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You can export your data from inFlow Inventory so that it can be accessed in other programs such as Microsoft Excel. inFlow allows you to export your Sales Order, Purchase Order, Product, Customer, Vendor and Inventory data. Deactivated data will not be exported. If you also wish to export these entities, you should reactivate them first in inFlow.

Exporting the Product type will export the product information like its name, description, price, etc. Exporting the Inventory type will export the information about how much stock you have for each product and where it is stored. This is split into two since inFlow allows you to keep inventory for a given product in multiple places.

Exporting Sales and Purchase orders will export the main contents of the order, but not the order processing information like how much has been shipped or received. This will export all orders that have not yet been cancelled.

To export your data:

1. From the inFlow Menu button, select the General menu and click Export Data.
2. Under Data Type, select the type of entities to export.
3. Click Browse and select a location and file name in which to save the exported data.
4. Click Next to export your data.

The data will be exported in the widely used CSV (Comma Separated Value) format, which can be opened by Microsoft Excel and any other text editing programs. Unfortunately, Excel does not currently support Unicode in CSV format. Therefore, if you work with international languages, you will need to use another program to handle the exported data from inFlow.

Exporting Custom Documents

inFlow will also allow you to export previously imported custom document templates from the system directly.  Simply go to Main Menu > Settings > Print Settings and select the Custom Docs icon on the left then choose the appropriate template and click "Export".