Whether you’re building new employee profiles or updating existing profiles, the employee import feature has several benefits that make maintaining your employee’s information easy.

Before you start

Prepare your CSV file with the following in mind:

1. You must have either an email address or a user ID for each contact you import. Otherwise, the contact will not land in the database.
2. Mind the data format; the default is UTF-8.
3. Include column headings.

Employee import template

A download import template file – click here

Import rules

• You can choose import mode: import new employees or update existing employee profiles,
• Based on the data from the file, the following are also automatically created: localize, departments, job positions, manager-subordinate relationship,
• If there is an error in the file (e.g. incomplete data in a mandatory column) the system will show the report with the list of errors and no data will be imported. In this case, you need to look into the report, correct the data and start the import all over again.
• You decide which group of permission is assigned to new employees,
• You decide which Onboarding workflow is assigned to new employees,
• You can automatically send “Welcome message” to new employees .

Formats are supported

• CSV
• XLS
• XLSX

Data descriptions (* is required data)

• *Login,
• ID – any string of characters and numbers, helpful in integration with SSO or other system for matching employees records,
• Type ID – enter the name in the cell: ID [options is no longer supported],
• *Firstname,
• *Lastname,
• Sex – gender; choose from: male, female, bi_gender, female_to_male, non_binary, male_to_female, trans_female or trans_male,
• Job position – the name of Job position, will automatically create such a record and assigning an employee to this position,
• Department – Name of Department, will automatically create such a record and assigning an employee to this department,
• Parent Department – Name of parent department; One of the earlier ones may be listed, or a new department name may be given. Will be assigned as the override to the given department name,
• *Branch(location) – Name of the branch; Branch has a timezone, country, manager of Branch. Some data is used in e.g. Time Off, Time tracking module,
• *Timezone – choose from the list available here,
• *Country,
• Organization – name of the company,
• Manager – e-mail address of other employee acting as direct manager. This person will be assigned as the supervisor,
• *E-mail – a unique e-mail address must be entered, will not import a record with a duplicate e-mail address,
• Mobile phone,
• Phone 1 –  landline number,
• Phone 2 – second landline number,
• Type of employment,
• Employment day – date format is only DD-MM-YYYY,
• Birthday – date of birthday; date format is only DD-MM-YYYY; a different date format will prevent this data from being imported (the employee record will be imported). The date in the app is only displayed as DD-MM. It is possible to disable the display of this information in the entire system, for all users,
• *Language interface – en_EN or pl_PL.
• Responsibility – the content of the ‘Responsibilities’ field visible in the employee’s profile.

Deafult data in imported employee profile

• Employment status: hired,
• Activity status: active.

The import report displays the following information:

• How many records have been imported,
  or
• How many records are incorrect with detailed information on every error.

Let’s begin

1. Go to Employees tab on the left menu.
2. Select button “Add employees” and choose Import from file.
3. Click Upload file and select and upload file.
4. Choose mode: import new record OR update exists.
5. After your file has been uploaded, match the fields that contain employee data.
6. Click Import.
7. Review your employee import report if necessary.