You cannot. An administrator can delete an offline profile, but never a Vome User. Archive them instead.
This one surprises people, so it is worth understanding the reason rather than treating it as a missing feature.
1. Why can I not delete a Vome User?
Because the account is not yours. It is theirs.
A Vome User account is created by the person, not by your organization. That same account can be connected to several organizations at once, which is the whole point of Vome: someone can help at a food bank, a hospital and a school festival using one login and one record of their hours.
Your database holds a link to that account, not the account itself. If deleting a profile from your database deleted the account, you would be erasing that person's history at every other organization they belong to, along with their login. No single organization gets to make that decision on someone else's behalf.
So the account holder is the only person who can delete a Vome User account, and they do it from their own settings.
2. What can I delete, then?
Offline profiles, and only offline profiles.
An offline profile is a record your team created by hand for someone who is not on Vome, so nobody else depends on it. Because your organization created it, your organization can remove it.
- Go to your Database
- Select one or more offline profiles
- Click Actions > Delete profiles
The Delete profiles action only appears when your selection contains offline profiles, and it only ever deletes those. If you select a mix, the Vome Users in your selection are left alone.

Deleting an offline profile is permanent. It removes all of their past activity with it, including assigned opportunities, shifts, sequence records and form submissions. This cannot be undone, and our team cannot retrieve a deleted profile. If there is any chance you will want that history later, archive instead of deleting.
3. What should I do with a Vome User I no longer work with?
Archive them. It is the tool built for exactly this.
Archiving unassigns all of their opportunities, cancels their upcoming reservations, sets any Active or Paused sequence status to Inactive, unassigns them from your sites and removes them from your active list and all your custom views. Their history stays intact, and you can reactivate them at any time.

When you archive, take the extra ten seconds to leave a note and assign a profile tag such as "Requested removal" or "Do not contact". If the person ever asks why they are no longer receiving your opportunities, that note is your answer.
4. How does a Vome User delete their own account?
From their own settings, in a few clicks.
- They sign in to their Vome account
- They open their settings and go to Advanced
- They choose Delete my account and confirm with the code shown on screen
Deleting their account erases all of their saved profile information, opportunity and shift assignments, hours logged and everything else tied to their profile, at every organization they belong to. It cannot be undone. If someone only wants to stop hearing from your organization specifically, archiving on your side is the lighter and better answer. Their settings also let them unsubscribe from organization emails and from all Vome notifications without deleting anything.
5. What if I have a duplicate record for the same person?
That is a different problem with a different tool. Do not archive one of them and hope for the best.
Vome has a duplicate record screen that lets you merge two profiles for the same person, or remove the leftover one, so their hours and history end up on a single record. Reach it from your Database, and merge rather than delete wherever the two records both hold activity.
6. Is there any way to have a Vome User account removed?
Yes, with the person's involvement.
If a Vome User wants their account gone and cannot do it themselves, write to
support@vomevolunteer.zohodesk.com and copy the person on the message so they are aware and consenting. Include their full name and the email address on the account. Archive their profile in the meantime so your lists are accurate while the request is handled.
Summary
- Offline profiles can be deleted by an administrator. Vome Users cannot.
- A Vome User account belongs to the person and may be linked to other organizations, so only they can delete it.
- Deleting an offline profile is permanent and takes all of their history with it.
- Archiving is the correct action for a Vome User you no longer work with, and it is reversible.
- Duplicates should be merged on the duplicate record screen, not deleted or archived.
