How do I manually rearrage the COA in QB Online. Not sort, but manually rearrange.

Hey there, steve105.

Currently, the option to arrange the list in the Chart of Accounts manually is unavailable in QuickBooks Online. We can only sort the list in ascending and descending order.

Here's how to sort the list:

1. Select Accounting from the sidebar menu, then click the Chart of Accounts.
2. You can click the NAME, TYPE, DETAIL TYPE, CURRENCY, QUICKBOOKS BALANCE, and BANK BALANCE to sort the lists.
3. Select ↓ to sort it in descending order or ↑ to sort the registers in ascending order.

I've included an article about using numbers in your Chart of Accounts. This will help keep your records organized.

Reach out to us again if you have further questions or need help in doing your work with QuickBooks. It's always our pleasure to help. 

I don't appreciate the chart of accounts with QBO.  So many useless accounts that real accounting professionals do not use.  

And Generic accounts  - office supplies and software - really???  They are two separate accounts and should not be together.  It would be wise to hire some accounting professionals to help with some this online program.

I am very disheartened to discover that I cannot manually re-arrange/re-order my COA to show on my financials the way management would like to see them. The available options are not suitable for all situations. Can this be escalated to a product enhancement that will be available ASAP?

Thank you,

Have to chime in just to keep thread going. It's 2022. The feedback on manually being able to reorder accounts is here. We should not need to fill out more forms to request a basic feature that has been part of QB for at least 20+ years. incredibly disappointing.

Directing your customers to go to feedback with their suggestions isn't how you make your software better.
Quickbooks themselves should be proactive in searching the forums etc to find what changes need to be made and to hear what it's users are saying. Most users are not going to go into quickbooks and click on feedback to voice their concerns. They will do it on the forums. So if you want to improve Quickbooks that is what you need to do!

Another year has almost gone by and I guess it still isn't possible to manually rearrange the sort order in the COA. This lack of such basic user functionality forces us to work around it at huge investments of time. An earlier comment about such a feature being "locked away" so non-accountants won't screw things up makes sense, but only in Intuit-world. 

Once again, when I have a question about how to do something, I come to the Community to see the question has been asked before--and the answer almost always seems to be "You can't."