How do you undo a batch transaction in QuickBooks Online?

Hi there, mark20.

Welcome to the Community. I can help you with undoing a batch transaction in QuickBooks Online.

To make sure I'm on the same page, are you referring to undoing bank transactions that have been added to the QuickBooks register?

Here's how you would undo them:

1. Click the Banking tab in the left navigation bar.

2. Make sure the correct account that you need to work in is highlighted in blue at the top of the page.

3. Select the In QuickBooks tab.

4. Place a check mark in the box(es) for the transactions you'd like to undo.

5. Click the Undo button that appears at the top of the list.

These transactions will then be moved back to the For Review section. If you don't need these in QuickBooks, you can add them the to Excluded section. Here's how:

1. From the For Review tab, check the transactions that need to be excluded.

2. Select the Batch actions button, and click Exclude Selected.

They will then be moved to the Exclude tab. From there, you're able to go one step further and completely delete the transaction, which can't be undone.

This article will give you additional details on using the adding and matching feature for the bank feed in QuickBooks Online: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/community/Banking-and-bank-feeds/Add-and-match-Bank-Feed-transactions/m-p/203759.

I wish you and your business continued success. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any other questions.

I appreciate the information from QBO experts/staff here, that basically Quickbooks isn't set up to handle this kind of Undo operation. I think it isn't really very risky to simply undo the acceptance of multiple transactions and add them back to the "for review" column, and meanwhile I am nervous about what actually happened when I clicked "Undo" in the Edit menu, since the transactions didn't revert. Product feedback in this paragraph here to pass on.

I found a workaround, however, that others may find useful - as this just happened to me with a bulk add of 79 transactions.

Simply press CTRL+F (Win) or CMD+F (Mac) to bring up the Find in Page dialog at the top right on the screen - works in desktop as well as web versions of QBO. Then search for the type of transactions you remember just approving, e.g. "expense:", and every one on the screen will highlight, so you can quickly do a visual scan and identify the ones you need to Undo. For me I have to do this over multiple pages of transactions but it's a lot faster than going one by one through everything. Hope this saves you some time!

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