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How to Delete OPEN Receivables Transaction?

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Hello! 

I really need to inactivate thousands of old customer accounts. However, when I select "Inactivate" in the Customer Maintenance window, I get the error "You cannot inactivate a customer record with unposted or posted transactions. When I go to Transactions by Customer, there are dozens of OPEN receivable transactions preventing the account from being inactivated. We had an error that resulted in dozens of false OPEN receivable transactions per customer for this customer list going back 2 years.

I know it's probably unusual, but I need to delete all the OPEN receivable transactions for a customer list of about 4,000. Or any other way to prevent my staff from using these old customer accounts. 

I can't find anything online on how to do this, so any expertise is greatly appreciated!

THANKS!

Claire 

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  • Richard Wheeler Profile Picture
    75,850 Moderator on at

    Does your current GL AR balance match your AR TB AR balance? If they match you can try running a macro that will create credit memos for all your open AR documents.

    I have used this in the past.

    https://mahmoudsaadi.blogspot.com/2018/04/move-ar-records-from-history-to-open.html

  • Richard Wheeler Profile Picture
    75,850 Moderator on at

    You can also look into this.

    icancloudapps.com/.../

    I do have a copy of the scripts if you want to try this yourself.

  • Deanne CWCO Profile Picture
    250 on at

    Maybe you could use the 'write-off documents' routine to close these open transactions first

  • Cheryl Waswick Profile Picture
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    Hello,

    The community is correct that the supported method would be to create a credit memo to apply to them first, or write-them off, so they are all fully applied.   (This would also reverse the GL entry at the same time.)  Then you could move them to history and use the 'remove transaction history' sales utility to remove the documents from the sales module.

    Removing the records in SQL is possible but not supported.   

    Cheryl

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