Delete bank and transaction data in QuickBooks Self-Employed

QuickBooksHelp · ‎February 07, 2019

Learn how to delete your data in QuickBooks Self-Employed.

Want to delete your online bank or credit card data? You can remove your connected accounts and delete all related transactions in QuickBooks Self-Employed at any time.

We'll show you how to disconnect your accounts and delete the transactions, or just hide them to clean up your books.

Important: This change is permanent. It removes all transactions and any special calculations. You can't undo this.

Hide bank accounts

If you don't want to see transactions from a bank account anymore, you can hide them. This stops QuickBooks from downloading new transactions, and you keep all the existing data:

Open QuickBooks Self-Employed in a web browser.
Select the profile ⚙ icon and then Bank Accounts.
Find the account you want to hide.
In the Show Account section, select the toggle to OFF.

All of your data is still there, you just won't see the transactions anymore. To make the account active again, repeat the steps, and select the toggle to ON.

Tip: Want to add transactions but keep the account hidden? Manually add them, or import them with a CSV file.

Delete your bank accounts and transactions

If you a bank or credit card account, you also delete all related transactions.

On a web browser

Delete data from connected bank and credit card accounts

Select the profile ⚙ icon and then Bank Accounts.
Find the account you want to delete.
Select the trash icon in that section.
Type “DELETE” and select Delete to confirm.

Delete transactions imported from a specific CSV

Select the profile ⚙ icon and then Imports.
Select the bank account you imported the CSV file into.
In the Files imported section, select the trash icon for a file.

This deletes all the transactions imported from the CSV file.

On an iPhone or iPad (iOS)

Select the profile icon and then Settings.
Select Bank Accounts.
Select the bank account you want to delete.
Select Delete Bank.
Confirm that you want to stop the connection and delete your data.

On an Android phone or tablet

Select the menu ☰ icon and then Settings.
Select Bank Accounts.
Select the three dots ⋮ icon for the bank account you want to delete.
Select Delete Bank and Delete to confirm.