I want to totally delete my inventory, including all items within and start again. how do i do that?

Good Day

Has there been any headway in able to delete all Inventory?

I uploaded my batches incorrectly and now have a huge amount of unwanted data in the inactive folder

Glad to have you here in the Community, @Glue devil.

Currently, the option to completely delete inventory items still isn't available in QuickBooks. However, you can consider inactivating the items as mentioned by my colleague Jen_D above.

I know you've got a vast amount of undesired items in the inactive folder and want to delete them completely in QuickBooks. But I want to let you know that your voice matters and I'm submitting your feedback directly to our engineers. 

For now, you can visit our blog site so you'll be able to get the latest news about QuickBooks and what our Product Care Team is working on.  

Please feel free to post any other questions you have below. The Community and I are always here to help you out.

I'm in need of the option as well. Inactive files/items hog data space. There needs to be and end-user Admin preference with 3 or 4 warning windows and auto-back up mandatory, whatever to help protect folks from themselves, but right now this restriction feels like throwing the baby out with the bath water. Those with the aptitude should have the access without having to write a program to crawl every inventory adjust, trans, and activity to erase the links between the item and then delete it, repeat 1500. That's how many we have to delete. Thanks for listening.

Hello TCPT,

I appreciate you for joining the thread here in the Community. Allow to chime in for a moment and assist you regarding the feature you need in QuickBooks Desktop.

I understand how crucial saving time for you and your business in terms of managing your inventory. That said, I'm personally taking note of your requests, and I agree with having complete batch action abilities for the Admin users.

While this is still unavailable, I suggest visiting the website I'm adding below. It'll provide you updates into the new features available for the QuickBooks program.

https://quickbooks.intuit.com/blog/.

Please know you can get back to me anytime you have additional questions and concerns with doing batch actions activity. The Community ensures your success.

Thank you for not a answering any of concerns of people actually running their business with Quickbooks.

What is plan to get inventory management feature in reasonable order as currently it is not. How to fix balance sheet that is completely messed up due to badly implemented QB feature?

I will give you example: Someone created item as inventory items, people keep selling and delivering that and purchasing from vendors (without PO's or Invoices); Now inventory shows -2000 pcs with 100.000 USD that company owes to somewhere when you run balance sheet, when in reality it does not. 

Any plans to  provide instructions how to clean up this?

Our goal here is to help our customer's concerns get fixed, jpajunen. 

I'd be glad to assist with your issue. Here are possible reasons for having a negative inventory in Quickbooks:

• You haven't recorded all purchase orders into QuickBooks.
• You've miscounted your physical inventory so the quantity is different.
• The quantity you got from your vendor didn't match the purchase order.
• You haven't converted the purchase orders to bills. QBO only counts inventory after you create a bill.

To resolve this, we can create an  Inventory Adjustment to correct the quantity on hand. 

Moving forward, you can follow the steps below to avoid this from happening again. We'll have to create Purchase Orders. This indicates the types, quantities, and prices agreed for the products or services. We'll have to make sure this feature is turned on. Here's how:

1. Go to the Gear icon and select Account and Settings.
2. Select the Expenses tab.
3. In the Purchase orders section, click the pencil icon.
4. Check the Use purchase orders box.
5. Click Save.

Once done, create a purchase order and convert them to bills so QuickBooks will count items as inventory.

1. Click the +New icon and select Purchase Order.
2. Enter the required field.
3. In the Category details/or Item details section, enter the purchases. Note that only those products or services marked as "I purchased this product/services from vendor" will appear in the Item details section.
4. Select Save and close.

Convert open purchase orders to bills:

1. In the purchase order window, click the Copy to Bill button.
2. Review the Bill.
3. Click Save and close.

After converting all open purchase orders, we can run the Inventory Valuation Detail report to give us an updated inventory count in QuickBooks. Please check this article to learn more details: Fix negative inventory issues in QuickBooks Online.

With the instructions above, I'm sure we're able to clean up your inventory concerns.

