# Cancel payment instruction

`DELETE /payment-instructions/{paymentInstructionId}`

Use this method to cancel a payment instruction.  

You can cancel a payment instruction only if its status is `inProgress`. To retrieve the status of a payment instruction, use our [Retrieve Payment Instruction](https://docs.payroc.com/api/schema/payroc-cloud/payment-instructions/retrieve) method.  

To cancel a payment instruction, you need its paymentInstructionId. Our gateway returned the paymentInstructionId in the response of the [Submit Payment Instruction](https://docs.payroc.com/api/schema/payroc-cloud/payment-instructions/submit) method.