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Bulk account deletion option

  • Rich Gregory shared this idea 5 years ago
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WHMCS does not naively offer a bulk delete option.
I have quite a number of "bad" (now closed) accounts created (registered) by bots or hackers. I closed all these nuisance accounts but do not see a way to PURGE or bulk DELETE them en mass.
I'd like to be able to be able check off tick marks next to these accounts in the "View/Search Clients" screen and choose to bulk purge them from my WHMCS. At present they need to be deleted one at a time.
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    Bulk delete inactive clients
    Sometimes it becomes necessary to delete a lot of inactive clients from the database, they should include this functionality

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> We don't offer a mass delete function intentionally so as to prevent irrevocable and permanent deletion of data; malicious or accidental.

Did you heard about backups?

> I'd like to be able to be able check off tick marks next to these accounts in the "View/Search Clients" screen and choose to bulk purge them from my WHMCS. At present they need to be deleted one at a time.

This is a STANDARD solution in many webapps, but not here.
We should be responsible for our data security.
This future is common everywhere.
Hi there,
Thanks for your suggestion.
We don't offer a mass delete function intentionally so as to prevent irrevocable and permanent deletion of data; malicious or accidental.
Inactive can automatically be deleted after a period of holding no services or logins through the Data Retention Policy Automation, so this may meet your requirements instead: https://docs.whmcs.com/Data_Retention_Policy_Automation
This is common sense to expect such a feature to be present.
I was able to mass delete 500 at a time in Cpanel, using phpMyAdmin.