How to reactivate a voluntarily deactivated Zerodha account

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A Zerodha account you closed on your own request, a voluntary deactivation, cannot be reactivated; it is permanently closed, and the route back to trading is to open a fresh Zerodha account with full KYC, not to revive the old one. This is the point that trips people up, because a different situation, the dormant account , genuinely is reactivated through re-KYC. The two look similar from outside, “my account isn’t working, how do I get it back”, but the answer is opposite: a dormant account comes back through a re-KYC flow, a closed-on-request account does not come back at all.

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How to reactivate a voluntarily deactivated Zerodha account