diff --git a/app/Models/Bill.php b/app/Models/Bill.php
index 8659be7749..91a5600200 100644
--- a/app/Models/Bill.php
+++ b/app/Models/Bill.php
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ use Watson\Validating\ValidatingTrait;
 class Bill extends Model
 {
 
-    use ValidatingTrait;
+    use SoftDeletes, ValidatingTrait;
     /**
      * The attributes that should be casted to native types.
      *
diff --git a/app/Validation/FireflyValidator.php b/app/Validation/FireflyValidator.php
index 62f6747123..ef16f8787b 100644
--- a/app/Validation/FireflyValidator.php
+++ b/app/Validation/FireflyValidator.php
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ class FireflyValidator extends Validator
         $exclude = $parameters[2] ?? 0;
 
         // get entries from table
-        $set = DB::table($table)->where('user_id', auth()->user()->id)
+        $set = DB::table($table)->where('user_id', auth()->user()->id)->whereNull('deleted_at')
                  ->where('id', '!=', $exclude)->get([$field]);
 
         foreach ($set as $entry) {