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title: "Manage cost contracts"
description: "View and manage cost contracts for your company and merchant accounts."
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last_modified: "2026-05-24T12:54:32+02:00"
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# Manage cost contracts

View and manage cost contracts for your company and merchant accounts.

[View source](/account-management-api/manage-cost-contracts.md)

You can [create](/account-management-api/manage-cost-contracts/addcostcontract) and [delete](/account-management-api/manage-cost-contracts/deletelatestcostcontract) cost contracts at the merchant or company level.

The following restrictions apply:

* Cost contracts need to be consecutive.

* `startDate` needs to be set at least one month in the future.

* `endDate` needs to be set not later than two years in the future.

* No date overlapping between or among cost contracts; at any given time there must be only one active instance of a cost contract.

* No time gap between consecutive cost contracts: two consecutive cost contracts in a sequence cannot include any downtime in between when there is no active cost contract.

* Do not pass these fields if you are creating a cost contract for a merchant account:

  * `minimumTxs`
  * `minimumAmount`
  * `remark`
  * `billable`

* You cannot edit or modify cost contracts whose dates are set in the past.

* You cannot edit or modify the current active cost contract.

* If you want to replace a cost contract, [delete it](/account-management-api/manage-cost-contracts/deletelatestcostcontract) first, and then [create a new one](/account-management-api/manage-cost-contracts/addcostcontract).

## Cost contract endpoints

The following API calls help you manage cost contracts:

* [listCostContracts](/account-management-api/manage-cost-contracts/listcostcontracts)
* [addCostContract](/account-management-api/manage-cost-contracts/addcostcontract)
* [addCostContracts](/account-management-api/manage-cost-contracts/addcostcontracts)
* [deleteLatestCostContract](/account-management-api/manage-cost-contracts/deletelatestcostcontract)