{"id":9428,"date":"2024-05-02T13:38:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T12:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=9428"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:28:57","password":"","slug":"how-to-unlock-transactions","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/transactions\/how-to-unlock-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"How to unlock transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Locked transactions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can <em><strong>lock<\/strong><\/em> booked transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This makes the transactions unchangeable. Meaning that you cannot edit or delete them yourself once they have been locked.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Transactions that have been locked are marked with a green check mark in the transaction journal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Finances_transactions_locked-transaction.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Finances_transactions_locked-transaction-1024x404.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Finances_transactions_locked-transaction-1024x404.png 1024w, https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Finances_transactions_locked-transaction-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Finances_transactions_locked-transaction-768x303.png 768w, https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Finances_transactions_locked-transaction-1536x606.png 1536w, https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Finances_transactions_locked-transaction-360x142.png 360w, https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Finances_transactions_locked-transaction.png 1870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Correct falsely locked transactions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/basics-finance\/19-principles-for-proper-accounting\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"9434\">German principles of proper accounting (GoBD)<\/a> state that accounting must be clear and comprehensible. If a transaction has already been locked, it is considered confirmed and may no longer be changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If an error has occured, you take the right measure by making a <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/transactions\/19-how-to-cancel-transactions-2\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"9415\">reversal entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-artikel-zum-weiterlesen has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-89fd719a wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:8px;background-color:#f9fafb;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:24px;padding-top:32px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:32px;padding-left:24px\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Read more<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/transactions\/19-how-to-cancel-transactions-2\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"9415\">How to cancel transactions<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/transactions\/how-to-import-transactions\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"9425\">How to import transactions<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/basics-finance\/19-principles-for-proper-accounting\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"9434\">Principles for proper accounting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locked transactions You can lock booked transactions. Correct falsely locked transactions The German principles of proper accounting (GoBD) state that accounting must be clear and comprehensible. If a transaction has already been locked, it is considered confirmed and may no longer be changed. If an error has occured, you take the right measure by making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[439],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[224],"class_list":["post-9428","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-transactions","knowledge_base-churchtools-modules"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":107,"total_views":"2385","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"Jasper Stehmeier","author_nicename":"jstehmeier","author_url":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/author\/jstehmeier\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Transactions","term_url":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/transactions\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[{"term_name":"Modules","term_url":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/","term_slug":"churchtools-modules"}],"knowledge_base_slug":["churchtools-modules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/9428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/9428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39690,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/9428\/revisions\/39690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}