Purge Criteria

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Review the purge log

Start the purge process

Review the entire Purge wizard process

Perform other administrative tasks

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. The wizard goes through record types selected for purging in the following order:

  1. jobs
  2. tickets (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
  3. receivables transactions
  4. payables transactions
  5. payroll transactions
  6. inventory transactions
  7. general journals
  8. audit trails(Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
  9. customers
  10. inventory items
  11. vendors
  12. employees
  13. phases (Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
  14. cost codes(Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher)
  15. general ledger accounts

Note: Since the wizard follows the order outlined above, if you stop the purge process for any reason, you can tell which types of items have been purged by noting, in the Purge Is in Progress window, the record type where the wizard stopped purging. This will appear above the first of the two progress bars in the window.