Import & Export

Exporting Data

Go to Settings → Import & Export and check the boxes for what you want to include:

• Missionaries & members — all missionary records and family members.
• Organizations — all mission organization records.
• Church Info — your church profile data.
• Profile Photos — downloads and includes all uploaded photos.
• Prayer Letters — includes all uploaded prayer letter PDFs.
• Video Updates — includes locally uploaded video files.

A data-only export downloads as a JSON file. Any media selection produces a ZIP file containing the JSON plus all selected files.

For a spreadsheet, choose Export CSV instead: it downloads your missionaries as a CSV file with the same columns as the example CSV in the Import panel, so it opens in Excel or Google Sheets and can be imported back without changes. Photos, letters and videos are not included in a CSV; use the ZIP export for those.

Importing Data

Upload a JSON export file from a previous export, the ZIP from a full export, or a CSV file for bulk missionary import. The importer shows a preview of what will be added or updated before making any changes — review carefully before confirming. Blank cells in number columns such as birth_year or support_percentage are simply left empty. If an import fails, nothing is changed and the message names the row and field that caused it.

When you upload an export ZIP, the photos, prayer letters and videos inside it are restored as well: after the records are written, the media files are uploaded back to their missionaries. This is the way to bring a church's content back from an export you kept, or to move it between accounts. Restored media counts toward your storage like any other upload.