Your data, always portable.

Vendor lock-in in feedback tools is rarely about contracts. It is about the friction of getting your data out. The vendor that ships a quarterly "export ZIP" with truncated columns and missing relationships has effectively locked you in, because rebuilding your historical data in a new system is a months-long project nobody wants to fund. Upvoty takes the opposite position: data exports are a first-class, on-demand, unlimited part of the product. The same data you see in the UI, with the same fidelity, available in CSV or via the API anytime you ask.

That commitment is more than a feature flag. CSV exports include every column you can see in the product, plus every custom field you have defined, plus stable IDs that join cleanly across files. Timestamps are ISO-8601. Encoding is UTF-8, so emoji and non-Latin characters survive the round trip. Activity events carry references that match the IDs in the posts and voters exports, so reconstructing the full event timeline in your warehouse is a two-line SQL join, not a regex archaeology project.

What you can do with the data

Most Upvoty customers use exports for three things. First, regular pipeline into a warehouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres, where feedback data joins customer, revenue, and product analytics for cross-cutting analysis. Second, ad-hoc deep dives in spreadsheets when a product manager needs to slice feedback in a way the product UI does not natively support. Third, GDPR-compliant per-user exports and deletes when a customer requests their data or asks to be forgotten.

For real-time use cases, the Upvoty API and webhook event stream are the right primitives. CSV exports are the right shape for batch jobs and human analysis; webhooks are the right shape for low-latency sync into other systems. Both are available on every plan.

Filtered exports for surgical extraction

Exporting every post is rarely what you actually need. More often you want "all open P0 posts on the Enterprise board reported in the last 90 days", or "all voters who upvoted the dark mode post, grouped by plan tier". Upvoty supports filtered exports that respect the current filter or segment, so the CSV that lands on your desktop contains exactly the slice you were looking at in the UI, no more, no less. This is the difference between a 1,200-row file you can open in Numbers and a 240,000-row file that crashes Excel.

Compliance, audit, and continuity

Exports are also a quiet compliance feature. The activity log can be exported in full, which gives you the audit trail SOC 2 and ISO 27001 auditors want to see. Per-user data export and delete are built in, which satisfies GDPR Articles 15 and 17 without a custom engineering project. And because exports are unmetered and self-serve, business continuity planning is straightforward: you can take a complete snapshot of your feedback data on any schedule that fits your retention policy, and store it wherever your security team requires.

Combined with private boards and role-based access, export permissions are scoped: only admins can run full-workspace exports, and per-board exports respect board access. The data is portable, but the portability does not become a permission loophole.