Delete Expense — Proposed Guide

Delete Expense: Deletion would be considered only for an eligible draft or duplicate, not as a way to remove accounting or approval history. The proposed…

Overview

Deletion would be considered only for an eligible draft or duplicate, not as a way to remove accounting or approval history. The proposed operation requires a clear retention decision.

Key concepts

Distinguish deletion of a draft from archival of a reviewed record. Confirm that related attachments and report links have a defined lifecycle.

Implementation considerations

Do not delete approved, reimbursed or posted records to fix mistakes. A future correction policy must retain the relevant audit context.

Proposed API behavior

DELETE /v1/expenses/{expense_id} is an illustrative design for this topic. Path and field names may change before implementation. Access would require an authorized organization context and operation-specific permission; no public API or authorization grant is available here.

No additional request fields are illustrated; this is not a finalized contract.

Static example requests

# Proposed request text only; this reserved host is not a live API.
curl -X DELETE 'https://api.remizen.example/v1/expenses/exp_example_123' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'

Fictional response example

Illustrative error case

Review this failure case in context: Do not delete approved, reimbursed or posted records to fix mistakes. A future correction policy must retain the relevant audit context.

{
  "error": {
    "code": "validation_error",
    "message": "The proposed delete expense operation requires review of its input or authorization.",
    "request_id": "req_example_123"
  }
}

Proposed data types

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