A receipt or cheque dated before your firm's Legal Accounting start-up date cannot be deleted directly. The delete option is unavailable because the entry falls outside the period the system will accept changes in.

This article explains the workaround: re-date the entry into the current period, then delete it.

Before you begin:

• Confirm the entry genuinely needs removing rather than correcting. Re-dating and deleting leaves no trace of the original date.

Caution: This changes the date of a financial transaction before deleting it. Check your firm's record-keeping obligations, and your law society's requirements for trust transactions, before using this method.

Note: If the entry is cleared on a Bank Reconciliation or Billed on the file you will not be able to change the date on the entry, without undoing which function has already locked it.

To remove a receipt:

1. Find the entry by using the Trust or Operating Bank Journal. (For client expense cheques you can also find the entry in the client ledger.
2. Open the transaction and click the date field.  
3. Change the Date to today's date.
4. Click Save. The entry now sits in the current period.
5. Open the entry again and delete it. The delete option is now available. 

Updated October 02, 2026 20:42