· George Dawoud

Introducing the Export Hub: All Your Data Exports in One Place

ChurchCRM Admin Dashboard with the Export entry in the Admin menu and the Backup button under System Info

Getting data into ChurchCRM has always been straightforward. Getting it back out — in the exact format you need, reliably, without hunting through menus — took more effort than it should.

ChurchCRM 7.1.0 fixes that with the Export Hub: a single page at /admin/export where every data export option lives.

What You Can Export

Member CSV

The most common export: a spreadsheet of your congregation with the fields you select. The Export Hub lets you choose exactly which columns to include — name, address, email, phone, classification, family information, custom fields — and downloads a clean CSV ready for mail merge, mailing labels, or import into another system.

From the hub, you can also save a column profile so you don’t have to reconfigure the same export every time.

ChMeetings Export Package

Migrating to or from ChMeetings? The Export Hub generates a formatted export package specifically for ChMeetings import — people, families, groups, and contributions in the format ChMeetings expects. This replaces the need to manually reformat a generic CSV export.

Database Backup

A full SQL dump of your ChurchCRM database, downloadable on demand. This is the backup you want before any upgrade, any major data change, or any time you want a snapshot of your church’s records.

The backup download includes a timestamp in the filename and is compressed for easy storage.

Scheduled Exports

In addition to on-demand downloads, the Export Hub supports scheduled exports. Configure an export to run automatically on a schedule (weekly, monthly, etc.) and have the file stored in a designated directory on your server — or sent as an email attachment.

Scheduled exports mean your off-site backup routine can be automated without requiring someone to log in and click a button.

Download History

Every export you run — on demand or scheduled — appears in the download history. You can see when each export ran, what it contained, and re-download a recent export if needed. History is retained for 90 days by default.

Finding the Export Hub

If you’re an administrator:

  1. Log in to ChurchCRM
  2. Go to Admin → Export (or navigate directly to /admin/export)

The page also links back to the Import page and to the documentation — so data management is consolidated in one part of the admin panel.


For full documentation on export options and column configuration, see Data Export in the user guide.

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