Purge Criteria - Vendors
When you select all desired options in the Purge wizard and then start the purge process, the wizard analyzes whether individual transaction and maintenance records can be deleted based on a number of criteria. This topic describes the criteria that determine when vendors will not be purged.
A vendor is retained if one of the following is true:
- It is active.
- The vendor is used on any of the following transactions that have not be purged:
- purchase orders
- purchases
- vendor credit memos
- payments
- receipts or vendor refunds
- time and expense tickets (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
- The customer is used on any of the following memorized transactions:
- purchase orders
- payments
- The vendor is the preferred vendor for any inventory items that have not been purged.
- The vendor is the agency to which taxes are payable for a sales tax agency.