diff --git a/src/wallet/sqlite.cpp b/src/wallet/sqlite.cpp
--- a/src/wallet/sqlite.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/sqlite.cpp
@@ -326,7 +326,8 @@
 }
 
 std::unique_ptr<DatabaseBatch> SQLiteDatabase::MakeBatch(bool flush_on_close) {
-    return nullptr;
+    // We ignore flush_on_close because we don't do manual flushing for SQLite
+    return std::make_unique<SQLiteBatch>(*this);
 }
 
 SQLiteBatch::SQLiteBatch(SQLiteDatabase &database) : m_database(database) {