Data Export
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Data Export

Download everything your organisation owns as one structured JSON file, any time. No lock-in.

2 min read · Updated July 2026 · Expertini Editorial

An ATS holds some of the most valuable data a company owns: every job it has run, every candidate it has met, every score, interview, and offer. Too many systems make that data easy to put in and painful to get out. Expertini ATS takes the opposite position. The Data Export app gives any organisation a one-click download of everything it owns — jobs, candidates with extracted CV text, applications with their scores, interviews, offers, clients, and assessments — as a single structured JSON file.

The gap this closes is quiet vendor lock-in: the moment you realise leaving, auditing, or backing up would mean weeks of copy-paste. With a complete export always one click away, you can archive on your own schedule, feed your data warehouse, satisfy a due-diligence request, or simply verify what the system holds. It is included in every subscription — no export fee, no ticket to support, no waiting period. See pricing for plan details; the export works the same on all of them.

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01Everything, in one structured file

The export is not a lossy CSV of one table — it is your organisation's full record set in a single JSON document: jobs with their descriptions and settings, candidates including the extracted text of their CVs, applications with stage history and scores, scheduled interviews, offers, client records, and assessment results.

JSON keeps structure intact, so relationships survive: an application still points at its job and candidate, an interview at its application. That makes the file genuinely useful for analysis and re-import elsewhere, not just a compliance checkbox.

02Practical uses beyond leaving

Most teams who export never leave. They use the file for periodic off-platform backups, GDPR and audit responses, board reporting, or loading hiring data into BI tooling alongside the live dashboards in the ATS. Agencies use it to hand a client a complete record of a completed engagement, alongside the client CRM view they work from daily.

03Ownership as a design principle

Every export is scoped strictly to your organisation — multi-tenant isolation means you get everything you own and nothing anyone else does. There is no throttling, no partial "contact us for the rest" tier, and no penalty for exporting often. Data portability is a feature of the product, not a negotiation at contract end.

Engineering notes

Platform architecture & operations

A1Connection architecture

The connection model for this integration is stated honestly on its card: where a public API exists it is used with your own account and consent, and where a vendor requires a partner agreement the page says so instead of showing a Connect button that cannot work.

Once available, credentials follow the platform standard: encrypted at rest, presence-flag display, immediate removal on disconnect.

A2Write semantics and data flow

Every data movement is an explicit action with a logged result. Writes happen on your click — or automatically only where you enabled a rule (auto-push on hire is off by default, per-provider). Reads — imports of people, accounts, or files — run when you press Import, deduplicate against what you already have (clients by name, people by email), skip rather than overwrite, and report created-versus-skipped honestly, which is why re-running any import is safe by design.

Each action writes a row to the app-activity journal (ats_app_activity): what ran, when, for which record, and the outcome — including the vendor's own error text verbatim when something fails. Usage reporting inside the ATS aggregates that same journal, so integration reporting and integration reality cannot diverge.

Anything that leaves the request path — notification fan-out, webhook delivery, activity journalling, mail — runs in fire-and-forget background threads. A slow external endpoint can never make the interface hang, and a failed side effect is logged rather than silently retried into inconsistency.

A3Operational considerations

Connections are organisation-level and gated to owner and admin roles; recruiters use the features a connection powers but cannot connect, disconnect, or reconfigure. Disconnecting removes stored credentials immediately and stops the dependent features visibly, not silently. Data already imported stays yours and editable.

Imported people arrive marked as imported with conservative privacy defaults — no consent is assumed for anyone who never filled in your application form, and retention defaults apply. Everything written is yours to take: CSV exports and the Data Export app cover the same stores the product itself reads. The exit is as open as the entrance — by design, not concession.

A4Placement in the integration topology

This integration is live in the registry today. One connection per provider unlocks every feature it powers, and the topology grid below shows the neighbouring connectors in the same capability area — statuses come from the same registry that drives the in-app hub, so this page can never claim more than the product does. For anything the catalogue does not cover, Webhooks and Zapier are the generic, documented escape hatch.

Dependency map

Connection typestated per-vendor on the card
Secrets at restencrypted; UI shows presence flags, never values
Action journalats_app_activity — one row per action, vendor errors verbatim
Auto-push rulesoff by default, per-provider, every run logged
Registry statuslive

Interface blueprint

Structural schematic of the surface — panels, hierarchy, and interaction affordances. A contract, not a screenshot.
Connection card
● connected — presence flag
scopes: minimum required disconnect
Actions
push — explicit clickimport — deduplicated
Activity journal
Fig. 1 — Data Export: structural interface schematic. Panels and states are the contract; data shown is placeholder.

Interaction flow — states, validations, feedback

Every state below is enforced server-side; the interface reports it, it doesn't decide it.
Connectowner/admin clicks Connect on the Connectors page
Vendor consentthe vendor's own screen lists the exact scopes
Token exchangeserver-side callback; secrets never touch the browser
Connectedencrypted store; card flips with presence flag
Explicit actionspush / import / schedule — each one journalled
Consent denied → the vendor's error code surfaces in a toast, namedPlatform keys missing → honest setup pointer, not a silent bounceToken expired → automatic refresh at the chokepointRefresh rejected → visible reconnect prompt, features never break silentlyPlan below minimum → lock card names the exact plan
Fig. 2 — interaction flow: navy = states, gold = server-enforced gates, green = confirmed outcomes; tags list the edge cases and their feedback.

Frequently asked questions

What exactly is included in the export?
Jobs, candidates with CV text, applications with scores and stage history, interviews, offers, clients, and assessments — the complete data set your organisation owns, in one structured JSON file.
How often can I export?
As often as you like. Many teams schedule a routine monthly download as an off-platform backup. There is no rate limit designed to discourage you and no fee per export.
Can I use the export to move to another system?
Yes. JSON is the most widely accepted interchange format, and because relationships between records are preserved, another system — or a script — can reconstruct your pipeline history.
Does exporting affect my live data?
No. The export is read-only. Your jobs, candidates, and pipelines are untouched; you simply receive a snapshot of the moment you clicked download.

At a glance

  • One-click full-organisation JSON download
  • Includes CV text, scores, and stage history
  • Relationships between records preserved
  • No export fees, limits, or support tickets
  • Ideal for backups, audits, and BI pipelines
  • Strictly scoped to your own organisation

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