Remove All Contacts in QuickBooks

To remove all contacts from QuickBooks, you are first required to navigate to the Sales menu. Changes are to be made under the Customer tab. However, deleting these contacts and making them inactive are two different actions and both have their significance. You only have the option to mark them as inactive contacts. This reduces your efforts when you again have to save these contacts, all you need to do is to mark them active when they are again in use.

Apart from that, users try to remove all contacts from QuickBooks to avoid clutter in the database. Before you start the process of removing or deleting contacts in QuickBooks, you must remember that once deleted, these contacts will never be retrieved. So, you must follow the steps given below very carefully, and double-check the contact details before you delete them permanently delete it.

Why do you need to Consider the Removal of Contacts from QuickBooks?

At times, you might need to hide or remove obsolete contact data that you no longer need from QuickBooks. This data bundle can include information on contacts who might be your clients or customers. Too much heavy data leads to confusion and can interfere with your daily activities on QuickBooks.

Thus, you would need to let go of some of your ‘no longer needed’ contacts from QuickBooks. Most importantly, one of the best advantages of removing contacts on QuickBooks is that you don’t necessarily need to remove an entire list; you can choose individual contacts or make a group list of contacts to remove or hide from QuickBooks.

Let’s help you surf through the quick steps involved in removing all contacts from QuickBooks.

How to Delete/Remove All Contacts from the Audience in QuickBooks?

Use the All Contacts page to remove contacts from your audience in bulk when the time comes. Go to the Contact Table after seeing the contact’s profile page to remove a single contact:

Delete Contacts from Audience in Bulk

If you want to delete contacts in bulk from the contact table, follow the steps given below:

• Step 1: After selecting Audience, select All Contacts.
• Step 2: Select the desired audience to work with by clicking the Current Audience drop-down menu if you have several audiences.
• Step 3: Select and add a tick mark on the box placed next to each contact that you wish to delete.
• Step 4: Select Delete Contacts after clicking the three vertical dots.
• Step 5: Select “They asked me to and I must comply with privacy laws like GDPR/CCPA” from the Review delete versus archive pop-up window, then click Continue to delete.
• Step 6: Select the statement “I understand that these contacts cannot be re-imported again” in the Permanently Delete Contacts pop-up window.
• Step 7: Lastly, you will have to click on the Permanently Delete button after entering PERMANENTLY DELETE.

Delete Single Contacts From the Audience

Here are the steps that you must follow to delete the single contact information from the profile page:

• Step 1: After selecting Audience, select All Contacts.
• Step 2: Select the desired audience to work with by clicking the Current Audience drop-down menu if you have several audiences.
• Step 3: To view the contact’s profile, click on them.
• Step 4: Press and hold the three vertical dots, then select the Delete button.
• Step 5: In the pop-up modal, you will have to choose the Permanently Delete button, and then click Permanently Delete Contact to finish the process.

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