Deleting a sell transaction is how you undo a sale — either because the sale didn't really happen, or because you picked the wrong items at sale time and need to redo the disposal cleanly.
Unlike deleting a buy, a sell delete is restorative: the items come back to your holdings and become available to sell again.
This article covers the click path, what returns to your ledger, and when to reach for delete instead of an edit.
Opening the delete control
Sell transactions live on the same Transactions page as your buys and use the same red trash icon on the right side of each row. The Type column shows a "Sell" label so you can tell which rows are disposals at a glance. Click the trash icon on a sale row to start a delete.
If you'd rather see only your sales while you're sorting through them, the Sales tab above the list filters the table down to just disposals.
The confirmation step
After you click the trash icon you'll be asked to confirm. The prompt is the place to pause — deleting a sale doesn't just remove the sale; it also brings the items it disposed of back into your held inventory.
That's almost always what you want, but it's worth a second of attention before you click through.
If you click away from the confirmation, the sale stays exactly as it was. Nothing is removed or restored until you confirm.
What gets removed and what gets restored
A sell transaction and the items it disposed of are linked. Deleting the sale unwinds the link in one operation:
The sale transaction itself disappears from the Transactions list.
Every item that was on the sale is restored to held status and reappears in your Holdings. Each item goes back to its original cost basis, purchase date, and any nicknames or annotations you had attached to it.
The realized gain or loss from those items is removed from your records. There's no "deleted sale" archive — the disposal simply unhappens.
The items don't get re-created from scratch. They were never really gone — they were marked as sold and hidden from the held view. Deleting the sale flips them back.
What also updates downstream
Once the delete is committed, the rest of the app catches up immediately:
The Dashboard brings the restored items back into Total Portfolio Value, Top Holdings, and the metal allocation breakdown.
The Holdings page lists those items again in every view — group, list, and card.
The Analytics page drops the realized gain or loss from performance and updates cost-basis allocation to include the restored items.
The Annual Report for the year of the original sale no longer references this disposal. Generate it again and the numbers reflect the deletion.
That last point is the one to think about if the sale was already pulled into a tax-year report you've filed against. Deleting it changes the underlying numbers; if the report has already gone to your accountant or to the IRS, you'll want to coordinate before you delete.
There's no undo
A deleted sale is gone the same way a deleted buy is. The items are still in your ledger because they're restored to held, but the sale record itself can't be brought back.
If you delete the wrong sale, the recovery path is to re-record it — pick the same items from Holdings, enter the same sale date, the same dealer, and the same per-item sale prices.
The Sale Price field is the only piece you really need to source from a receipt; everything else is in your memory or your dealer correspondence.
When deleting a sale is the right move
The most common reason to delete a sale is the one the Edit Sale form points you to: the items selected at sale time were wrong. Item selection is locked once a sale is saved, so there's no way to swap one Krugerrand for another from the edit form.
Delete the sale (which restores all the items), then record a fresh sale with the correct selection.
Other clean reasons to delete:
The sale never actually happened. A test entry, a sale you backed out of, a price agreement that fell through.
The sale was duplicated. You recorded the same disposal twice from two sets of notes.
The sale landed in the wrong portfolio. Delete it and re-record in the correct one.
Delete or edit? A short rubric
The shortest version, for sales:
Edit if the sale really happened but a transaction-level field is wrong — date, dealer, name, notes — or if a sale price needs correction. Edits cover most fixes.
Delete and re-record if you picked the wrong items at sale time. Item selection is locked, so this is the only way to fix it.
Delete with no re-record if the sale shouldn't exist at all.
Where to go next
Deleting a buy transaction: The equivalent for purchases, including the cascade onto the inventory items the buy created.
Editing a transaction after the fact: When an edit is the better tool than a delete.
Undoing a mistake: Patterns for the most common entry errors and the cleanest recovery for each.
How to record a sale: the form you'll use to re-record after a delete-and-replace.