# Import Your Bookings From Skedda

> Step-by-step guide to exporting your booking data from Skedda as CSV and importing it, including mapping spaces to venues and bookers to users.

Canonical: https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/help/import-bookings-from-skedda
Last updated: 2026-10-17

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Export your booking data from Skedda as CSV, then map your spaces and bookers across so your calendar and your regulars arrive intact.

By [Jordan Ellis](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/authors/jordan-ellis), Facility Operations Lead. Last updated October 17, 2026.

The Skedda importer takes the CSV that Skedda exports and turns it into venues, users, and bookings here. It is built for the export Skedda actually produces, so you do not need to reshape the file first.

Only organisation admins can run an import.

## 1. Export your data from Skedda

In Skedda, export or print your booking data as CSV. Export the widest date range you care about — past bookings give the importer enough history to suggest sensible operating hours and booking constraints for each venue, which saves a lot of manual setup later.

## 2. Upload the file

1. Open Import from Skedda in the dashboard sidebar
2. Upload the CSV
3. Review the preview — it shows how many bookings, spaces, and bookers were found

The importer groups related rows into logical bookings, so a single reservation split across rows in the export comes through as one booking here rather than several.

## 3. Map your spaces to venues

Every distinct space in the export is listed with a suggested match against your existing venues. Accept the suggestions that are right, correct the ones that are not, and create new venues for the spaces you have not set up yet.

This is the step worth slowing down on. A space mapped to the wrong venue puts real bookings on the wrong court, and untangling that afterwards is manual work.

## 4. Map your bookers to users

The same matching happens for the people who made the bookings. Match them onto existing users where you have them, and let the importer create the rest so historic bookings keep their owner.

## 5. Review and import

The final step summarises what is about to happen and lets the importer derive operating hours and booking constraints for new venues from the historical bookings it can see. Start the import and progress streams as it runs — large exports are processed in batches.

## After the import

- Spot-check a busy week in the calendar against the same week in Skedda
- Open each new venue and confirm the derived operating hours match your real ones
- Check booking durations and time increments on venues the importer created
- Only then enable your public booking page, so customers never see a half-migrated schedule

## Run the import once

Import in a single pass rather than uploading the same export repeatedly. Re-running an import with the same file can create duplicate bookings, and cleaning those up is slower than getting the mapping right the first time. If something looks wrong partway through, finish, check the calendar, and delete rather than re-importing over the top.

## FAQs

### How do I export my bookings from Skedda?

Use Skedda’s own export or print option for booking data, which produces a CSV. Export the widest date range you can — past bookings let the importer derive operating hours and booking constraints for each venue automatically.

### Will my recurring bookings come across?

Individual booking occurrences import as bookings. Recurring series are not recreated as live recurring patterns, so set up any ongoing series here after the import so future dates keep generating.

### Do my customers get emailed when I import?

No. Imported bookings are written straight into the calendar without triggering the confirmation and request emails that a new booking would send.

### Can I import from a system other than Skedda?

The importer is built specifically around Skedda’s CSV export. If you are coming from another platform, get in touch — we would rather look at your export than have you reformat it by hand.

### What if I run the import twice?

You can end up with duplicate bookings. Import once, check the calendar, and delete anything wrong rather than re-uploading the same file over the top.

## Related

- [Set Operating Hours and Booking Rules](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/help/set-operating-hours-and-booking-rules)
- [Getting Started: Set Up Your Facility](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/help/getting-started)