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RESTAdminCatalogProduct Variants

Delete Product Variant

DELETE
https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/:store_hash/v3/catalog/products/:product_id/variants/:variant_id
DELETE
/stores/:store_hash/v3/catalog/products/:product_id/variants/:variant_id
$curl -X DELETE https://api.bigcommerce.com/stores/store_hash/v3/catalog/products/1/variants/1 \
>     -H "Accept: application/json" \
>     -H "X-Auth-Token: <apiKey>"
Deletes a product variant.
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Authentication

X-Auth-Tokenstring

OAuth scopes

UI NamePermissionParameter
Productsmodifystore_v2_products
Productsread-onlystore_v2_products_read_only

Authentication header

HeaderArgumentDescription
X-Auth-Tokenaccess_tokenFor more about API accounts that generate access_tokens, see our Guide to API Accounts.

Further reading

For example requests and more information about authenticating BigCommerce APIs, see Authentication and Example Requests.

For more about BigCommerce OAuth scopes, see our Guide to API Accounts.

For a list of API status codes, see API Status Codes.

Path parameters

product_idintegerRequired

The ID of the Product to which the resource belongs. Product variant metafield endpoints that have the product_id in the request path are successful as long as the parameter is not empty. The product_id segment is there only for path consistency.

variant_idintegerRequired
ID of the variant on a product, or on an associated Price List Record.
store_hashstringRequired
Permanent ID of the BigCommerce store.

Headers

AcceptstringRequiredDefaults to application/json

The MIME type of the response body.

Response