{"section":"known-issues","requestedLocale":"en","requestedSlug":"removing-ean-via-api-is-not-inactivating-skus-without-refids","locale":"en","slug":"removing-ean-via-api-is-not-inactivating-skus-without-refids","path":"docs/en/known-issues/Catalog/removing-ean-via-api-is-not-inactivating-skus-without-refids.md","branch":"main","content":"## Summary\n\n\n\nSKUs need to have either an EAN or a RefId to be active.\n\nCurrently, if you remove all the EANs of a SKU via API, it will remain active, even if it has no refID (it shouldn't).\n\n\n\n\n\n## Simulation\n\n\n\n1. Get any SKU that has a EAN and doesn't have a RefId.\n2. Run the delete all EAN API https://developers.vtex.com/vtex-rest-api/reference/catalog-api-delete-all-ean\n\n\n\n\n\n\n## Workaround\n\n\nn/a"}