It is your data, and PartsBox will never hold it hostage. Getting it out is a single click, and getting it in from another tool is a free service for newly subscribed customers on commercial plans.
Moving from another system? PartsBox will import your existing data for you, free of charge. It is real custom work — every source tool stores things differently — so it is normally done once you have subscribed and looked through the demo, rather than as a first step.
The one requirement is that the data be machine-readable. A clean database dump or a structured CSV imports well. A spreadsheet that grew by hand over the years is not really a database — it is a set of notes meant for a person to read, and its ambiguous parts have to be matched by hand, because a wrong guess is costly to undo. You will get an honest assessment of what is in good shape and what is not; sometimes the better path is to enter it cleanly by hand.
Parts & Vendors™ is no longer supported by Trilogy but still in wide use. Zip up its Microsoft Access database (the .mdb file) and email it to support@partsbox.com.
Generate an XML dump of your MySQL database with mysqldump:
mysqldump --xml partkeepr --result-file pk.xmland email the resulting pk.xml to support@partsbox.com. Use mysqldump specifically — tools like phpMyAdmin produce their own formats, which are harder to read and import less accurately.
PartsBox can also import from Excel, CSV, SQL dumps, and XML dumps. Subscribe, prepare your data in one of these formats, and email it to support@partsbox.com.
The API allows you to create storage locations, projects, and more, so it can also be used to import data. You (or an AI) can create custom import scripts that will take existing data and convert it into API calls.
Export everything you have ever entered as one JSON file, at any time, from Settings | Data | Download JSON. There is no lock-in and nothing to request. (The JSON does not include file attachments; download those separately.)
Exporting your data is available in every plan, including the free Maker plan.