Import guide
Walked is worth more the more history it has — the whole point is reading your past shifts back to you. If you've been tracking somewhere else, move it over first.
Nothing is written until you say so. Walked shows you exactly what it's about to add — how many shifts, which dates, what it already has — before it touches anything. And if it goes wrong, one tap takes the entire import back.
Almost all of them can. Details per app below.
Files, Downloads, Google Drive, iCloud — anywhere the file picker can see. If the old app only offers "share", share it to your own Files or Drive rather than to another app.
On a brand-new install it's on the first screen too — Already tracking somewhere? → Import my history.
It tells you how many shifts are new, how many you already have, and flags any date where the file and the app disagree about the money.
TipSee sends your backup by email — there is no download button. That is the step that stalls people, because you go looking for "export to file" and there isn't one. You email the backup to yourself, then open it from your inbox.
The purple crosshair, up next to the ?. That opens TipSee's full menu — it is not in the hamburger on the left.
Fourth row down, the blue database icon. Not "Remote Backup" — that one is TipSee's own cloud and does not give you a file.
Your own address — this is you sending your data to yourself. Ignore the Import Data section further down that page; that is for restoring into TipSee.
Save it to Files or Drive rather than opening it in another app, so Walked's file picker can see it. Then: Settings → Import from another app → Choose a file.
Walked reads TipSee's backup as it arrives. No converting, no renaming columns, no spreadsheet surgery first — open the file it emails you and Walked does the rest.
Written against TipSee as it was in September 2026. If yours looks different the app has been updated — tell us at [email protected] and we’ll fix this page.
Same shape as TipSee: ServerLife emails your data to you rather than saving a file. Three taps, then check your inbox.
The ••• at the end of the tab bar, past Schedule.
Second row down. Not "Import Data" directly underneath it — that one pulls data into ServerLife, which is the opposite of what you want here.
It pre-fills the email on your ServerLife account. Make sure it's one you can actually open on this phone.
Settings → Import from another app → Choose a file. Walked shows you what it's about to add before it writes anything.
Your totals will come out lower here, and that is not the import losing anything. The two apps mean different things by “take home”. Measured on a real export: ServerLife showed $2,446.55 for a month Walked reads as $2,311.34. Every cent of the difference is these three things:
Nothing is lost either way — every figure from the file is imported or written to the shift’s note. The app tells you which of these applied to your file when you import it.
If you were on ServerLife's free tier, your export won't separate cash from credit. Splitting those is one of their paid features, so the file carries a single total per shift. Walked keeps that total exactly as it is and tells you the split is missing rather than inventing one — your take-home, hourly rate and every average are still correct. In Walked, cash, credit and tip-out are free.
Look for Export, Backup, Download my data or Email a report — usually under settings or an account screen. Expect it to email you rather than save a file; both of the apps above work that way, and it is the step people give up on because they are hunting for a download button that does not exist.
Walked doesn't need the columns named its way. It reads the header row and takes what it recognises — anything it doesn't recognise is carried along untouched rather than dropped, so nothing in your file gets destroyed by importing it.
If your app truly can't export, don't retype years of history. Email [email protected] with the app's name — several of them have an export that's buried rather than absent, and if it genuinely doesn't have one that's worth us knowing.
Plenty of people track tips in Google Sheets or Excel, and that's a perfectly good record. Save it as CSV and import it. Only date really matters; everything else is optional and can be filled in later.
| Column | What it is |
|---|---|
| date | Required. YYYY-MM-DD — e.g. 2026-08-29. |
| cash | Cash tips for the night. |
| card | Card / credit tips. |
| tipout | What you tipped out. Subtracted, so enter it positive. |
| hours | Hours worked. Without it there's no hourly rate for that shift — the night still counts toward your totals. |
| start, end | HH:MM, 24-hour. If both are present Walked can work out the hours itself, including shifts that cross midnight. |
| where | The name of the bar or restaurant. Places you've never entered get created for you. |
| crew | How many were on that night. |
| sales | Your sales total, if you track it. |
| event | Free text — trivia, game day, wedding. |
| notes | Anything else. |
Column order doesn't matter. Extra columns are kept, not discarded.
Nothing bad. Walked matches what's already on your phone by date, hours and money, so importing the same file again adds nothing.
One thing it deliberately does not do: collapse two identical shifts on the same day into one. If you genuinely worked a double and both halves paid the same, that's two shifts and both are kept. Treating them as a duplicate would quietly delete half a night's money.
Email [email protected] with the app you're coming from. If you can attach the file, that's fastest — but say so first if you'd rather not send your earnings to a stranger, which is a completely reasonable position, and we'll work it out from a screenshot of the header row instead.