# Delete contact

`DELETE /contacts/{contactId}`

Use this method to delete a contact associated with a processing account.  

To delete a contact, you need their contactId. Our gateway returned the contactId in the response of the [Create Processing Account](https://docs.payroc.com/api/schema/boarding/merchant-platforms/create-processing-account) method.  

**Note:** If you don’t have the contactId, use our [Retrieve Processing Account](https://docs.payroc.com/api/schema/boarding/processing-accounts/retrieve) method or our [List Contacts](https://docs.payroc.com/api/schema/boarding/processing-accounts/list-contacts) method to search for the contact.