diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/13-remove-id-restriction-for-api.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/13-remove-id-restriction-for-api.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c1ba0db8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/13-remove-id-restriction-for-api.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- api - remove ``id to .id`` as default requirement which conflicts with RouterOS ``id`` configuration parameter (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.routeros/pull/15).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/api.py b/plugins/modules/api.py
index 20eb9ad8..bb5d7a86 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/api.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/api.py
@@ -324,8 +324,6 @@ def list_to_dic(self, ldict):
             if '=' not in p:
                 self.errors("missing '=' after '%s'" % p)
             p = p.split('=')
-            if p[0] == 'id':
-                self.errors("'%s' must be '.id'" % p[0])
             if p[1]:
                 dict[p[0]] = p[1]
         return dict