Summary
How to make unused bank accounts inactive in Sage Accounting.
Description
You can prevent yourself or others from creating transactions for a bank account by making it inactive. This is useful for when you have bank accounts you no longer use.
Once set to inactive, we hide the bank account when you create transactions. Although it will still appear in reports.
Resolution
On the Banking page, you can switch between three tabs at the top right:
- All accounts
- Active accounts
- Inactive accounts
You can't set a bank account as inactive if:
- It's connected to a bank feed. You need to disconnect your bank feed first
- It's used to post your payroll data automatically to Sage Accounting as a journal, if you have payroll integration
- There are draft transactions entered
Set an account as inactive
To make a bank account inactive:
- Click Banking and open the relevant bank account.
- Under Account Status, select Active.

- Set the status to Inactive.
- Save your changes.
Remove the inactive flag
To make a bank account active again, follow our article to reactivate an inactive bank account.