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# Exclude external account

> Excludes an external account as irrelevant and/or duplicate. This is used to resolve account exclusion notifications.



## OpenAPI

````yaml post /v1/businesses/{businessId}/external-accounts/{externalAccountId}/exclude
openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: API
  version: latest
servers: []
security:
  - BearerAuth: []
tags: []
externalDocs:
  url: /
paths:
  /v1/businesses/{businessId}/external-accounts/{externalAccountId}/exclude:
    post:
      tags: []
      summary: Exclude external account
      description: >-
        Excludes an external account as irrelevant and/or duplicate. This is
        used to resolve account exclusion notifications.
      operationId: business.external-accounts.exclude.post
      parameters:
        - name: businessId
          in: path
          description: The UUID of the business to exclude external account for.
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: externalAccountId
          in: path
          description: The UUID of the external account to exclude.
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: Content-Type
          in: header
          description: Content-Type must be set to application/json.
          schema:
            type: string
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExternalAccountExcludeOptions'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: External account excluded successfully.
          headers: {}
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/EmptyResponse'
                required:
                  - data
        '400':
          description: >-
            Invalid exclusion options. An account must be marked irrelevant
            and/or duplicate.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiError'
        '404':
          description: >-
            Business id or external account id is not found. This indicates the
            business id is invalid or the business has been archived, or the
            external account id is invalid or the external account has been
            deleted.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiError'
      deprecated: false
components:
  schemas:
    ExternalAccountExcludeOptions:
      type: object
      properties:
        is_irrelevant:
          type: boolean
          nullable: true
          description: Whether the external account is irrelevant to the business.
        is_duplicate:
          type: boolean
          nullable: true
          description: Whether the external account is a duplicate.
      description: >-
        Options for excluding an external account. At least one of is_irrelevant
        or is_duplicate must be true.
    EmptyResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          description: Resource type. Value will be `com.layerfi.routers.EmptyResponse`.
          example: com.layerfi.routers.EmptyResponse
    ApiError:
      type: object
      description: An error object returned in API error responses.
      properties:
        type:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorType'
          description: >-
            A fixed category for the error, helpful for categorizing and
            processing errors.
        description:
          type: string
          description: A human-readable error description.
        error_enum:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiEnumErrorType'
          description: >-
            A stable, machine-readable identifier for programmatically handling
            specific error conditions. Only present for 4xx client errors—not
            included for 5xx server errors. Use this instead of parsing the
            description field, as enum values remain stable across API versions.
          nullable: true
        meta:
          type: object
          description: Optional additional information about the error.
          nullable: true
      required:
        - type
        - description
    ApiErrorType:
      type: string
      enum:
        - ResourceArchived
        - AuthFailure
        - Plaid
        - Stripe
        - InvalidState
        - ResourceNotFound
        - InvalidParameters
        - JsonSerialization
        - Unknown
        - BadRequest
        - PaginationCursor
        - Conflict
        - LedgerOperationFailed
    ApiEnumErrorType:
      type: string
      description: >-
        Stable enum values for programmatic error handling. Only present in 4xx
        error responses.
      enum:
        - AccessCodeInvalid
        - BalanceSheetDoesNotBalance
        - BalanceSheetMissingAccount
        - BankStatementParserError
        - BillStateError
        - BulkCategorizeFailure
        - BulkMatchFailure
        - BusinessTaskAlreadyCompleted
        - BusinessTaskDeleted
        - CalendlyOAuthError
        - CallBookingError
        - CantUpdateTransactionInCustomerPayout
        - CantUpdateTransactionInVendorPayout
        - CheckPayrollConfigNotFound
        - CheckPayrollServiceNotFound
        - ClerkUserAlreadyExists
        - ConflictingQueryParams
        - CustomAccountAlreadyExists
        - CustomTransactionCsvParsingError
        - CustomTransactionUploadFailure
        - CustomerPayoutInputFormatError
        - DoesNotMatchExistingEntity
        - EmptyBatchRequest
        - ExpenseParserError
        - ExternalAccountBalanceReconciliationError
        - ExternalIdConflict
        - InvalidCategory
        - InvalidEffectiveDate
        - InvalidLedgerOperation
        - InvalidMonthlyAverageRange
        - InvalidMultiPartRequest
        - InvalidPaginationCursor
        - InvalidPayload
        - InvoiceDeleted
        - InvoiceNotFound
        - InvoiceReferenceMismatch
        - InvoiceStateError
        - ManualRateLimit
        - MultipleTagKeyFiltersUnsupported
        - NoCognitoUserFound
        - NoOpeningBalanceFound
        - NotYetReconciled
        - OnePasswordApiError
        - OnePasswordItemNotFound
        - OnePasswordVaultNotFound
        - OpenAICategorizationError
        - PaymentLinkInvalid
        - PayrollStateError
        - PeriodIsClosed
        - PeriodNotClosed
        - PhoneNumberAlreadyRegistered
        - PlaidApiError
        - PlaidConnectionBroken
        - PlaidCreateLinkTokenError
        - PlaidCredentialsNotConfigured
        - PlaidExchangePublicTokenError
        - PlaidGetInstitutionByIdError
        - PlaidGetItemError
        - PlaidInvalidEnvironment
        - PlaidItemAlreadyExists
        - PlaidItemNotFound
        - PlaidProcessorApiError
        - PlaidUnlinkItemError
        - QueryParamFormat
        - QueryParamMissing
        - QuickbooksBrokenConnection
        - QuickbooksConnectionAlreadyExists
        - QuickbooksConnectionAlreadySyncing
        - QuickbooksConnectionMissing
        - QuickbooksConnectionNotActivated
        - QuickbooksInvalidRequest
        - QuickbooksInvalidState
        - QuickbooksNoMatchingAccount
        - QuickbooksNonPostingAccountType
        - QuickbooksNotConfigured
        - QuickbooksOAuthCallbackInvalid
        - QuickbooksOAuthError
        - QuickbooksTokenExpired
        - ResourceArchived
        - ScheduleCNotConfigured
        - SmsNotEnabled
        - SpecifiedBadRequest
        - SpecifiedIdNotFound
        - SplitTransactionError
        - StepEvaluationBadRequest
        - StripeConnectAccountIdNotFound
        - StripeCredentialsNotConfigured
        - StripeGetBalanceForConnectAccountFailure
        - StripeRedirectOrRefreshUrlNotConfigured
        - TagFilterNotFound
        - UnexpectedQueryParam
        - UnitAccountsInUse
        - WrongAnswerType
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT

````