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title: "Empty auto batches stuck in the pending status area"
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updated: 2026-07-14T23:55:49Z
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# Empty auto batches stuck in the pending status area

![](https://cdn.document360.io/961862ab-d0f2-4d91-bb62-a62ee8184eff/Images/Documentation/anvil-wrench.png) Troubleshooting **Role:** Administrator · Accountant · Bookkeeper · Office Admin**Area:** Accounting > Batch/Export Transactions · All versions

## **What you're seeing**

One or more auto batches with no transactions in them keep showing up in the pending status area. You can't delete them, so the pending queue stays cluttered with empty batches you don't need.

## **Why this happens**

There is 1 common reason.

**Reason 1**

**Auto batching generated a batch with no transactions.** These empty batches can't be deleted — they can only be cleared by bypassing them, which marks them as exported and removes them from the pending area.

## **How to fix it**

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** You need Accounting permissions to post and bypass batches in Accounting. If you don't have it, contact your admin.

> [!NOTE]
> **Caution:** Bypassing a batch marks it as Exported in ServiceTitan without sending anything to your accounting software. Because the batch is empty, no transaction data is affected.

### **1****Post and bypass each empty batch**

Use this if empty auto batches remain in the pending status area and can't be deleted.

1. On the navigation bar, click **Accounting**.
2. In the side panel, click **Batch/Export Transactions**.
3. Identify an empty auto batch you want to clear and select it from the dropdown.
4. If the batch hasn't been posted yet, select **Post the selected batch** from the dropdown.
5. Click the dropdown again and select **Bypass export**.
6. Repeat steps 3–5 for any additional empty auto batches.

> [!NOTE]
> **✓ Done ·** The status for each batch changes to Exported and it no longer appears in the pending status area. Your pending queue is cleaned up. You're done.

## **Still not working?**

Contact ServiceTitan Technical Support at [**go.servicetitan.com/ask**](https://go.servicetitan.com/ask) with:

- The batch number(s) you're trying to clear
- Whether the batch is currently Pending or Posted
- What happens when you select Bypass export
- Whether you use Journal Entries / auto-batching
- Which steps from this article you already tried

## **Want to learn more?**

[**Bypass exporting a batch to accounting software ›**](https://help.servicetitan.com/docs/bypass-exporting-a-batch-to-accounting-software) Full walkthrough of the bypass export action used to clear these batches.

[**Batch will not post or accept invoices ›**](https://help.servicetitan.com/docs/why-is-my-batch-failing-to-post) Troubleshoot a batch that fails when you try to post it.

[**Batch, post, and export transactions ›**](https://help.servicetitan.com/docs/batch-post-and-export-transactions) Overview of the full batch, post, and export workflow in Accounting.