Remove unwanted quotations, invoices, credits, or orders

Summary

How to reduce the size of your data in Sage 50 Accounts, to make it easier to find records.

Description

If required, you can make an archive before you remove any information, in case you need to access it later.

NOTE:

Removing unwanted sales invoices and credits doesn't remove any related audit trail transactions. To remove unwanted transactions, you can clear your audit trail.

Resolution

To remove unwanted quotations, invoices, credits, or orders:

  1. Open the relevant module:
    • Quotations - only Lost quotes can be deleted. To delete quotes with a different status, delete them in either Invoices and credits or Sales orders
    • Invoices and credits
    • Sales orders - Sage 50 Accounts Professional only
    • Purchase orders - Sage 50 Accounts Professional only
  2. Select the items you want to remove.

    To select items before a specified date, use the search option to show the required records > Swap. For help with using the search option, refer to this article.
  3. Press Delete then Yes.

TIP:

After deleting any unwanted records, to reduce the size of your data files you can compress your data.

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200427112334887
Last Modified Date
Tue Sep 29 10:41:30 UTC 2026
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