Managing Items

Table of Contents

• About Managing Items
• Adding items
• Importing items
• Troubleshooting Imports
• Import FAQs
• Cloning an item
• Deleting an item
• Items in the trash

About Managing Items

Managing the items in your vault is key to making sure that you secure, have access to, and can share the correct information with friends, family, teams, and colleagues.

Adding items

Adding items to your Bitwarden vault can be done manually or via import.

To manually add an item, once you’re in your vault - simply click or touch the “+” icon or “Add item” button.

You’ll then be asked to provide details about the item.

The type of item can be:

• Login: A username/password combination usually, with support for custom fields, notes, and TOTP generation for premium and enterprise accounts.
• Card: Saves payment card data that can be automatically filled.
• Identity: Personal/Business information such as name and addresses, date of birth, and even notes.
• Secure Note: Freeform text that will be stored completely encrypted in your vault.

Importing items

If you’re coming from another password manager or just happen to have your usernames and passwords in a spreadsheet, you can import them into Bitwarden

You can find more details about importing items and supported import formats here.

Import FAQs

• Why is my import file invalid?
  • Check to make sure the file has content. Most of the time the exported file does not contain any data.
• Why do I have duplicate entries?
  • The Bitwarden import tool does not perform duplicate entry detection on import. If you run an import on an existing vault, or import multiple times, your data may be duplicated.
• How do I clean up duplicates?
  • We recommend exporting the data from your vault into a CSV/JSON file and performing a vault purge to delete your data.

  Warning

  Performing a vault purge is permanent and cannot be undone. Once the vault has been emptied and the CSV/JSON file has been pruned of any duplicates, simply re-import your data.

Cloning an item

If you wish to recreate an item (either to share with an organization or to simply make a copy of an item, you can now do so - provided you are the owner of the item - with a one-click operation. This copies the item completely and maintains all data.

Simply select clone under the item’s action menu:

Deleting an item

Deleting an item can also be performed in the item’s action menu.

Once the delete button is selected, you will be prompted to confirm the deletion.

Once confirmed, the item will be placed into the trash.

Items in the trash

Once an item has been deleted and is in the trash, it will remain there for 30 days. You can alternatively navigate to the trash view in your vault and restore, or permanently delete the item immediately.