Delete sales and purchase transactions

This can be used:

• As a last resort to solve balance problems on a customer or supplier account, if there is no backup available.
• To clear test data on the ledger before applying live data.

Corresponding transactions in the Nominal Ledger are not deleted, so you will need to post opposite entries, for example, a credit note to reverse an invoice. This then posts the opposite entries to the Nominal Ledger.

Once you have deleted the required transactions, check the ledger does balance by running Balance Ledgers.

• All transactions are deleted from an individual account, or all accounts, depending on your selection.
• The account balance, turnover and base turnover on the selected accounts are set to zero.
• If you are using the archived history file, specified during the Sales Ledger setup process or the Purchase Ledger setup process, the entries are removed from the current transaction file on the customer account and added to the archived file.

If you decided not to use the archived history file, then the transactions are deleted from the ledger permanently.