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alias: user-guide-terminate-service
description: "Initiate service termination, ensuring the service exists and meets required conditions"
---

# Terminate Service

:lock: Service.**Terminate**

## Overview

This operation is used to Terminate a **Service**.  

## Setup

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

## Preconditions

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

## Sequence of Steps

The Terminate Service wizard can be called from the **Service** 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_service][terminate_service]

[terminate_service]: images/terminate_service.png