Purge Data

In PRPay you can delete old payroll and contractor payments with the purge options. It will not delete any companies, employees, or contractors, but only payments.

If you have large amounts of data and purge what is unnecessary, your system performance will greatly improve.

1. Backup the data before deleting it.
2. To purge payments, click File and select Purge Payroll Data or Purge Contractor Data, depending on what data you will delete. The Delete window appears.

3. On the For section, select All employers if you wish to delete the payments of all the employers in PRPay or Selected employer to select only one.
4. If you clicked on Selected employer, select one employer from the list.
5. On the From and Through fields, enter the date range for which you want to delete payments.
6. Click Delete to purge the data for the period selected.
7. Click Yes on the Delete pop-up window to continue.
8. Click Ok to exit the window.
9. Run the reindex and rebuild options located on the File menu.

To see the purged data:

Follow these steps to see the back up data (step one above).

1. Create a folder on your drive that is not your current PRPay folder.  
2. Start PRPay and write down the current location of the data path.
3. Change the data path to the new folder.
4. Restore the backup.
5. To see the previous data change the data path to the location written down on step 2.