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# Considerations for Removing Price Books

To remove price books from related lists, you can archive, deactivate, or delete the price books. Each removal option has a different result. Before you remove a price book from your related lists, determine which option best fits your business needs.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Products, product schedules, price books, and quotes available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience</td><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Orders available in Salesforce Classic</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Products, product schedules, price books, and orders available in: <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Quotes available in: <strong>Performance</strong> and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions and in <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, and <strong>Unlimited</strong> Editions with Sales</td></tr></tbody></table>

- Deleting, deactivating, or archiving a custom price book doesn’t affect other price books or your product lists. However, these actions can affect your opportunities and quotes. Changing associations with opportunities or quotes is sometimes required before you can remove an associated price book.
- You can deactivate the standard price book, but you can’t delete or archive it.

## Considerations for Deleting Price Books

- You can’t delete a price book while it’s in use on opportunities or quotes. If you try to, the system creates a list of the opportunities or quotes where the price book is used.
- When you delete a price book, you delete all entries in the price book. The deleted price book and its entries move to the Recycle Bin. You can restore them for up to 15 days.

## Considerations for Deactivating Price Books

- You can activate, deactivate, or reactivate price books at any time by changing the price book’s properties.
- You can deactivate a price book even if it’s used on an opportunity or quote.
- You can continue to manage entries in your price book while it’s deactivated.

## Considerations for Archiving Price Books

To archive a price book, open the price book and switch to Saleforce Classic. Click Archive and confirm that you want to archive the price book.

- You can archive a price book even if it’s in use on an opportunity or quote.
- An archived price book is visible, but not accessible, in all associated records.
- Entries in archived price books don’t appear in search results.
- You can’t recover or delete an archived price book.