Delete archived transactions
If required, you can permanently remove your archived nominal, sales and purchase transactions from Sage 200.
There are a number of options available with this routine. You can choose to:
- Remove archived transactions relating to a specific account.
- Remove archived transactions for all accounts.
When the routine has finished, it displays the number of archived transactions that have been deleted from the archive file.
The transactions in the specified date range and accounts are removed permanently from the ledger.
You must:
- Make sure that no one is updating the Nominal Ledger, Sales Ledger or Purchase Ledger from any integrated Sage 200 modules.
To delete archived transactions
Open: Nominal Ledger > Utilities > File Maintenance > Purge Transactions
Open: Sales Ledger > Utilities > File Maintenance > Purge Transactions
Open: Purchase Ledger > Utilities > File Maintenance > Purge Transactions
- Choose whether to remove transactions from a single account or all accounts.
- If you intend to remove transactions for a single account, select the account.
- To delete transactions in a date range, select Date from and specify the Date from and To dates. To delete all transactions irrespective of date, select All transactions.
- To delete the transactions, click Delete and then click OK to confirm when prompted.
What do you want to do?
Delete archived sales and purchase orders and returns
Delete archived batch/serial history
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