export directory information

Right now, we have this FAQ: https://businessdirectoryplugin.com/support-forum/faq/how-to-export-listings-from-bd-using-sql/

Hopefully that gets you what you need until we can support this as a first-class feature.

Unfortunately, I’m not a developer and this is completely over my head. I was hoping to find some instructions suited to the average user. Do I need to hire a developer to do this export?

Yes, although even with a developer, this should be a simple, short task. If you hire a contractor, don’t let them charge you an arm and a leg for it. This ought to be less than an hour’s work to do an export.

Less than an hour to export AND put into a usable spreadsheet format?

The export should put the data into a reasonable format. Since they have the query, formatting should be the only trick. Maybe 2 hours at the most.