SME Professional has been designed specifically to prevent the deletion of contractor records due to the important financial information logged against them.
Instead, we recommend that users set contractors to Past contractor. This removes the contractor from the list of current contractors while ensuring that all financial information linked to them is retained.
1. Setting a contractor to past
Go to Contractors > View contractors
Locate the contractor in question
Click on the edit pencil icon
Expand the Contractor status dropdown and select Past contractor
Click Update contractor
2. Viewing past contractors
Go to Contractors > View contractors
Expand the Filter by status dropdown (highlighted below)
Select View past contractors
The table will then update to list only past contractor records.