Cancel an invite

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We are about to issue invitations to a large group of new users who subscribe to a product. Discourse access is a new benefit we are launching to current subscribers. My concern is users whom we invite to join a group but cancel the subscription before they accept the invitation. In this situation, the subscription would end but the invitation would still be open (valid for 30 days from send). I want to be able to stop them from joining the group in Discourse, in this situation.

Questions: Can I remove them from a group (using the API) while the invitation is pending? Are they actually in the group while the invite is pending? I assume if I can remove them from the group and they accept the invitation, they just won’t have access to anything.
Is there a way to rescind the invitation via the API?
Any suggestions on handling this situation would be appreciated.

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You can do anything from the API that you can do from the UX – Reverse engineer the Discourse API.

Ideally you’d use discourse_connect to connect Discourse to whatever it is that manages your subscriptions, but if that’s not feasible, you can have it update stuff via the API.

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Thanks Jay, that is good to know.

The bigger question still is, how do I negate a pending invite. I see where others have asked this but they never got a direct answer. Anyone know the answer?

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On your invites page (https://HOSTNAME/my/invited/pending) next to the invite, click the trash can:

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So if you want to do it from the API, you’ll see the reverse engineering link above.

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