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How to import Bitwarden organization vault?

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August 27, 2025
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I'm migrating my vaults from Bitwarden, where I have a family plan. My personal vault imported fine, but when I try to import my organization vault (containing shared credentials for my family) I get this error. I browsed the help pages for 1pass but I didn't find a solution. I'm not sure what "Move them to a private vault first" means.

How do I import my shared family vault?

Best answer by 1P_Dave

Hello folks,

Right now, 1Password’s Bitwarden importer only supports items from a personal Bitwarden vault export. Items stored in shared collections aren’t included, so the import will fail if the export contains shared collection items. I've filed a feature request to have the team look into supporting shared collections in the future.

As a workaround, you can move shared items into a private/personal vault in Bitwarden, export, import into 1Password, then move items into the appropriate shared vaults in 1Password.

You can find our guide on importing items from Bitwarden here: Move your data from Bitwarden to 1Password

-Dave

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1P_Tommy

1Password Employee

@voidpointer

That would seemingly indicate that you should take that data and move it into a vault that only you have access you. It cannot be imported from the shared vault. Looking at the message this would seem to be on the Bitwarden side. Bitwadren is not my specialty but this is how it reads to me. Once the data is in 1Password you could opt to place it in the shared vault as desired.

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voidpointerAuthor

I appreciate the reply but I'm not sure what it is you're suggesting that I do. The error message is not clear and I'm not sure what your solution is. I've already reached out to customer support at this point as this is interfering with my ability to test out 1password during my trial. The fact that onboarding is this troublesome isn't a good sign.

1P_Timothy

Community Manager

Thanks for following up with us, and my apologies for any lack of clarity on our part. Your feedback has been shared with the team.

It looks like the conversation on importing continued with our team via email. If there's anything else we can help with please feel free to follow up on that email thread, or message us here. Thanks again for your input.

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mattr

I found a way to do this that was not too much work.

In Bitwarden, export from your Organization (json password protected)
In Bitwarden, import this file into your Personal Vault
In Bitwarded, export from your Personal Vault (json password protected)
In 1Password, import this file

This takes a bit of effort. Would be great if 1Password could just allow the direct import of Bitwarden Organization shared collections.

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