Cancel Invite ^BETA

Description #

This method allows an invite to be cancelled, please note the returned ICS attachment must be sent to the recipient in order for the event to be removed from their calendar.

URL format #

{data_center_url}/v1/smart_invites

Example Request #

POST /v1/smart_invites HTTP/1.1
Host: {data_center_url}
Authorization: Bearer {API_KEY}
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

{
  "method": "cancel",
  "recipient": {
    "email": "cronofy@example.com"
  },
  "smart_invite_id": "your-unique-identifier-for-invite"
}

Example Response #

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

{
  "recipient": {
    "email": "cronofy@example.com",
    "status": "pending"
  },
  "smart_invite_id": "your-unique-identifier-for-invite",
  "callback_url": "https://yourapp.example.com/cronofy/smart_invite/notifications",
  "event": {
    "summary": "Board meeting",
    "description": "Discuss plans for the next quarter.",
    "start": {
      "time": "2024-12-20T09:30:00Z",
      "tzid": "Europe/London"
    },
    "end": {
      "time": "2024-12-20T10:00:00Z",
      "tzid": "Europe/London"
    },
    "location": {
      "description": "Board room"
    }
  },
  "attachments": {
    "icalendar": "BEGIN:VCALENDAR\nVERSION:2.0..."
  }
}

Request parameters #

data_center_url required

The URL for the data center you want to communicate with. Possible choices are:

api-au.cronofy.com - 🇦🇺 Australia
api-ca.cronofy.com - 🇨🇦 Canada
api-de.cronofy.com - 🇩🇪 Germany
api-sg.cronofy.com - 🇸🇬 Singapore
api-uk.cronofy.com - 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
api.cronofy.com - 🇺🇸 United States

Find out more about Cronofy's data centers.

API_KEY required #

The client_secret of the application that manages the Smart Invite event.

smart_invite_id required #

An identifier for the event within your application. Is used along with the recipient.email to uniquely identify the Smart Invite.

recipient.email required #

The email address you are going to send the cancelled Smart Invite to.

method required #

The method to use when creating the invite, must be cancel to cancel the event.

Response parameters #

recipient.email #

The email address of the recipient for the Smart Invite.

recipient.status #

The current status of the recipient. Can be one of:

pending have not received any response from the recipient
accepted the recipient has accepted the invitation
tentative the recipient has tentatively accepted the invitation
declined the recipient has declined the invitation

smart_invite_id #

The identifier for the event within your application.

callback_url #

The URL within your application that Cronofy will send notifications to about user interactions with the Smart Invite.

event #

The details of the event.

attachments #

Attachments to add to the multipart email being sent to the recipient.

attachments.icalendar #

the iCalendar representation of the event to to sent to the user.

Please see our best practices on sending Smart Invite ICS files - in particular that the Content-Type method should be set to CANCEL in the case of cancellations.

Cancel Invite BETA