Back Up Your Data

Updated January 31, 2023 16:40

Before deleting a Location, Roles, or making any major structural changes to your account, you should back up your 7shifts data.

❗️Deleting any Locations, Departments, or Roles may result in the loss of important data.

If you are unsure, please contact support@7shifts.com before proceeding.

Below is the data that you can back up from 7shifts:

Employee Data

Schedule Data

Time Off Data

Worked Hours Data

Employee Data

Here are the steps to export your Employee Data:

1. Go to More > Employees.

2. Click on the 'Tools' dropdown on the right side.

3. Click on 'Export employees (CSV).

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⚠️ This will only Export information of active Employees.

Schedule Data

Schedule Data can be backed up either per week or sorted per employee.

Here are the steps to export your Schedule Data per week:

1. Go to the Schedules page by clicking on the 'calendar' icon at the top.

2. Click on the 'Tools' icon on the right side, and select 'Download.'

3. Repeat step 2 for every weekly schedule that needs to be downloaded.

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⚠️ The above method will import Schedule Data for inactive Employees as well.

Here are the steps to export your Schedule Data sorted per employee (along with scheduled wages):

1. Click on 'Reports' at the top of the page.

2. Click on the 'Scheduled Hours and Wages Summary' tab.

3. Choose the date range to back up the Schedule Data for.

4. If necessary, select a specific Location, Department or a Role.

5. Select 'CSV (download)' or 'Excel (download)' in the 'View as' dropdown and click 'Get Report.'

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⚠️ The above method will import Schedule Data for inactive Employees as well.

Time Off Data

Here are the steps to back up your employees' Time Off Data:

1. Click on 'Reports' at the top of the page.

2. Click on the 'Time Off' tab.

3. Choose the date range to back up the Time Off Data for.

4. Select 'CSV (Download)' in the 'View as' dropdown and click 'Get Report.'

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⚠️ The above method will not import Time Off Data for inactive Employees. You may want to reactivate Employees before generating this report, and then mark them as inactive again once you have generated the report.

Worked Hours Data

Worked Hours Data can only be backed up if you use 7punches.

Here are the steps to back up your employees' Worked Hours Data:

1. Click on 'Reports' at the top of the page.

2. Click on the 'Worked Hours and Wages Summary' tab.

3. Choose the date range to back up the Worked Hours Data for.

4. If necessary, select a specific Location, Department or a Role.

5. Select 'CSV (download)' or 'Excel (download)' in the 'View as' dropdown and click 'Get Report.'

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⚠️ The above method will not import Worked Hours Data for inactive Employees. You may want to reactivate employees before generating this report, and then mark them as inactive again once you have generated the report.