();
```

## Related endpoints

- [List trainees](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/get-trainees/index.md): `GET /api/public/trainees`. List trainees of the coach, filterable by label/search.
- [Create a trainee](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/post-trainees/index.md): `POST /api/public/trainees`. Create a new trainee for the coach.
- [Approve or reject pending trainees](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/post-trainees-pending/index.md): `POST /api/public/trainees/pending`. Approve or reject trainees from the coach's approval queue, which GET /trainees?status=pending lists.
- [Get a trainee](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/get-trainees-trainee-id/index.md): `GET /api/public/trainees/{traineeId}`. Get a single trainee by id.
- [Update a trainee](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/patch-trainees-trainee-id/index.md): `PATCH /api/public/trainees/{traineeId}`. Update a trainee's personal details.
- [Restore an archived trainee](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/post-trainees-trainee-id-restore/index.md): `POST /api/public/trainees/{traineeId}/restore`. Bring a trainee back from the archive, exactly as the dashboard does it.
- [Send access details to a trainee](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/post-trainees-trainee-id-send-credentials/index.md): `POST /api/public/trainees/{traineeId}/send-credentials`. Send the trainee their app access details by email, and optionally by WhatsApp.
- [Get a trainee's weekly activity](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/get-trainees-trainee-id-weekly-activity/index.md): `GET /api/public/trainees/{traineeId}/weekly-activity`. Day-by-day activity for the week containing the given date (workouts, cardio, nutrition logging, water, measurements, form submissions).
- [Get a trainee's body measurements](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/get-trainees-trainee-id-measurements/index.md): `GET /api/public/trainees/{traineeId}/measurements`. A trainee's body measurements: weight history, body-fat history, circumference history, and custom measurement types.
- [Record a weigh-in](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/post-trainees-trainee-id-body-metrics/index.md): `POST /api/public/trainees/{traineeId}/body-metrics`. Record a weigh-in for a trainee: weight, body fat, and/or body measurements.
- [List a trainee's progress photos](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/get-trainees-trainee-id-photos/index.md): `GET /api/public/trainees/{traineeId}/photos`. A trainee's progress photos as temporary viewable image URLs (valid a few minutes).
- [List a trainee's personal records](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/get-trainees-trainee-id-personal-records/index.md): `GET /api/public/trainees/{traineeId}/personal-records`. A trainee's personal records per exercise: best weight, estimated 1RM, top-set reps, max reps, set and total volume, and max duration, each with the value achieved, the previous record and when it was set.
- Previous: [Update a trainee](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/patch-trainees-trainee-id/index.md): `PATCH /api/public/trainees/{traineeId}`. Update a trainee's personal details.
- Next: [Restore an archived trainee](https://www.coach-platform.com/docs/api/reference/post-trainees-trainee-id-restore/index.md): `POST /api/public/trainees/{traineeId}/restore`. Bring a trainee back from the archive, exactly as the dashboard does it.