[GNC] How To Remove All Old Invoices

[Greg Feneis]

IIRC, invoices can only be created.

Previously, people have requested help with deleting a single invoice that
was created by mistake.  I think the best advice I saw was to set it aside
and use when needed.

Doesn't seem very good for your case, you'd have to unpost and edit each
invoice and remove all details AMAP. Then you would have a big mess of
unused invoices hanging around. You'd probably have to come up with an
empty invoice numbering scheme so they're not easily confused with actual
invoices.  🤷

Kind regards, Greg Feneis
(Pixel 3)


On Sat, Apr 3, 2021, 19:14 Keith Fetterman <keithfetterman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone found a way to remove old invoices?
>
> I am using a GnuCash accounting file for a different business, but I want
> to retain the same customers.  I followed the steps below to remove the old
> transactions and use the same chart of accounts.  I discovered today that
> the old file also retained all of the previous invoices, and I didn’t find
> a command to delete them.  Is there anyway to remove the old invoices?
>
> If not, I think I will need to start from scratch and re-import the
> customers.  Unfortunately, that would mean having to go through each
> customer and reestablish the billing terms and sales tax table assignements.
>
>
>
>
> > On Mar 20, 2021, at 6:30 PM, Geoff <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > How about:
> > . Export the Accounts
> > . Delete each Account (and its transactions)
> > . Import the Accounts.
> >
> >
> > Geoff
> > =====
> >
> > On 21/03/2021 12:23 pm, Keith Fetterman wrote:
> >> I’ve tried that, and you are correct.  I creates the same chart of
> accounts, but the tax tables, customers/vendors, etc. are missing.
> >> I thought a bulk delete of the transactions would work, but I don’t see
> a way to bulk delete the transactions.
> >>> On Mar 20, 2021, at 6:21 PM, D. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> That saves accounts, but I believe not any of the business objects,
> unfortunately.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -------- Original Message --------
> >>> From: "D. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> >>> Sent: Sat Mar 20 21:18:51 EDT 2021
> >>> To: Keith Fetterman <keithfetterman at gmail.com>
> >>> Cc: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> >>> Subject: Re: [GNC] How To Remove All Transactions
> >>>
> >>> File->Export Accounts
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -------- Original Message --------
> >>> From: Keith Fetterman <keithfetterman at gmail.com>
> >>> Sent: Sat Mar 20 21:14:40 EDT 2021
> >>> To: GnuCash users group <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> >>> Subject: [GNC] How To Remove All Transactions
> >>>
> >>> I need to create a copy of an existing GnuCash file that does not have
> the transactions.  I need to keep the same chart of accounts, configuration
> and settings, tax tables, customers, vendors and report configurations in
> the new GnuCash file, but have all of the transactions removed.  What is
> the easiest way to do this?
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to bulk delete all of the transactions and have an
> empty chart of accounts?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Keith
> >>>
> >>> PS.  I checked the mailing list, but I could find any recent posts.
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