It should be an option to NOT delete Purchase Orders and Sales Orders when these documents have been completely shipped/received and invoiced. So much information and related data links are lost in the archive then it would be much preferable if they remained in the main Sales Order or Purchase Order list page with a status of "Complete" or similar.

The current process of pushing to the Archive and then deleting is unwelcome - the Archive becomes a hybrid of version control and audit trail and is pretty impossible to use for any meaningful purpose - e.g. there is no way to extract "last version" of each document. For the majority of customers the database overhead of having these in the main enquiry is negligible. They would then have the option to delete them (using the existing report jobs) after a time period of their choosing.

I know that this behavioud can be modified out of the software but we should be making these easy toggles available as standard