diff --git a/channeldb/payment_control_test.go b/channeldb/payment_control_test.go
index 7751ea367..fb965bb32 100644
--- a/channeldb/payment_control_test.go
+++ b/channeldb/payment_control_test.go
@@ -435,9 +435,9 @@ func TestPaymentControlDeleteNonInFlight(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Delete all failed payments.
-	if err := db.DeletePayments(true, false); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
+	numPayments, err := db.DeletePayments(true, false)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.EqualValues(t, 1, numPayments)
 
 	// This should leave the succeeded and in-flight payments.
 	dbPayments, err := db.FetchPayments()
@@ -471,9 +471,9 @@ func TestPaymentControlDeleteNonInFlight(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Now delete all payments except in-flight.
-	if err := db.DeletePayments(false, false); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
+	numPayments, err = db.DeletePayments(false, false)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.EqualValues(t, 2, numPayments)
 
 	// This should leave the in-flight payment.
 	dbPayments, err = db.FetchPayments()
@@ -536,14 +536,18 @@ func TestPaymentControlDeletePayments(t *testing.T) {
 	assertPayments(t, db, payments)
 
 	// Delete HTLC attempts for failed payments only.
-	require.NoError(t, db.DeletePayments(true, true))
+	numPayments, err := db.DeletePayments(true, true)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.EqualValues(t, 0, numPayments)
 
 	// The failed payment is the only altered one.
 	payments[0].htlcs = 0
 	assertPayments(t, db, payments)
 
 	// Delete failed attempts for all payments.
-	require.NoError(t, db.DeletePayments(false, true))
+	numPayments, err = db.DeletePayments(false, true)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.EqualValues(t, 0, numPayments)
 
 	// The failed attempts should be deleted, except for the in-flight
 	// payment, that shouldn't be altered until it has completed.
@@ -551,12 +555,16 @@ func TestPaymentControlDeletePayments(t *testing.T) {
 	assertPayments(t, db, payments)
 
 	// Now delete all failed payments.
-	require.NoError(t, db.DeletePayments(true, false))
+	numPayments, err = db.DeletePayments(true, false)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.EqualValues(t, 1, numPayments)
 
 	assertPayments(t, db, payments[1:])
 
 	// Finally delete all completed payments.
-	require.NoError(t, db.DeletePayments(false, false))
+	numPayments, err = db.DeletePayments(false, false)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.EqualValues(t, 1, numPayments)
 
 	assertPayments(t, db, payments[2:])
 }
diff --git a/channeldb/payments.go b/channeldb/payments.go
index 0ccb75774..9d70cfd95 100644
--- a/channeldb/payments.go
+++ b/channeldb/payments.go
@@ -826,10 +826,12 @@ func (d *DB) DeletePayment(paymentHash lntypes.Hash,
 
 // DeletePayments deletes all completed and failed payments from the DB. If
 // failedOnly is set, only failed payments will be considered for deletion. If
-// failedHtlsOnly is set, the payment itself won't be deleted, only failed HTLC
-// attempts.
-func (d *DB) DeletePayments(failedOnly, failedHtlcsOnly bool) error {
-	return kvdb.Update(d, func(tx kvdb.RwTx) error {
+// failedHtlcsOnly is set, the payment itself won't be deleted, only failed HTLC
+// attempts. The method returns the number of deleted payments, which is always
+// 0 if failedHtlcsOnly is set.
+func (d *DB) DeletePayments(failedOnly, failedHtlcsOnly bool) (int, error) {
+	var numPayments int
+	err := kvdb.Update(d, func(tx kvdb.RwTx) error {
 		payments := tx.ReadWriteBucket(paymentsRootBucket)
 		if payments == nil {
 			return nil
@@ -906,6 +908,7 @@ func (d *DB) DeletePayments(failedOnly, failedHtlcsOnly bool) error {
 			}
 
 			deleteIndexes = append(deleteIndexes, seqNrs...)
+			numPayments++
 			return nil
 		})
 		if err != nil {
@@ -956,7 +959,14 @@ func (d *DB) DeletePayments(failedOnly, failedHtlcsOnly bool) error {
 		}
 
 		return nil
-	}, func() {})
+	}, func() {
+		numPayments = 0
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	return numPayments, nil
 }
 
 // fetchSequenceNumbers fetches all the sequence numbers associated with a
diff --git a/rpcserver.go b/rpcserver.go
index 76aa057bf..ddd31224e 100644
--- a/rpcserver.go
+++ b/rpcserver.go
@@ -7319,7 +7319,7 @@ func (r *rpcServer) DeleteAllPayments(ctx context.Context,
 		"failed_htlcs_only=%v", req.FailedPaymentsOnly,
 		req.FailedHtlcsOnly)
 
-	err := r.server.miscDB.DeletePayments(
+	_, err := r.server.miscDB.DeletePayments(
 		req.FailedPaymentsOnly, req.FailedHtlcsOnly,
 	)
 	if err != nil {