1. Membership
Handwrite Team
  • Handwrite Team
    • Teams
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}
      • README — PATCH /api/v1/orgs/{id}
      • README — DELETE /api/v1/orgs/{id}
      • Your teams and classes
      • Create a team or class
      • One of your organisations
      • Rename a team (owner or admin)
      • Delete with its memberships, invitations, documents and shares (owner)
    • Membership
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/invitations
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs/invitations/{inviteId}/accept
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs/invitations/{inviteId}/decline
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members
      • README — PATCH /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}
      • README — DELETE /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs/{id}/leave
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/invitations
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs/{id}/invitations
      • README — DELETE /api/v1/orgs/{id}/invitations/{inviteId}
      • Organisation invitations to your verified email
        GET
      • Join with the invited role
        POST
      • Decline an organisation invitation
        POST
      • Members (students see teachers and themselves)
        GET
      • Add a person (managers)
        POST
      • Change a role; owner transfers a team
        PATCH
      • Remove a member (managers) or yourself
        DELETE
      • Leave (not the owner)
        POST
      • Pending email invitations (managers)
        GET
      • Invite an email (managers)
        POST
      • Withdraw an invitation (managers)
        DELETE
    • Documents
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/documents
      • Documents the organisation owns
    • Billing and usage
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/billing
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/usage
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/usage/live
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/usage
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/insights
      • Plan, status and seats per role (billing.read)
      • Usage per day and member (admins, managers, billing)
      • The last 60 minutes per member (admins, managers, billing)
      • One member's usage (usage.read, or yourself)
      • How people collaborate on the org's documents
    • Policies
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/policies
      • README — PUT /api/v1/orgs/{id}/policies
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/policy
      • README — PUT /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/policy
      • README — DELETE /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/policy
      • Org-wide policy rules (policies.read)
      • Replace the org-wide rules (admins)
      • A member's override and what applies to them
      • Replace a member's override (admins; managers for members)
      • Remove a member's override
    • Managed tokens
      • README — GET /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/tokens
      • README — POST /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/tokens
      • README — DELETE /api/v1/orgs/{id}/members/{principal}/tokens/{tokenId}
      • Managed tokens issued to a member (tokens.read)
      • Issue a managed fine-grained token (admins, billing)
      • Revoke a managed token (admins, billing)
    • Guides
      • Start here — Team app integration
      • Team API specification notes
      • Team socket specification notes
      • Team live socket — README
      • Team roles and access model
      • Team credentials and developer setup
      • Team SSO and portal workflows
      • Team policies, plans and seats
      • Team usage and collaboration insights
      • Team webhook delivery — README
  1. Membership

Decline an organisation invitation

POST
/api/v1/orgs/invitations/{inviteId}/decline
Team authority: A person whose verified email matches the invitation.
App integration: Declining removes the pending invitation. It does not leave an existing team or delete any documents. A successful 204 has no response body.

Request

Authorization
Bearer Token
Provide your bearer token in the
Authorization
header when making requests to protected resources.
Example:
Authorization: Bearer ********************
or
OAuth 2.0
Authorization Code
Add the parameter
Authorization
to Headers
,whose value is to concatenate the Token after the Bearer.
Example:
Authorization: Bearer ********************
Authorize URL: https://handwrites.io/oauth/authorize
Token URL: https://handwrites.io/api/oauth/token
Refresh URL: https://handwrites.io/api/oauth/token
Scopes:
orgs:manage-Create, rename and delete teams and classrooms, manage members and invitations, join and leave
or
Path Params

Responses

🟢204
Declined.
Headers

This response does not have a body.
🟠401Unauthorized
🟠403Forbidden
🟠404NotFound
🟠429TooManyRequests
🔴500ServerError
Request Request Example
Shell
JavaScript
Java
Swift
curl --location --request POST '/api/v1/orgs/invitations//decline' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
Response Response Example
401 - Example 1
{
    "error": {
        "code": "string",
        "message": "string"
    }
}
Modified at 2026-10-26 13:12:30
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