Which of Jibble's two exports do you actually need?
Jibble has two separate exports that are easy to confuse. The timesheet export is payroll-shaped: payroll hours, regular hours, overtime, paid time off and billable amounts. The tracked time report is activity-shaped: hours broken down by activity, project and client. Both come as CSV or XLS, and both are available on every plan, including the free one. The restriction is role rather than price, since exports are available to owners, admins and managers only. Checked against Jibble's help centre on 14 August 2026.
Which of Jibble's two exports do you want?
Jibble's help centre documents these separately and never compares them, which is why people export the wrong one first. They overlap in the hours they contain and differ in everything built on top.
| Timesheet export | Tracked time report export | |
|---|---|---|
| Answers | What do we pay people | Where did the time go |
| Default file | Team timesheet summary | Team tracked time summary |
| Headline fields | Payroll hours, regular hours, overtime, paid time off, total billable amounts | Hours by activity, project and client, with total billable amounts |
| Formats | CSV or XLS | CSV or XLS |
| Who can run it | Owners, admins, managers, all plans | Owners, admins, managers, all plans |
If you are running payroll, take the timesheet export. If you are billing a client or working out which project consumed the month, take the tracked time report. If you are leaving Jibble and want everything, you need both, because neither is a superset of the other.
What is inside the timesheet export?
The team timesheet summary is what you get by default, and you can add more to the file. Jibble offers the timesheets list and the time entries list as single tabs, and timesheets per member as individual tabs in either a summary or a detailed form. That is five distinct shapes in one export dialog, and they carry different fields.
| Shape | What it carries |
|---|---|
| Team timesheet summary | Payroll hours, regular hours, overtime hours, paid time off hours, total billable amounts |
| Timesheets list | Tracked and worked hours, break duration split into paid and unpaid, deductions, overtime rates, billable rate and amount, first clock-in and last clock-out |
| Time entries list | Entry type, time and duration, project, activity and client, billable amount, notes, clock-in device, edit history, member role and position, timezone |
| Per member, summary | First in and last out, payroll, regular, overtime and PTO hours |
| Per member, detailed | The summary fields plus entry type, time, activity, project, duration, location and address |
The break handling is unusually thorough for this category. Paid and unpaid break duration are separate fields, and deductions are their own column, which means a payroll file reconciles without anyone recalculating anything by hand.
The per-member files drop the billable totals
One documented exclusion is worth catching before you send anything to a client. Jibble notes that total billable amounts are not displayed for individual timesheets, in both the summary and detailed views. The team-level file has the money in it; the per-person tabs do not. If you are producing a per-person breakdown for billing rather than for payroll, that is the field you will find missing.
What is inside the tracked time report?
By default this gives you the team tracked time summary: a breakdown of hours tracked by the whole team in a single sheet, against activities, projects and clients, with total billable amounts. You can optionally add a time entries list, which is the raw per-employee detail including projects, activities, notes, clock-in devices and clock-in locations.
The export dialog lets you set the date range, choose group and subgroup options, filter to specific data types, and pick your time and duration formats. That last one matters more than it sounds: getting durations as decimals rather than clock format saves a conversion step if the file is headed for a spreadsheet.
These exports contain location data
Worth knowing before you run one. The detailed per-member timesheet export includes location and address alongside each entry, and the time entries list includes clock-in device information and clock-in locations. Jibble is an attendance and field-workforce tool, so this is a documented part of what it records rather than anything hidden.
The practical point is about the file rather than the feature. A full detailed export is a spreadsheet containing where your staff were when they clocked in and out, it can be generated by any manager, and once it leaves Jibble it is an ordinary file on someone's laptop or in someone's inbox. Handle it the way you would handle any other staff record: send the summary rather than the detailed version when the summary answers the question, and keep the detailed file where you keep HR data.
What can Jibble import?
Jibble publishes free import tools for a long list of competitors, including Clockify, Timely, Time Doctor, Timesheets.com, Replicon, Apploye and When I Work. It is unusual in this category for putting that much effort into arrivals.