If there's anything else I can help you with, please tag me directly. I'll be sure to get back to you.

Thank you for the information.  However, I am not trying to do an inventory adjustment, but rather delete the inventory codes captured in QB completely.  The initial load was done incorrectly and now we have some items in there 3 times.  Id liked to delete the incorrect ones or all and start again.

Thank you

Any headway to resolve this issue?

I'm at the point where I'm ready to reset QB completely

It sounds like that will be what you have to do.

Use a different email and start fresh on a new account.

I don't think QB has any intention of solving this problem. 

I do understand their view as inventory can be so tangled between sales orders, invoices, and POs that deleting it would break the system. However, if there were no records connecting to this item, I don't see the harm in being able to delete it. But QB has decided that this isn't a pressing issue for them.

@Anonymous 

That's the "beauty" of QBO. We are unable to remove any List data once it recorded. Utilize the trial period of a 3rd party tool export your data and reimport back once you have purge your account.

https:// transactionpro.grsm.io/qbo

Make sure you account age didn't reach 60 days old yet. Otherwise you have to open a new QBO account. 

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I'm New on QBO and Im not the only one requesting this. When is it going to be availlable?

I have the same issue.  QB doesn't seem to care about it.  My biggest mistake was changing from SAGE to QB.

Add my vote to completely delete inventory. a lot of testing is done during setup and customization and then you are stuck with Inventory out of sync.

I agree.  I would also like to be able to control my own inventory.  Why does QB not allow this customization?  

I would like to delete it completely too

This is totally needed and it's needed as soon as possible. The system must account for human mistakes and we can't simply fix them. I'm surprised this is not an existing feature already. Without this it's not even possible to run accurate reports. Is there any ETA to have this capability?

I appreciate you jumping into this thread, cleantakeoff.

The ability to completely delete an inventory is not possible in QuickBooks Online (QBO). Being able to improve the customization option for inventory items is a good idea.

You may want to keep this article handy about editing items in QuickBooks: Add product and service items to QuickBooks Online.

While we can't provide a specific time frame for the implementation, I encourage you to visit our QuickBooks Blog. To stay updated with the latest QuickBooks news and updates.

Of course, you're always welcome to visit us again if you need help while working with QuickBooks. It will be my pleasure. Stay safe and have a great day ahead

I've used QuickBooks Enterprise for over 15 years and have no idea how much useless data accumulates in inventory because they can't permanently delete it. It would be interesting an option to replace existing items with a new list of them.

This is a very important feature that QuickBooks must upgrade in the platform. I can't imagine how dificult it is for companies who sales different products and are constantly changing their inventory.

Has this feature still not been implemented? I am sitting with over 2000 products that have opening balances and I have to manually adjust them to 0 individually to fix my opening balance equity account. This really needs to be reviewed again! I was told by support to just make the unwanted items inactive but because they have quantities and cost prices it has ballooned my OBE to over $1 million (it should only be $300,000+-)

Any tips for me? I need to start the inventory from scratch with OBE, Inventory asset, and Inventory shrinkage to be $0

Hello joslyn1!

I understand that you need to delete completely your inventory items. Let me help you.

As of the moment, we're unable to delete an inventory in QuickBooks Online. The reason is that we want to make sure your data is intact and accurate.

What we can do is to make them inactive. If these products you want to mark inactive still have quantities on hand, the system will automatically create an adjustment to make it zero. Here's how:

1. From the Gear icon, select Products and Services.
2. Find the product or service you want to change.
3. From the Action dropdown, select Make inactive. Tap Yes to confirm.

A product feature is more likely to be implemented if our developers received more requests about it. With this, I encourage you to send one by clicking the Gear icon and select Feedback.

In addition, you may visit this page if you need more references in managing a business: QBO Articles.

Keep on posting here if you have other concerns. Take care always!

Thanks for the reply but because they were loaded as an opening balance it has ballooned my OBE account and made the inventory shrinkage huge. Not being able to delete inventory is really, really stupid!