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The Data Export page in Commander Finance hands you a portable copy of everything you have entered into the app—your budget, accounts, transactions, and merchants—as CSV files you can open in any spreadsheet. Use it to keep your own backup, to move numbers into a tool Commander does not yet integrate with, or to take your data with you if you decide to leave.

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Opening the Data Export page

1

Open Settings

Tap or click More in the sidebar, then Settings.
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Pick Data Export

Under the Account section, choose Data Export. The subtitle reads “Download a copy of your budget, accounts, transactions, and merchants” so it is easy to find.
The page has two sections—Targeted Export and Full Export—stacked top to bottom. Targeted Export pulls a single table at a time. Full Export bundles every table into one zip archive.

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What gets exported

Both sections write the same four tables; the only difference is whether you take them one at a time or all at once. Every file is CSV, with one row per record.
  • Transactions—every transaction in your account, with amount, date, status (settled or pending), and the names of the linked account, budget line, and merchant where set.
  • Merchants—every merchant you have created or that Commander has created for you, with the business name and the default budget line where one is assigned.
  • Accounts—every manual and synced account, with the account type, color, initial value, and current and available balances.
  • Budget lines—every budget line, with its color, mode-specific configuration, and current activity total.
Cross-references between tables use names, not internal IDs, so a transaction’s “Account” column matches the “Name” column of the accounts file. That keeps the files readable on their own and lets you join them in a spreadsheet without translating IDs.

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Targeted Export

Use Targeted Export when you only need one of the four tables—for example, to hand a colleague a clean transactions CSV without sending them your account list.
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Pick a table

Use the dropdown to pick Transactions, Merchants, Accounts, or Budget Lines. Tables that have no rows yet are tagged (none yet) in the dropdown so you know there is nothing to export.
2

Check the count

The line below the dropdown summarises how many rows the file will contain, so you can confirm you picked the right table before downloading.
3

Download

Click Download CSV. Your browser saves a single CSV file named after the table. The button is disabled when the selected table has no rows.
Single-table exports skip the confirmation step by design, so a one-click download is all that stands between you and the file.

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Full Export

Full Export packages all four tables into one zip archive in a single click. Use it for backups or whenever you want a complete snapshot of your data.
1

Review the summary

Below the Download all my data button, Commander shows a one-line summary of what your export will contain—the number of transactions, merchants, accounts, and budget lines. If your account has no data at all, the summary says so instead.
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Start the export

Click Download all my data. The button label changes to Preparing your export… while Commander assembles the archive, and re-enables once the download starts or an error appears.
3

Confirm a large export, if asked

If your transaction count is unusually large, Commander first shows a Large export detected advisory warning that preparing a big archive can use a lot of memory on the device you are using. Click Continue to proceed or Cancel to back out.
The archive is a single zip file containing the same four CSV files you would get from Targeted Export. Extract it with the built-in zip tool on macOS, Windows, iOS, or Android and open each CSV file in your spreadsheet of choice.

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If something goes wrong

If Commander cannot fetch some of your data, the section shows a brief message asking you to try again, and the download button re-enables so you can retry. If a retry does not help, reach out to the Commander team using the Support link at the top of this site.