# Cancel an invite
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cancel-an-invite/290652
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api, invites
**Created:** [January 5, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cancel-an-invite/290652 "2024-01-05T17:56:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Thele](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Thele)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cancel-an-invite/290652/1 "2024-01-05T17:56:41Z")
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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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cancel-an-invite/290652/2 "2024-01-05T19:39:16Z")
> [@Tom\_Thele](#):
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> Is there a way to rescind the invitation via the API?
You can do anything from the API that you can do from the UX – [Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576).
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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### Author:  [@Tom\_Thele](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Thele)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cancel-an-invite/290652/3 "2024-01-09T15:41:26Z")
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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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cancel-an-invite/290652/4 "2024-01-09T16:17:21Z")
On your invites page (`https://HOSTNAME/my/invited/pending`) next to the invite, click the trash can:
So if you want to do it from the API, you’ll see the reverse engineering link above.