Import from Stagetimer

Bring a rundown in from a Stagetimer CSV, a spreadsheet or a Cliqer Timer export, and take one out again.

Moving from Stagetimer, or keeping your rundown in a spreadsheet? Import the CSV and Cliqer Timer makes a new room from it. A Cliqer Timer JSON export comes back in as a whole room.

The Import a room dialog with a drop zone for a .csv or .json file and a CSV template link — Import a room, from your Cliqer Timer rooms page.

Import a CSV

Export from Stagetimer or your spreadsheet

Save the rundown as a .csv file. Any CSV with a title or duration column works; the column names below cover the usual spreadsheet and Stagetimer headings.

Open Import

Go to Cliqer Timer rooms and click Import.

Drop the file

Drop the .csv on Drop a .csv or .json file, or click to choose it.

The room is named after the file; change it under Room name. Each row has a tick box. Untick rows you do not want, or use the box in the header for all of them. An event date in the file shows as Event date.

Create the room

Click Create room with N rows. The new room opens in the control room. Back returns to the drop zone to pick another file.

The import preview with a Room name field and rows with a tick box, title, start and duration — Untick any row you do not want before you create the room.

Nothing is written until you click Create room. The room goes into the folder you have open.

Columns

Only a Title or a Duration column is needed. Column names are not case sensitive, and the common names Stagetimer and spreadsheets use all work.

Column	Also read as	Becomes
Title	name, segment, topic, item, agenda, description	The timer's title. Blank is "Untitled".
Duration	length, dur, trt, runtime	Its length.
Start	time, clock, begin, start time	A scheduled start at that clock time.
Speaker	presenter, host, moderator, who	Its speaker.
Notes	remarks, comment, comments	Its notes.
Labels	tags, category, label	Its labels, split on `,`, `;` or `\|`.

Rows above the column names are skipped, so a title block at the top of the file is fine. A line there like Date: 2026-11-04 sets the room's event date. Empty rows are skipped. A row that starts with "End of day" becomes a Day break.

CSV template in the dialog downloads a starter file with the columns in place.

Durations

You write	Read as
`1:30:00`	1 hour 30 minutes
`45:00`	45 minutes
`1h 30m`, `45m`, `90s`	Hours, minutes, seconds
`90`	90 minutes. A bare number is minutes.

A duration Cliqer Timer cannot read becomes 10 minutes. Check the preview's Duration column before you create the room.

Start times

9:00, 09:00:30 and 9:00 PM all work. A row with a start time starts at that time. A row without one is linked: it starts when the row before it ends. The first row without a time starts by hand.

Move a room between accounts

Every room card on Cliqer Timer rooms has Export JSON and Export CSV in its menu.

Export	Holds	Use it to
Export JSON	The whole room as it is saved.	Copy the room to another account, or keep a backup. Import it to get the room back.
Export CSV	Title, date, time zone, then `#`, Start, Duration, Title, Speaker, Notes, Labels.	Open the rundown in a spreadsheet, or take it to another tool.

A JSON import always makes a new room. The server gives it new ids and new link codes, so links from the old room do not open it. Only a Cliqer Timer export is read as JSON; a Stagetimer room comes in through its CSV.

To import over the API instead, see import_csv in API and integrations.

FAQ

Control room

Run the room you just imported.

API and integrations

Import and run rooms from other tools.

Audience questions

Collect questions from the audience on their phones, moderate them and put one on stage.

API and integrations

Run a Cliqer Timer room from your own tools over HTTP, and get a signed webhook when the show moves.