Fieldwork data ownership is not a feature. It is the question underneath every feature: when you log an hour, who actually holds it? Your fieldwork record is years of documented, audit-relevant work, and it decides when you sit for your exam. As of v1.2, ABA Fieldwork Tracker answers the question with a button. Export Hours lets you download your fieldwork as a CSV, all of it or a single month, whenever you want, for any reason, with no hoops.
Here is what shipped, how it works, and why we think an export button says more about a tool than any pricing page does.
Why ownership is the whole game
A fieldwork record is not like most app data. It accumulates for years, it must be retained for years more, and it cannot be re-created if it is lost. Trainees change employers mid-fieldwork all the time, and the sharpest lesson this field teaches is that records kept only in someone else’s system have a way of staying behind when you leave.
That is why data ownership sits at the center of how ABA Fieldwork Tracker is built. Your hours belong to you, not to your employer and not to us. We have written before about what to look for when choosing a fieldwork tracker, and ownership is the test we would apply to any tool, including this one. Export Hours is that test, passed in the most literal way we could build.
What Export Hours does
- All of it, or one month. Download every hour you have ever logged, or narrow the export to a single month.
- Organization-aware. When a month spans more than one organization, you pick the one you want, so the file matches how your fieldwork is actually structured.
- A plain CSV. The file opens in any spreadsheet tool. No proprietary format, no reader app, no expiring download link.
- A simple, no-surprises flow. A couple of clicks, a clear summary of what you are about to download, and the file is yours.
Your official record, and your copy
One honest distinction matters here. The CSV is an unofficial copy for your own files. Your official record stays in ABA Fieldwork Tracker and in your verified reports, where entries live alongside the compliance checks and signatures that make them credible. The export is not a replacement for that record. It is proof that the record answers to you: back it up, analyze it, file it wherever you keep the things you refuse to lose.
Supervisors get the same control
Control should not stop at the trainee’s side of the relationship. A supervisor can export a connected trainee’s hours the same way, straight from that trainee’s entry in the supervisor dashboard. Your signature carries responsibility, and the record behind it should be available to you without asking anyone’s permission, including ours.
Your hours, in your hands.
Export Hours is live in ABA Fieldwork Tracker. Register free, log your fieldwork, and download your record whenever you want it. No credit card, no ads.
No lock-in, no price tag on your own record
Plenty of tools in every industry treat stored data as leverage: easy to put in, expensive or impossible to take out. We think a tool that supports this community has to prove the opposite, in export buttons rather than promises. In ABA Fieldwork Tracker there is no charge to export, no premium tier holding your history, and no ads sitting on top of your compliance data (last verified July 2026). Export Hours joins the CSV, PDF, and import tools already covered on our Your Data page, and the same stance runs through how we guard your record: it is years of your work, so it is treated like it.
The full v1.2 notes are on our What’s New page.
Key takeaways
- Export Hours is live: download all of your logged fieldwork, or a single month, as a CSV, and pick the organization when a month spans several.
- Your official record stays in ABA Fieldwork Tracker and your verified reports; the CSV is your unofficial copy, for your own files.
- Supervisors can export a connected trainee’s hours directly from their dashboard.
- Fieldwork data ownership is the standard to demand from any tool that holds your hours: your record should follow you, free, for your whole career.
ABA Fieldwork Tracker is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board®. Always consult the current BACB® requirements and your supervisor for authoritative guidance on fieldwork documentation.