Merging Accounts

For an account, if you have two records that are identical, and are meant for a common purpose, you can merge them into one record.

Following are steps to merge two accounts.

Step 1: Go to Chart of Accounts

Navigate to: Accounts > Documents > Chart of Accounts

COA

Step 2: Go to Account

Click on the account that you wish to merge with another document, and then click on the 'Edit' option.

Chart of Accounts - Expenses

Step 3: Merge Account

The document will open with different options present on the top. Click on 'Merge Account'. Enter the name of the account with which you want to merge the existing account.

Merge Account

Effect of Merging

After the Account is merged, the new name is updated in the existing transactions where an old account was selected.

Group Account cannot be merged into Child Account and vice versa.

Related Topics

  1. Changing Parent Account

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