How to delete member / contact records

Overview

• Once in a while you probably want to delete some records that have are outdated or were just added for testing purposes.
• You can delete your contact records one by one but this is only practical for a few records. If you have many records Wild Apricot also gives you the option of deleting all / some of them at once.
• Wild Apricot also allows you to merge 2 records together (e.g. if the same person was added into the system more than once) so you don't need to delete the other record in this case, see Merging Records

How to delete a member / contact record

• To delete a single record first archive the record, then delete it afterwards, see Archived vs. active records

How to delete member / contact records in bulk

• This option is useful when you want to remove all records e.g. to clean up your entire test database records created during your evaluation of Wild Apricot.
• You can also delete some of the records only in bulk (say you want to delete half the records only)
  • To delete some records only: first archive all the records you want to delete, then select delete archived only (see below).
  • To archive in bulk see Bulk changes using import and export

How to delete all contacts

To delete all existing contacts go to Settings ->Account and billing -> Delete all contacts

This function will PERMANENTLY delete the records from your contact database and they cannot be recovered.

The next screen will have several options. The most important is Select records to delete that offers three options:

1. All except administrators - deletes all records except for the records with administrative privileges.
2. All (except your own record) - deletes all records except the one you are logged in under right now.
3. Archived only - deletes all archived records.

Type DELETE , enter your password and click on [Delete members] button.