Tenant Ledger

Delete a bill

You can remove a bill you entered by mistake or no longer need. To protect your records, the app blocks the deletion while the bill has a payment applied to it.

Before you start

  • Deleting is a soft delete: the bill is hidden from your active lists, but the underlying history is preserved.
  • An unpaid bill (one with no payment recorded against it) can be deleted right away.

What blocks this delete

The app will not delete a bill that has any payment applied — whether the bill was paid in full or only partially. If you try, the delete is stopped and you’ll see a message such as:

“You cannot delete this bill because it was paid or partially paid.”

(Behind the scenes the same rule reads: “This bill cannot be deleted because it has N payment(s) applied. You must delete the payment(s) first before deleting this bill.”)

What to remove first, in order:

  1. Open the bill’s Summary page and find the payment under the Payments section.
  2. Delete the bill payment. If that payment was included in a bank reconciliation, the payment itself is protected — you must first delete (or detach via Unreconcile) the reconciliation, then delete the bill payment. See Undo or delete a reconciliation.
  3. Once no payments remain on the bill, delete the bill.

Steps

  1. In the left sidebar, click Bills.

    The Bills list page showing bills with their status and amounts

  2. Click the bill to open its Summary page.

  3. Open the Actions menu (top right) and choose Delete Bill.

  4. In the confirmation pop-up (“Please confirm that you would like to DELETE this Bill”), click DELETE.

What you’ll see

If the bill has no payments, it’s removed from the Bills list and you see a confirmation that the bill was deleted. If a payment is still applied, the page stays on the bill’s Summary and shows a warning that the bill can’t be deleted because it was paid or partially paid — remove the payment first, then try again.

Tips

  • Deleting a paid bill is a multi-step job by design: delete the reconciliation (if any) → delete the bill payment → delete the bill. Each step has its own confirmation.
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