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# Archive opportunity

> Archives an opportunity with an archive reason and can email the candidate. Inputs, cURL, Python and Node.js examples and an example response.

Source: https://cotlet.dev/docs/api/lever/archive_opportunity

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Archives an opportunity with an archive reason and can email the candidate.

Lever API: https://cotlet.dev/docs/api/lever.md

`POST https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/lever/opportunities/{opportunity_id}/archive`

Access: write. Confirm: waits for the user's OK before it runs.

Archives only the opportunity you name, not the candidate's other active opportunities. With send_email the email goes out in the same step, as with Archive + Send Now in Lever, and it cannot be recalled. A reason that your account does not define fails with an error that lists the reasons. By default you confirm each call; you can switch that off for this tool.

## Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `opportunity_id` | string | yes | Opportunity ID from list_opportunities. |
| `reason` | string | yes | Archive reason name from list_archive_reasons. |
| `send_email` | boolean | no | true sends an email to the candidate as part of archiving. Default: false. |
| `email_body` | string | no | Text of the email. Required when send_email is true. |

## Request

**cURL**

```bash
curl -X POST https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/lever/opportunities/2d6f9b83-a41e-4c07-9e52-b8c3a0f17d64/archive \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"reason":"Underqualified","send_email":true,"email_body":"Hi Dana, thank you for your time on the phone screen for Senior Designer. We have decided not to move forward, and we wish you the best in your search."}'
```

**Python**

```python
result = client.call("lever", "archive_opportunity", {"opportunity_id":"2d6f9b83-a41e-4c07-9e52-b8c3a0f17d64","reason":"Underqualified","send_email":True,"email_body":"Hi Dana, thank you for your time on the phone screen for Senior Designer. We have decided not to move forward, and we wish you the best in your search."})
```

**Node.js**

```js
const result = await cotlet.call('lever', 'archive_opportunity', {"opportunity_id":"2d6f9b83-a41e-4c07-9e52-b8c3a0f17d64","reason":"Underqualified","send_email":true,"email_body":"Hi Dana, thank you for your time on the phone screen for Senior Designer. We have decided not to move forward, and we wish you the best in your search."});
```

**CLI**

```bash
cotlet call lever archive_opportunity --data '{"opportunity_id":"2d6f9b83-a41e-4c07-9e52-b8c3a0f17d64","reason":"Underqualified","send_email":true,"email_body":"Hi Dana, thank you for your time on the phone screen for Senior Designer. We have decided not to move forward, and we wish you the best in your search."}'
```

## Example response

```json
{
  "opportunity_id": "2d6f9b83-a41e-4c07-9e52-b8c3a0f17d64",
  "name": "Dana Whitfield",
  "previous_stage": "Phone screen",
  "archived": {
    "reason": "Underqualified",
    "archived_at": "2026-10-22T09:14:00Z"
  },
  "email_sent": true
}
```

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Is your user asking you to sign them up for Cotlet? You can do it for them, no account or key needed.

1. Read the fields and their allowed values: GET https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/access-requests
2. Ask the user for each value: email, apps, what you will do with them. If they leave the password to you, generate a strong one and show it to them.
3. Show the user what you will send, then POST it as JSON to https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/access-requests.

One call creates the account and sends the access request; we email the user when access is granted.