Hi,
Needing to delete about 3,500 inventory items that have not been used in over 7 years (do not have anything in the history tab on these items) Can a feature be added in an upgrade to enable removal of old items rather than just marking them inactive.
Thanks
Brad
Edited by Will_H to make subject more in line with Idea.
Absolutely agree with a lot of these comments! Please make it so that inventory can be deleted either when an item with transactions has a value of $0 and/or is older than 5 years! Please!
Yes, it would be great if MYOB added this. With no purge function, the transactions stay in the company file and so the Items can never be removed. I note that this request has been here since 2013. For those who don't want to keep waiting for MYOB at add this, try FGH Tables who can delete any unwanted items, used or not.
Regards
Gavin
Yes we have thousands of items we would like deleted not just made inactive.
Old versions we could do this once transactions were purged.
What is the quickest and easiest way to delete/remove old inventory items from current database file.
I have a large quantity of old invenotry items that need to be deleted/removed and would like to know the easiest way to remove these items.
We only use an inventory item number once therefore it doesnt take long for a large quantity of item numbers to add up in the inventory list which means it takes longer to find items and generate reports due to unwanted information in the current database file.
Yes I like Brads Idea of removing/deleting items that are older that 7 years . We have the same issue to many inactive items.
Helma
I have a similar issue.
I have over 500 items that have NO transactions at all.
I still cannot find a way to bulk delete them
What can one do where there are really old styles on the inventory which have not been used. Can these be combined and put away so that it does not appear on the list.
When there are recent inventory items can we file them away so that they do not appear on the list but they are there if we want to refer to them.
The idea of being able to insert a header into the item list then to be able to put certain items underneath the header. That would make the whole item list so much easier to keep track of everything to do with the inventory. The headings would also make it look so much more appealing and be more user friendly. For people who are just starting to learn about the Inventory area, It would make it so much easier to learn. Thank you for your Understanding and Commitment to the Forums.
Deleting obsolete inventory items is time consuming, and in most of our cases cannot be done.
We would like to get rid of thousands of items we no longer have and do not use, but in most cases the program will not allow the action, usually saying that there is records of transactions preventing the deletion.
Can a feature be added which allows administrator to quickly and permanently delete items, and transfer any monetary values attached to the item to a user designated cost of goods sold or expense account?
Our inventory has an obsolete parts percentage of over 80%.
Thank you
I think this general idea of being able to purge old items comes up quite a lot under different headings, it is a shame myob cannot place them all together - I'm sure the total votes would be worthy of the change. From experience being unable to purge data has made back-ups well nigh impossible and slows everything down
