Withdraw a pending period-close request

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "reason": "Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period."
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request"

payload = { "reason": "Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period." }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({reason: 'Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period.'})
};

fetch('https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'reason' => 'Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period.'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"reason\": \"Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period.\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"reason\": \"Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period.\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"reason\": \"Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period.\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "entity_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "period_name": "<string>",
    "start_date": "2023-12-25",
    "end_date": "2023-12-25",
    "status": "open",
    "closed_by": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "closed_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "close_requested_by": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "close_requested_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "close_approved_by": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "close_approved_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "reopen_reason": "<string>",
    "reopened_by": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "reopened_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
  }
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "type": "not_found",
  "hint": "The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity.",
  "param": "expand[0]",
  "required": "accounts:read",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "type": "not_found",
  "hint": "The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity.",
  "param": "expand[0]",
  "required": "accounts:read",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "type": "not_found",
  "hint": "The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity.",
  "param": "expand[0]",
  "required": "accounts:read",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "type": "not_found",
  "hint": "The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity.",
  "param": "expand[0]",
  "required": "accounts:read",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "type": "not_found",
  "hint": "The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity.",
  "param": "expand[0]",
  "required": "accounts:read",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "type": "not_found",
  "hint": "The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity.",
  "param": "expand[0]",
  "required": "accounts:read",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

Accounting

Withdraw a pending period-close request

Required API key scope: accounting:close_period

Withdraws a period-close request that has been raised but not yet approved, returning the period from pending_approval to open.

BOOKS-100 PERIOD-CLOSE-UNDO (2026-08-28). Before this endpoint the only exits from pending_approval were (a) a second person APPROVING the request, which closes the period — the opposite of what someone who mis-clicked wants — or (b) a raw UPDATE. And pending_approval is a posting-blocking state, so one stray click froze a month of the ledger with no in-product undo. This is the Rule 25 api-v1 twin of the Cognito-JWT POST /gl/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request; both call the same canonical handler, so authorization and guards are identical.

Authorization, two tiers (Rule 33 point 5 — self-service on your OWN record never requires the org permission):

Floor — gl.close_period, the permission that let you RAISE the request in the first place. Gating the route itself on gl.approve_close would lock the REQUESTER out of taking back their own mis-click, which is the whole population this endpoint exists for.
Plus — if the caller is NOT close_requested_by, they additionally need gl.approve_close. Cancelling someone else’s request is an approval-authority act. Returns 403 only_requester_or_approver_can_withdraw.

Guards:

Layer 1 isolation — the period is scoped to the API key’s entity_id; cross-tenant attempts return 404.
State guard — only pending_approval periods can be withdrawn. Returns 409 period_not_in_pending_approval with current_status.
Row lock — the state read takes FOR UPDATE, and the UPDATE re-asserts status = 'pending_approval', so a concurrent approve-close cannot slip between the test and the flip. A lost race returns 409 period_state_changed.
Audit log (Rule 20) — an activity_log row records the prior state, the original requester, the withdrawing user, whether the withdrawer WAS the requester, and the optional reason.
Broadcast (Rule 13) — gl.period.close_request_withdrawn is emitted, mirroring the gl.period.close_requested event it undoes.

Write surface is deliberately three columns and no more: status back to open, plus close_requested_by and close_requested_at cleared. close_approved_by / close_approved_at / close_checksum_hex are NOT touched — on a pending_approval row they are NULL by construction (approve-close writes them in the SAME statement that flips status to closed), so writing them would be a claim about state this handler has not measured.

POST

periods

{id}

withdraw-close-request

Withdraw a pending period-close request

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "reason": "Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period."
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request"

payload = { "reason": "Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period." }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({reason: 'Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period.'})
};

fetch('https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'reason' => 'Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period.'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"reason\": \"Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period.\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"reason\": \"Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period.\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.arcuserp.com/v1/periods/{id}/withdraw-close-request")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"reason\": \"Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period.\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "entity_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "period_name": "<string>",
    "start_date": "2023-12-25",
    "end_date": "2023-12-25",
    "status": "open",
    "closed_by": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "closed_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "close_requested_by": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "close_requested_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "close_approved_by": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "close_approved_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "reopen_reason": "<string>",
    "reopened_by": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "reopened_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
  }
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "type": "not_found",
  "hint": "The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity.",
  "param": "expand[0]",
  "required": "accounts:read",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "type": "not_found",
  "hint": "The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity.",
  "param": "expand[0]",
  "required": "accounts:read",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "type": "not_found",
  "hint": "The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity.",
  "param": "expand[0]",
  "required": "accounts:read",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "type": "not_found",
  "hint": "The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity.",
  "param": "expand[0]",
  "required": "accounts:read",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "type": "not_found",
  "hint": "The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity.",
  "param": "expand[0]",
  "required": "accounts:read",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "code": "not_found",
  "type": "not_found",
  "hint": "The requested order does not exist or does not belong to this entity.",
  "param": "expand[0]",
  "required": "accounts:read",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

API key issued per entity via Settings > Developers > API Keys. Each key carries scopes (e.g. orders:read, products:write). Bearer token format: Authorization: Bearer ark_live_ent_Test keys use ark_test_ent_. Both are issued per entity via Settings > Developers > API Keys.

Path Parameters

string<uuid>

required

Body

application/json

reason

string

Optional free-text justification. Recorded verbatim in the activity_log description and metadata. No length validation.

Example:

"Raised the close request by mistake while reviewing the period."

Response

Close request withdrawn; period returned to open.

data

object

An accounting period. Closed periods refuse new journal entry postings (Rule A3). Year-end closing entries that roll revenue and expense activity into retained earnings are posted via a separate explicit endpoint (POST /v1/accounting_periods/{id}/close-fiscal-year). The monthly-period close does NOT by itself post a retained-earnings rollover JE. Verified against live dev RDS accounting.accounting_periods.

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Withdraw a pending period-close request

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