Tool sheet · AccountDelete

Delete Account

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Delete your account and send the remaining XRP to a destination. Requires no blocking objects (trust lines, escrows, channels) and burns the deletion fee.

What

Closes your account for good and sends the XRP left in it (minus a burned fee) to another account.

Why you'd use it

When a temporary or test account is no longer needed, deleting it recovers most of the 1 XRP base reserve that would otherwise stay locked forever.

How

First clean house: cancel offers, close escrows and channels, remove trust lines — use Account Objects to find anything left.
Enter the Destination Address that will receive the remaining XRP (it must already exist).
Add a Destination Tag if the destination is an exchange that requires one.
Submit and confirm tesSUCCESS. The account is gone from the ledger.

Watch out

Deleting burns at least the owner reserve (currently 0.2 XRP) as a fee — you get most, not all, of your XRP back.
Any blocking object — trust lines, escrows, payment channels — makes deletion fail. Some objects created by others can block you too.
The account must have been around a while: its sequence number plus 256 must be below the current ledger index, or you get tecTOO_SOON.
Deletion is permanent, but the address could be re-funded later as a brand-new account with no history-based settings.

For example

You spun up five testnet-style throwaway accounts during a mainnet migration. Once the migration is verified, you delete each one, sweeping the leftover XRP back to your main wallet and burning only 0.2 XRP each.