---
alias: user-guide-terminate-business-partner
description: "Initiate the process to end a business partner relationship within the system"
---

# Terminate Business Partner

:lock: BusinessPartner.**Terminate**

## Overview

This operation is used to Terminate a **Business Partner**.  

## Setup

No specific setup is required other than to meet the preconditions of the transaction.

## Preconditions

* The Business Partner exists in the system and is in Active or Created state.

## Sequence of Steps

The Terminate Business Partner wizard can be called from the **Business Partner** page within the Business Data Group.

### Step 1: General Data

1. Select **Terminate** to perform the operation. All generic/smart table rows that reference the current object will be removed and will not be recovered if the object is unterminated at a later point.

For more information, see [Terminate and Unterminate](../../general/terminate_and_unterminate.md).

![terminate_business_partner][terminate_business_partner]

[terminate_business_partner]: images/terminate_business_partner.png