---
title: "Pause or resume a form"
description: "Pausing stops a published form taking sign-ups. Its page stays up and shows the closed message from its copy. `POST /forms/{id}/resume` opens it again with the version published last."
url: "https://openemail.uk/docs/api/forms/pause"
area: "API"
category: "Mailbox"
---

# Pause or resume a form

Pausing stops a published form taking sign-ups. Its page stays up and shows the closed message from its copy. `POST /forms/{id}/resume` opens it again with the version published last.

`POST /forms/{id}/pause`

**Also documents:** `POST /forms/{id}/resume`

## POST /forms/{id}/pause

Pausing stops a published form taking sign-ups. Its page stays up and shows the closed message from its copy. `POST /forms/{id}/resume` opens it again with the version published last.

## Example

Needs `forms:write`. No body. Pausing a paused form, or resuming a live one, changes nothing. Resuming checks the published version again, so it can also answer 422 `invalid_form` or `form_sender_refused`, and resuming a double opt-in form needs `emails:send` as well.

**curl**

```
curl -X POST "$OE/forms/frm_3b9d2e7a1c4f80d56e2a9b14/pause" -H "$AUTH"
```

**Response**

```
{
  "object": "form",
  "id": "frm_3b9d2e7a1c4f80d56e2a9b14",
  "status": "paused"
}
```

> A form that was never published cannot be paused or resumed: the answer is 409 `form_not_published`.

> While a form is paused, a post to its subscribe endpoint answers 409 `form_closed`.