Let's review a report to resolve the error, lmatch. You run the Uninvoiced Charges or Unbilled Charges report to check if the employee is used in one of the transactions. Here's how: Go to the Reports menu. Look for Uninvoiced Charges or Unbilled Charges report. Check if the employee that you're trying to delete is used in one of the transactions. Click the transaction to open it. Uncheck the Billable box. Click Save and Close. Once done, delete the employee to check if that works. You can also reply to this thread if you have follow-up questions.

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Has anyone run into this? Error: This employee cannot be deleted because it is used in unbilled charges

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
January 8, 2019
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JenoP

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Let's review a report to resolve the error, lmatch.

You run the Uninvoiced Charges or Unbilled Charges report to check if the employee is used in one of the transactions. Here's how:

Go to the Reports menu.
Look for Uninvoiced Charges or Unbilled Charges report.
Check if the employee that you're trying to delete is used in one of the transactions.
Click the transaction to open it.
Uncheck the Billable box.
Click Save and Close.

Once done, delete the employee to check if that works. You can also reply to this thread if you have follow-up questions.

lmatchAuthor

Thanks for the reply. That was the first thing I looked at, and there are no unbilled invoices or unbilled time (those are the only two reports that come up for me) for this former employee. Other former employees deleted (made inactive) just fine.

Paul C

Hi again, lmatch.

Thanks for letting me know that you're able to make the employee inactive. I'll also send your feedback about the name of the report to our engineers so they can take a look at it.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Is there another solution to this problem? Like much of the world, I just had to layoff several employees, and the have thousands of billable hours that weren't billed because they weren't "hourly" projects. Now it looks like I have to uncheck each entry one at a time. Would take hours or days to do. There must be another way

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