Meinkauf,

In my case, I have far, far more Products than I do Accounts.  I've tried to re-name/re-use inactive Products whenever I can, but it's a losing battle.

As one post mentioned, there's a period of orienting oneself to the software when starting out.  We're not all accountants that are stamping out accounts for one business after another.  And especially coming from other software, things are done differently enough in QBO that it often takes a fair amount of trial and error to get things right.  

I learned early on to avoid making a Product an Inventory one if I wanted to be able to ever change it, but not to be able to fully delete non-inventory and service products that I've never used is just ridiculous.  I can understand that once a product is intertwined with other entries, it would be risky to try to remove it. But if there is just an entry (a product) sitting there, not ever having been used for anything, it seems ridiculous that removing it would take down the rest of the system.  

Or is QBO saying that one a Product entry is even linked to an account (as it has to be to even be able to save it), it is irretrievably bound to that account?  I'd like to hear the QBO perspective on this.  Or is it simply that with over 4 years of users requesting this, it just isn't as important as adding new, less-than-useful,  features.