Answers.Body: <p>Commerce soft deletes payment methods instead of hard deletes them because even if a payment method is no longer in use, you still need to be able to have a reference to them for existing orders.</p>
  
  <p>You can "un-delete" the payment method by going into the <code>craft_commerce_paymentmethods</code> table in the database and changing the <code>isArchived</code> column from <code>1</code> back to <code>0</code>.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I was just playing around with my payment methods. I deleted them. Then I tried to re-add them with the same names and settings but I couldn't. "Name "Manual" has already been taken." </p>
  
  <p>Apparently they have been soft deleted? How do you reinstate a soft delete?</p>
  
Tags: <plugin-craftcommerce>
Title: Craft Commerce: Soft Delete on Payment Methods?
ThreadText: # Craft Commerce: Soft Delete on Payment Methods?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-07-26)
  
  I was just playing around with my payment methods. I deleted them. Then I tried to re-add them with the same names and settings but I couldn't. "Name "Manual" has already been taken."
  
  Apparently they have been soft deleted? How do you reinstate a soft delete?
  
  **Tags:** plugin-craftcommerce
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-07-26. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  Commerce soft deletes payment methods instead of hard deletes them because even if a payment method is no longer in use, you still need to be able to have a reference to them for existing orders.
  
  You can "un-delete" the payment method by going into the `craft_commerce_paymentmethods` table in the database and changing the `isArchived` column from `1` back to `0`.
  
  
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