# Creating group using API fails with "Deploying to groups is a PRO-licensed feature."

**URL:** <https://community.sonatype.com/t/creating-group-using-api-fails-with-deploying-to-groups-is-a-pro-licensed-feature/7845>\
**Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\
**Created:** [December 13, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/creating-group-using-api-fails-with-deploying-to-groups-is-a-pro-licensed-feature/7845 "2021-12-13T17:00:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeanluclariviere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jeanluclariviere](https://community.sonatype.com/u/jeanluclariviere)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/creating-group-using-api-fails-with-deploying-to-groups-is-a-pro-licensed-feature/7845/1 "2021-12-13T17:00:37Z")

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Hello,  
We’re able to manually create groups for docker and NPM without any issues, but as soon as we try to use the API to create the same groups, it fails and get the following error: “Deploying to groups is a PRO-licensed feature.”.

We aren’t trying to deploy to these groups, simply create them using the API…  
/v1/repositories/docker/group

Any idea what’s going on?

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**Author:** ![jeanluclariviere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jeanluclariviere](https://community.sonatype.com/u/jeanluclariviere)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/creating-group-using-api-fails-with-deploying-to-groups-is-a-pro-licensed-feature/7845/2 "2021-12-13T20:07:38Z")

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Solution was to drop the “writeableMember” parameter (included by default) which is a pro feature. Error message definitely should be more clear about this.