Importer

You can import the following CSV data:

• Timesheet
• Clockify (Timesheet)
• Toggl Track (Timesheet)
• Project
• Customer
• Grandtotal (Customer)
• Kimai v1

Supported formats: CSV and JSON

Customer

Supported attributes (field names are case-insensitive):

Customer attribute	Supported field names
Name	project, projectname, project name, project-name, name
Account	number, account, customer number, customer account
Company name	company, company name, company-name
Description	description, comment
E-Mail	email, e-mail, e mail
Country	country
Vat-ID	vat, vat-id, vat id, tax-id, tax id
Address	address
Contact	contact
Currency	currency
Timezone	timezone
Phone	phone
Mobile	mobile
Fax	fax
Homepage	homepage
Color	color
Budget	budget
Time budget	time budget, time-budget
Visible	visible
Meta fields	meta.xxx

Example

A minimum CSV file (using semicolon as delimiter):

Name;Company
Acme,Acme university Ltd.

A multi column-example:

Name,Company,Number,Comment,Phone,Timezone,Meta.XYZ
Acme,Acme university Ltd.,12367800,A longer comment to talk about the project,0011234567890,Europe/Berlin,hello foo 123

Projects

Supported attributes (field names are case-insensitive):

Project attribute	Supported field names
Name	project, projectname, project name, project-name, name
Customer name	customer, customername, customer-name, customer name
Description	description, comment
Order number	ordernumber, order-number, order number
Order date	orderdate, order-date, order date
Color	color
Budget	budget
Time budget	time budget, time-budget
Visible	visible
Meta fields	meta.xxx

Example

A minimum CSV example file (using semicolon as delimiter):

Name;Customer
Test project;Test customer

A multi column-example:

Name,Customer,Comment,OrderNumber,OrderDate,Meta.XYZ
My great project,Acme university,A longer comment to talk about the project,1234567890,2019-08-29,hello foo 123

Timesheets

This will import timesheets and create these elements on the fly:

• missing customer
• missing projects
• missing activities

Users need to exist before (mainly because the user timezone setting will be used to import the timesheets).

Example

"Date","From","To","Duration","Rate","User","Customer","Project","Activity","Description","Exported","Tags","Hourly rate","Fixed rate"
"2020-05-04","15:50","17:51","7260","231.92","user@example.com","Customer LLC","My project", "Testing","some work has been done","0","foo,bar","115.00","0"

• Date: format Y-m-d
• From and To: should be given in 24h format
• Duration: in seconds
• Rate: A floating number of the records rate (optional, if you don’t set the value it will be calculated)
• Hourly Rate: A floating number for the hourly rate (optional, if you don’t set the value it will be calculated)
• Fixed Rate: A floating number for the fixed rate of this record (optional, you can skip this column)
• Customer, Project and Activity: will be matched by name
• User: will be matched by username or email
• Exported: can be 0 or 1 (0 = new, 1 = exported)
• Tags: comma separated list of tag names

Customer from Grandtotal

There is a plugin for Mac invoicing software Grandtotal, which adds support for Kimai.

In case your leading system for customers is Grandtotal, you can import customers from a Grandtotal CSV export into Kimai. Grandtotal calls CSV exports Numbers in the export screen.

Attention: Grandtotal exports its data with column names in the UI language (just like Kimai). Kimai only supports imports for GT exports from the languages english and german, so you might have to change it in Settings / Languages / User interface.

Permissions

Permission Name	Description
importer	access the administration screen to import CSV files

By default, these are assigned to each user with the role ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN.