{"schema":"exacc.help.page/1","url":"https://exacc.au/help/find-and-update-transactions/","title":"Change many transactions at once (Find & Update)","description":"Find transactions by date and account and change their date, account, tax code, contact, site or private portion in one go. There is no undo.","category":"Accounting","summary":"Open **Books › Find and Update**, choose the date range and **Accounts**, select the transactions, pick what to **Change** (Date, Account, Tax Code, Contact, Site, Varied Tax or Private Portion) and click **Apply changes**. There is no undo, so check the selection first.","lastVerified":"2026-10-09","apps":["app"],"processIds":["find_and_update"],"start":{"label":"Open Find & Update","url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/books/find-and-update"},"menuPath":["Books","Accounting","Find and Update"],"steps":[{"step":1,"title":"Find the transactions","body":["Open **Books › Find and Update**, set the date range and the **Accounts** to search, and tick the transactions to change."],"url":"https://app.exacc.au/{dbId}/books/find-and-update","image":"https://exacc.au/help/find-and-update-transactions/step-1.png"},{"step":2,"title":"Choose the change","body":["Under **Change:** pick **Date**, **Account**, **Tax Code**, **Contact**, **Site**, **Varied Tax** or **Private Portion** and the new value. **Total Selected** and **Selected with impossible actions** show how many will change and how many cannot."]},{"step":3,"title":"Apply","body":["Click **Apply changes**. There is no undo: to go back, run Find & Update again with the old value."]}],"sections":[{"heading":"What cannot be changed here","body":["The account is not changed on reconciled lines or lines from a bank feed, and pay run lines take only a new account or site. To change one line of an invoice or bill, edit the invoice or bill itself: changes here are meant for journals and bank transactions."]}],"related":["https://exacc.au/help/review-transactions/","https://exacc.au/help/chart-of-accounts/","https://exacc.au/help/gst-tax-codes/","https://exacc.au/help/lock-accounting-period/"],"linkNote":"Links containing {dbId} open that screen in the business file whose id is dbId. A person can also open this help page with ?db=<dbId> to get the same links as buttons."}