--- title: "Bring your data in, and take it out | SalexHub" description: "Import CSV and Excel files up to 512 MB, several kinds of record in one file, and undo it. Export any list, and back up everything as one ZIP." url: "https://salexhub.com/news/import-and-export" kind: "Announcement" published: "2026-10-08" release: "Bring your data in, and take it out" --- # Bring your data in, and take it out Import from whatever you run today, see what will happen before anything is written, and undo it if you change your mind. Export what you need, or take a copy of everything. Shipped 2026-10-08. [Read the release in the changelog](https://salexhub.com/changelog#2026-10-08-bring-your-data-in-and-take-it-out). ## At a glance - Shipped: October 8, 2026 - Files: CSV, TSV, TXT, XLSX and XLS, up to 512 MB each, the same on every plan. Arabic and Cyrillic Windows files are read. - One import: Up to 1,000,000 rows. A file that does not fit your plan's room for records is refused whole, not cut part way. - Kinds: Companies, contacts, deals and activities in one file, linked by a key. - Before the write: The screen says how many rows are ready, and that nothing has been written yet. - Out: Any list as CSV or XLSX, and all your data as one ZIP of CSV files. - Undo: One action takes back a whole import. ## Start from the file you have Press Import in any list, choose a file, and tell SalexHub where each column lands. The file's first row holds the column headers, and the headers other CRMs write are understood as they are: Amount becomes a deal's value, Close date its expected close date, Phone number a contact's phone. The product reads the encodings Excel writes, including Windows files in Arabic and Cyrillic, and you can choose another if it guesses wrong. A person is matched as the owner by their email address or by their name as Settings shows it. ## Several kinds in one file One row can be a company, its contact, their deal and an activity on them. For each kind you choose Create and update, Create only or Update only. A column can name another record by its key, so companies, contacts and deals from different files land linked to each other. A row whose company is refused still imports its contact, and the error file says which row and why. ## See it before it is written Before the write, the screen says Ready to import and the number of rows, and that nothing has been written yet. The mapping of an earlier import can be reused, and you can create a new property while you map. Rows that look like someone you already have are yours to decide: create them and mark them as possible duplicates, leave them out, or do not import them and list them for you. Possible duplicates are only marked. Merging them is a separate action. ## Big files run in the background A large file imports in the background. You can close the page, and the bell says when it is done. If you cancel, the rows already imported stay. Every run is kept under Settings, in Imports, and an import that had rows it could not take offers an error file of them, kept for 30 days. ## Take it out Export any list as CSV or XLSX. A property you cannot view is left out of your export, and the export says which. Each file stays ready to download again for 30 days. An administrator can back up everything as one ZIP: a CSV file for each record type, the links between records and a note of anything left out. It is prepared in the background, after the administrator confirms it is them, and an email carries the link when it is ready. ## Take it back Undo import puts an import right with one action. Records it added go to the recycle bin, and records it updated get their earlier values back. A record someone changed after the import is left as it is. A large batch is undone in the background, with its progress shown, and the screen says if some records are still to take back. Import works from files. There is no live connection to another CRM yet. The picture at the top of the page: The import screen, Where each column lands: two columns of a file matched to properties of SalexHub, a third marked Skip this column, and at the bottom the line Ready to import 1,240 rows, Nothing has been written yet, with the Import button. --- The same page for people: https://salexhub.com/news/import-and-export. Index of this site for agents: https://salexhub.com/llms.txt