Good day, @cflbakery. Currently, there isn’t an option to delete a reconciliation report. As a workaround, we can manually undo each transaction in that reconciliation report. Here’s how:Select the Gear icon.Under Your Company, select Chart of Accounts.Click on the account in question.From the Action column, select View Register (or Account History).Select the transaction to edit.In the reconcile status column (indicated by a check mark), repeatedly click on the box until it changes from "R" to blank.Select Save.To add, you can seek help from your accountant and get your reconciliation undone. If you already have an accountant added to your account, he/she can undo your reconciliation for you.Please feel free to read this article for more details: How to Unreconcile a Transaction or Undo a Reconciliation. Don’t hesitate to post again if you have any other concerns.

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How can delete reconciliation report

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Best answer by DarellA

Good day, @cflbakery.

Currently, there isn’t an option to delete a reconciliation report. As a workaround, we can manually undo each transaction in that reconciliation report.

Here’s how:

Select the Gear icon.
Under Your Company, select Chart of Accounts.
Click on the account in question.
From the Action column, select View Register (or Account History).
Select the transaction to edit.
In the reconcile status column (indicated by a check mark), repeatedly click on the box until it changes from "R" to blank.
Select Save.

To add, you can seek help from your accountant and get your reconciliation undone. If you already have an accountant added to your account, he/she can undo your reconciliation for you.

Please feel free to read this article for more details: How to Unreconcile a Transaction or Undo a Reconciliation.

Don’t hesitate to post again if you have any other concerns.

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DarellAAnswer

Good day, @cflbakery.

Currently, there isn’t an option to delete a reconciliation report. As a workaround, we can manually undo each transaction in that reconciliation report.

Here’s how:

Select the Gear icon.
Under Your Company, select Chart of Accounts.
Click on the account in question.
From the Action column, select View Register (or Account History).
Select the transaction to edit.
In the reconcile status column (indicated by a check mark), repeatedly click on the box until it changes from "R" to blank.
Select Save.

To add, you can seek help from your accountant and get your reconciliation undone. If you already have an accountant added to your account, he/she can undo your reconciliation for you.

Please feel free to read this article for more details: How to Unreconcile a Transaction or Undo a Reconciliation.

Don’t hesitate to post again if you have any other concerns.

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jtmarshall

Why in the world is there no option to clear a prior reconciliation report?? This is asinine. I entered transactions as "transfers" from my law firm's trust account but this screwed up my trust account liabilities, but because you cannot edit a "transfer" into a "expense" I had to delete the transactions and redo them. Now my reports are all screwed up and need to be re-reconciled. But no, you all want me to either pay for the accountants version or pay an accountant to undo a report that I run.

THIS KIND OF MENTALITY IS WHAT KILLS SMALL BUSINESSES, BUT CORPORATIONS LIKE INTUIT DO NOT CARE! You make software unnecessarily complex and then put us in a situation where we have to pay someone else to fix it when there should be an easy fix right in the software.

JessT

Moderator

I made an error in entering the starting balance, I need to edit that. You say I can't undo a reconciliation, I don't have an accountant to do this for me. WHY can't we edit the starting amount? You need to change this.

Hi maria94,

Hope you're having a good day!

We're unable to remove a reconciliation report. It will always stay in your records even if you redo your reconciliaton for a particular month.

On the other hand, if you want to see some references for QBO, you can visit the main support page, scroll down a bit, and click More topics.

If you have any other concern about reconciliation, feel free to go back to this thread.

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azim - Vancovuer BC

I want to start fresh and delete the last three conciliation reports. How can I do that?

I have already marked each of the transactions in Chart of Accounts, under chequing, as un reconciled.... the space has been left blank.

How do I go back and start a new reconciliation from January 2020?

Thanks, Azim

Anna S

Good evening, @azim - Vancovuer BC.

I hope you're having a successful week so far. Thank you for providing an update on deleting your reconciliations.

Since you manually unreconciled your transactions, you can go to the Accounting tab, choose Reconcile, and start your reconciliation from January 2020.

