# Delete a member, and what is kept

> Delete a person's record for good, for a duplicate or a mistake, and what stays afterwards. For someone who has left, set a status instead.

Who this is for: Anyone with “Add and change members” or “See members and contacts” (by default: Administrator, Head Coach, Casual Staff, Reporting).
Last checked in release 2026.10.23, on 23 October 2026.
Source: https://sportsclubos.net/help/members/delete-a-member/

Deleting takes a person's record off the member list for good. It cannot be undone. Use it for a record made by mistake or a duplicate. For someone who has left the club, set their status to **Lapsed** or **Cancelled** instead: their history, household and tags stay, they drop out of the current members, and the club's reports can count them as leavers. See [Membership statuses, and what Expired means](https://sportsclubos.net/help/members/statuses/index.md).

## Before you start

- You need to be able to add and change members. The Administrator, Head Coach and Casual Staff roles can by default.
- If the person heads a household, link the others to their new head first, or unlink them. See [Households: who pays for whom](https://sportsclubos.net/help/members/households/index.md).
- For a duplicate, copy anything you need from it onto the record you are keeping first: Sports Club OS does not merge two records.

## Delete one person

1. Open the person's page and press **Edit details**.
2. Press **Delete** at the bottom left of the side panel.
3. Sports Club OS asks, for example, **Delete Harriet Newmember permanently? Their bookings and invoices are kept.**
4. Press **OK**. A message says **Deleted**, and the record is gone from the list.

## Delete several people

1. Tick them on the member list.
2. Press **Delete** in the bar.
3. Sports Club OS asks, for example, **Delete 3 records permanently? This can't be undone.** If any of them are not shown by the current filters, it says how many and tells you to press **Cancel** and use **Keep only those shown** if you did not mean them.
4. Press **OK**.

## What is kept

- **Bookings and invoices** stay, with their payments, so the club's figures do not change.
- **The record of the change**: the person's leaving is counted in the club's membership reports, and the deletion is in the audit log with who did it and when.

## What goes

- The record itself: details, membership, tags, notes and household links.
- **Their login's link to the record.** A login they had is no longer tied to a member, so they lose their member pages. The login itself is still on Admin > Users, to remove there if it should go.