Help & Tips

For audit reasons, printed invoices and customers linked to an invoice cannot be deleted – that is a basic principle of proper invoicing. An invoice can only be removed while it is still a draft. Customers can be set to inactive afterwards, which removes them from the selection lists.

If you are just starting out and have only run a few tests, the easiest way is to start over with a new, empty database – right in the app, no Finder needed:

1. Settings → Database, under Database profiles click New database… and enter a name, e.g. “My company”
2. Next to the new database click Activate and confirm with Switch and restart app
3. SWawi restarts with an empty database, and the setup wizard (“Make it easy”) opens again.
4. To get rid of the old database with the test data: back in Settings → Database, click the trash icon next to it and confirm with Delete. An active database cannot be deleted – that is why step 2 comes first.

Tip: The test database can also stay. Click the database name in the header bar to switch between the two at any time – one for real data, one to play with. SWawi easy allows two databases; if two already exist, delete one first.

Important: Once you have issued real invoices, this route is no longer advisable. From then on the normal rule applies: cancel an invoice rather than delete it.