I accidentally deleted the Cost of Goods Sold in my Chart of Accounts. When I went to recreate it, the detail no longer includes a general COGS option. How do I re-add the top-level COGS detail?

Luckily, you cannot delete account in new QuickBooks Online. You can make it inactive only.

To make it active again:

Go the Chart of Accounts (Company Gear (upper right corner) > Lists > Chart of Accounts
Include Active checkbox (see attached screenshot photo for reference)
Chart of Accounts page will refresh itself
Scroll down the page and look for “Cost of Good Sold (deleted)”
Highlight it (click once, not double click)
Select “Edit” button
New Account page will open
Remove the check mark from the “Inactive” box at the bottom left corner of the Account page
Save

Note: Now, you will also need to DELETE (make it inactive) another Cost of Goods Sold account you created

Include Inactive

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July 31, 2014

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