Title: Automated import/export
Last modified: March 12, 2017

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# Automated import/export

 *  Resolved [Moogie17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moogie17/)
 * (@moogie17)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-importexport/)
 * Hi – this is a pre-sales question!
 * I see it’s possible to import and export user data for this plugin, but is there
   any way to automate it? We need to allow users to edit their data online, and
   automatically export this (daily) to a specified location on the server for our
   offline system to access. We also need to be able to do the reverse, with an 
   automated upload from our end which then is imported on WP at a scheduled time.
   Can this be done with your plugin?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Contributor [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
 * (@etoilewebdesign)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-importexport/#post-8909330)
 * Hi Moogie,
 * There’s no option in the plugin to do scheduled automatic exports. You could 
   probably program some kind of cron job to run this automatically, but, seeing
   as this isn’t something we’ve tried or tested, we wouldn’t really be able to 
   offer any specific guidance on how to do so.
 *  Thread Starter [Moogie17](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moogie17/)
 * (@moogie17)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-importexport/#post-8915873)
 * Thank you for the swift response. I’ll have to look into that.
 * On another note, when importing users, what format does the password need to 
   be in? md5 hashed? When importing, does it just add all the entries as new users?
   Or does it update any which already exist, add any that don’t exist and remove(?)
   any that are not in the import? This is the sort of functionality we need, as
   we will not be allowing users to register on the site but rather setting them
   up and importing them ourselves.
 *  Plugin Contributor [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
 * (@etoilewebdesign)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-importexport/#post-8917646)
 * Hi Moogie,
 * The password will be permanently encrypted on import. So you can put the actual
   password in the spreadsheet.
 * All users in the spreadsheet will be added as new users. It doesn’t update existing
   ones. To do this, you’d want to delete the old user first and then import the
   spreadsheet with the updated information. It will certainly not remove any users
   that aren’t in the spreadsheet.

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