However, if QuickBooks still recognized your transactions as reconciled, then you'll need to get in touch with your accountant. They'll be able to undo all the reconciles so you can truly have a fresh start with your books. The articles provided by my colleague @DarellA above will give you more information on the accountant features.

Feel free to reply below if you have any other questions or concerns. I'm always here to lend a helping hand.

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azim - Vancovuer BC

Thanks for your suggestions. I do not use an account nor do I need one. Is there a way to delete them without an accountant. Can I be an account and go in myself? Thanks again.

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AbegailS_

Level 6

Hi there, @bb2016.

I recognize the importance of deleting your reconciliation report in bulk, as this makes your work easier. As of now, we don't have a specific date as to when this feature will be available in QuickBooks Online (QBO).

It is always our aim to develop relevant features that came from customer's feedback. As a team with a massive roadmap, we have to pick new features based on the value they’ll add to the most users possible.

You'd be glad to know that you can send feedback about the feature you wish to have with QuickBooks Online (QBO).

This way, our Product Developer team can have a look and review it. There are always open for opinions as this helps improve our product to suits your business needs. To send feedback, you can follow these steps:

Go to the Gear icon.
Select Feedback.
Enter your comments or product suggestions.
Then select Next to submit feedback.

You can also see this link for more details: How do I submit feedback?

For more details about how our reconciliation works, you can use this link: Learn the reconcile workflow in QuickBooks.

To view and export the report, please read this article for your guide: How do I view, print, or export a reconciliation report?

Please touch base with us if you have any concerns and questions regarding your reconciliation. As always, we're here to ensure that you'll get the help you need.

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MichaelAparicio

Maybe the solution for QBO is to create a paid add-on to allow regular users to delete reconciliation reports. That way QBO could plaster the ads all over every page of the software for weeks and months on end without any way to turn it off. If QBO could monetize it, it would be built out in 2 or three days, I'm sure. Oh, wait, I just realized it does exist, only you have to pay the accountant version to access it. No accountant? Out of luck, sorry!

I had this exact issue one year ago, and now today it popped its ugly head up again. I spent another 4 hours today un-reconciling entries--one by one--due to one error months ago that I was able to locate quite easily, but it threw everything off for all the months of reconciliations.

If only there was an easy way to select more than one reconciliation at a time.

If only there was an easy way to just delete a few months' worth of reconciliations and start over.

If only there was a way to start fresh months after a problem entry, with accurate data from bank statements.

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MKMFS

Wholeheartedly agree with everyone in this thread that it's absolutely ridiculous that a non-"Accountant" role can't undo a recon. The average QBO user is allowed to edit, delete or otherwise mess with any transaction they want...even transactions in historical Financial Periods. These actions could potentially can cause catastrophic damage to ones financial records...but Intuit draws the line at undoing/redoing an account reconciliation? Nonsense. QBO has decent usability, but it's woefully lacking in common sense features typical in financial software.

My advice...Use a different email address and add yourself as an "Accountant". It's utter tosh that we should have to do it, but it seems to be the only option Intuit has for us.

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/learn-support/en-us/help-article/account-management/managing-accountant-users-quickbooks-online/L2AcdYvHw_US_en_US

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historycommons

I agree with the masses that if you are able to create a reconciliation report, you should be able to delete it. I also don't have an accountant and thus am stuck.

I am catching up on books on a mostly dormant org and noticed that the novice I hired to do the books years ago, reconciled an account incorrectly (they put the wrong statement balance and then reconciled according to that incorrect balance requiring them to save 3 entries with the wrong amounts - smh)

I followed the instructions here to change the reconciliation status from R to blank on each transaction that was marked as such for a specific reconciliation report and it did nothing. The reports still exist when I go to reports => reconciliation and it shows the transactions in the last two reports were changed. For all the previous reports, they are unchanged. According to what I have read here, I should be able to redo the reports at this point, but I am not able to. The only recourse appears to undo what I just spent the last 2 hours doing and then I guess make an adjusting journal entry for the two entries that were off by pennies and do another reconciliation report.

As a professional product manager this makes no sense to me. There should be a setting somewhere that allows the owner of the account to delete reconciliation reports when there is no accountant linked to the organization.

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