Switching to DiveDay
Your customers and their certification records live in DiveShop360’s cloud, and the way out is the four CSVs its own FAQ names, downloaded one at a time (no bulk export, no API). You need two of them. This guide covers the path, with a plain account of what makes the trip and what stays behind.
The demo is a working shop. No sign-up, nothing to import, and nothing to undo.
Where you are today
DiveShop360 grew out of a retail point-of-sale system, and that is where it is strongest: registers, inventory, vendor catalogs. Its own FAQ names four CSV exports: customers, inventory, sales reports, and certification data. A move to DiveDay needs two of them, customers and certification data.
DiveDay does not replace your point of sale. It runs the water: bookings, readiness, the boat. Bring your POS and DiveDay runs the dive day, which is why we only ask for the customer and certification files.
You export your own CSV from your own DiveShop360 account. DiveDay never signs into DiveShop360 and never reaches across to pull your data. It is your data to hand us.
Walk the live demo as the owner, the captain, or a diver. The same cert checks, waivers, and roll call are what your file lands into.
Every step is one you run yourself, in your own time. Rather hand it off? Send us the file and a person brings your divers in with you, free.
DiveShop360 runs in a browser, and exports come from the back-office admin rather than the register. You want two CSVs, customers and certification data. There is no public API or bulk export, so it is a manual download one dataset at a time, and menu labels shift between versions.
Exports live in the back office, behind an owner or manager login, not the point-of-sale screen your front desk rings sales on.
Look under Customers or Reports for a CSV export of your customer list. DiveShop360’s own FAQ lists customers as one of the four datasets you can export.
Export the whole customer list, not a filtered or single-page view, so no one is left behind. Save the file where you’ll find it.
Certifications are a separate one of DiveShop360’s four exportable datasets. Export it as CSV. It holds the agency, level, and certification number, and that number is what lets a record come across at all.
Those are the other two exportable datasets. You do not need them for DiveDay, which is not your POS. Keep them for your own records.
If a dataset will not export from the UI, their support can produce a customer or certification CSV. Ask in writing and keep the file. That file is all DiveDay needs.
The same table DiveDay shows you before it imports a single row.
Everything above is what arrives. What arrives is also what leaves: Settings → Data export downloads one ZIP of plain, documented CSVs (divers, bookings, waiver records, payment history), led by a contacts file shaped for another system’s import wizard. Every stored photo (certification evidence, dive-site pictures, trip recaps) comes as a real file rather than a link.
No export fee, no support ticket, no minimum stay, and the same download works on the first day of a trial.
The rest is in DiveDay, and it takes minutes.
The owner or manager uploads the CSV in your DiveDay shop.
DiveDay maps your columns and shows how each one landed, what it’s leaving behind, and any row it can’t bring across. A diver with a matching email is updated, not duplicated. Nothing saves until you confirm.
Roster, sizes, and certification records land immediately. They arrive flagged imported, with a one-tap confirm for staff, and only a specialty-gated dive waits on that confirmation.
For a DiveShop360 export: DiveShop360 exports customers and certification data as two separate files. Import the customer file first. DiveDay matches people by email, so the certification file adds to the same divers instead of duplicating them. That file usually holds one row per certification: a diver with three certifications appears on three rows, each landing on that one diver, and a row reading “PADI Deep Diver” becomes a deep specialty certification.
Leaving a system you have run for years does not have to mean a weekend of downtime.
The live demo runs the same roles your dock does. Have the captain run a roll call and the desk see who’s not ready before you move a single record.
Import into DiveDay and start taking real trips through it (waivers, roster, manifest) while your old system keeps running alongside. Nothing forces a hard cutoff on day one.
Pick a week with the fewest trips already on the books. Fewer live bookings straddling the switch means less to reconcile by hand.
Re-run the export later, once your old system has more bookings in it. DiveDay matches existing divers by email and updates them instead of creating a second record, and a repeated visit history collapses instead of doubling.
Exporting from the old system is minutes of work, and the preview shows what will land before anything saves. Review it, fix any flagged rows, and import for real. It takes one sitting.
A person does the import with you
Send us what you have, whether a clean export or a decade of messy tabs, and we will map the columns and bring your divers in with you, free. If DiveDay is ever the wrong fit, we will help you carry it all back out the same way.
Walk the demo first, then bring your export. The cert checks, waivers, and roll call are already in place.