Your data comes with you
You export a CSV or Excel file from your current program, upload it to MetronHR and see every row individually before anything is taken over. People, personal data, hours and absences come across, and remaining holiday and the overtime balance as an opening value. For a team under thirty people that is a matter of one to two hours.
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Switching in three steps
At deinem bisherigen Programm export
- Almost every program hands out hours, absences and personal data as CSV or Excel, usually under reports or analytics
- Every comparison page states the documented route for that particular provider, with a source and a retrieval date
Load the template and map the columns
The template comes as Excel and as CSV, with a second sheet that states for every column whether it is required, its format, an example and the permitted values. If your file's header row matches, the mapping falls away entirely. Otherwise the assistant proposes the mapping and marks everything that did not match word for word.
Check, then take it over
The dry run is mandatory and writes nothing. It shows for every row whether it will be created, changed, skipped or rejected, naming the column and the value behind the finding. Only the second click takes it over, in one transaction. The default is "create new ones only", and an empty cell never changes a value that has been maintained.
Comes with you
- People, with staff number, work address and employment contract
- Remaining holiday and the overtime balance as an opening value per person
- Departments, clients, services and projects
- Time entries and absences for the current year
- Public holidays, including regions that differ
Does not come with you
- Files from the old personnel file, they are uploaded again
- The history of an hours account, MetronHR starts from the opening value
Before anything is applied, a dry run shows you what will be created and what will change. Afterwards you can undo the import for three days; anything edited or used in the meantime stays as it is. The default is "create new ones only", so a second round of the same file is rejected rather than creating duplicates. And not a single invitation email goes out: imported people appear as "not yet invited" in the list, and you decide about inviting them afterwards.
How your current provider gets the data out
For these 20 providers the comparison page says how you get the file, each with a source and a retrieval date. Where a contract sets the moment, the deadline is stated with it.
- From askDANTE move
- From awork move
- From Clockify and Toggl Track move
- From clockin move
- From Clockodo move
- From Crewmeister move
- From Factorial move
- From HRworks move
- From Kenjo move
- From MEP24 move
- From Ordio move
- From Papershift move
- From Personio move
- From Planday move
- From Planerio move
- From Shiftbase move
- From Timebutler move
- From TimeTac move
- From timr move
- From ZEP move
Your provider is missing? The import in MetronHR reads any CSV or Excel file, whichever program it came from. How MetronHR stands against the individual providers is shown by the comparison of time tracking providers, and what it costs is on the pricing page.
Bring your data with you
Try it free for 14 days, no credit card. The import is open to you from day one.
- No credit card required
- Ready quickly
- Cancel monthly
- Full access to every feature
CSV and Excel, up to 20,000 rows per file