The caveat is that these are marketing pages rather than documentation. The Clockify tool page, for example, says only that you export your data from Clockify and upload it to Jibble, and that Jibble's system takes care of the rest. What transfers, what does not, and whether there is a size limit are not stated anywhere on those pages. If you are relying on one, run it on a small sample first and check the result rather than assuming a clean transfer.
Two names are missing from the list, and they are the two biggest: there is no Toggl and no Harvest import tool. Arriving from either of those means a manual route.
Where can Jibble data go next?
| Destination | Takes a CSV import? | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Clockify | Yes, the most capable in this group | Projects, clients, tasks, tags, time entries, timesheets and users, up to 10 MB and 200,000 rows. Headers must be in English and match Clockify's own naming exactly |
| Toggl Track | Yes, with a small ceiling | 1 MB maximum, workspace admins only, active users only |
| Harvest | Yes, but reshaped | Eight columns, admin only, durations only so Jibble's clock-in and clock-out times do not survive, and re-importing creates duplicates |
| Timely | Not from Jibble | Timely imports projects and clients directly from Toggl and Harvest only |
| Hubstaff | Not documented | Members and time off balances have import routes. Time entries do not |
Harvest dropping the clock times is the notable one here, because first clock-in and last clock-out are exactly what a Jibble file is built around. A move to Harvest turns an attendance record into a duration record.
Both of those import tools have their own story: what Clockify actually lets you export, and what Timely will and will not take in.
How do you move Jibble data into Timen?
Timen reads Jibble through its API. Open Settings in Timen, go to the Import tab and choose Jibble. Jibble is the only source that needs two credentials rather than one: a client ID and a client secret, both generated from Jibble's API keys page. Paste both, pick the organization, and choose what to bring across.
| In Jibble | In Timen | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Clients | Clients | Created as client records with their projects attached |
| Projects | Projects | Created under their client where one exists |
| Activities | Tags | Jibble activities arrive as Timen tags and are reattached to the entries that used them |
| Team members | Team members | Matched to your Timen team so entries keep their owner |
| Time entries | Time entries | Imported with their start and end times |
| Invoices | Not imported | Not part of the import |
Be clear about what does not transfer, because Jibble records things Timen does not. Location, GPS, clock-in device, facial verification and attendance-specific fields such as break deductions and overtime rules have no Timen equivalent and are not imported. Timen tracks time against projects and clients for billing rather than verifying attendance. If those records matter, export them from Jibble and keep the file before you close the account.
That is the honest summary of the difference between the two tools: Jibble answers who was working, and Timen answers what the work was worth. If your reason for leaving is that you need the second question answered, the import brings across everything relevant to it. If you still need the first, you probably need both tools.
On whether Jibble's free plan really covers what it claims, the free plan in detail goes through what sits behind the paywall.
Common questions about exporting Jibble data
- Does Jibble limit exports by plan?
- No. Jibble documents that exports are available to owners, admins and managers on all plans. The restriction is by role rather than by price, so a regular member cannot export their own hours.
- What is the difference between Jibble's two exports?
- The timesheet export is payroll-shaped: payroll hours, regular hours, overtime, paid time off and billable amounts. The tracked time report is activity-shaped: hours broken down by activity, project and client. Both come as CSV or XLS.
- Why are billable amounts missing from a per-member Jibble export?
- Jibble documents that total billable amounts are not displayed for individual timesheets, in both the summary and detailed views. The team-level file carries them; the per-person tabs do not.
- Does a Jibble export include location data?
- The detailed per-member timesheet export includes location and address alongside each entry, and the time entries list includes clock-in device information. Anyone running a full export is producing a file that contains where staff clocked in.
Picking the right Jibble export first time
Decide what the file is for before you open the dialog. Payroll takes the timesheet export. Client billing and project analysis take the tracked time report. A full record of an account you are closing takes both, plus the per-member detailed file if you need the location history.
Jibble is the most open tool in this comparison on the way out, with no plan gate and two thorough exports. What it does not do is turn those hours into an invoice, which is the point at which most teams start looking at what else is available.