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Absolutely this should've been included, even if just providing an option to save in v1 format. This id no different from the functionality offered in Word or even open source software such as OpenOffice.
I have to share files with a large number of colleagues, some of whom are only infrequent users who are unlikely to be bothered to upgrade. Without this very simple feature, v2 is useless to me. Yes, I'm just one user saying this, but across my organisation there are several hundred licenced affinity users who have all now been advised not to upgrade.

I am accustomed to using older versions of software to open files created with newer versions. Sure some features might be lost, but the benefits are great. 
For example, as a certified software dinosaur, I'm still running Microsoft Office 2000. I can still open files that my granddaughters create in Microsoft Office 2020. Microsoft many years ago provided an installable utility that enables this to happen.
Also, it has been routine for decades for software to save to files compatible with older versions. 

Wrong answer - not acceptable
My main workflow is working great in V2 but there are hundreds (or maybe thousands) of users that can't upgrade, I have a couple of clients, one who needs Mojave for access to Acrobat pro for pre-press checks and some CS6 stuff and one on a version of windows which is unsupported by V2, these guys and many many more have workflows in place that allow them to make a living and make deadlines, at the moment, the only Affinity files I send these clients are single pages with lots of editable layers, so the current workaround is to select all and copy paste from V2 to V1 which works decent enough and rasterises unsupported rasters and converts unsupported vectors to curves plus maintains layer names and wot-not, but for multipage documents, ie an annual report or magazine this is going to be a nightmare - yet someone working in InDesign cc could put a massive annual report together and save as IDML and V1 or V2 would open it ?!?!?!?
As it states on the Affinity home page "Wielding hundreds of timesaving improvements and a completely redesigned UI that will optimise your workflow, V2 is heralding in a new creative era." ----- timesaving improvements!?!?!? Catalina and not Mojave support means taking workarounds for a lot of users to another level, A back saving format like IDML would be a massive plus for users that can't yet upgrade, and won't upgrade until they have everything they need in Affinity - like I say, my workflow is great in V2 as I have a Big Sur / Mojave duel boot main mac and Mojave MacBook pro for Mojave essentials - I'm still an Affinity fan boy and StudioLink is incredible but I really feel for some of the users who are currently stuck.

Yes. However, it's not possible to open Affinity V2 files in Affinity V1.

I think we have received all the feedback we need for PagePlus import. I will end this thread by saying that if we did produce an importer we would wait until Affinity Publisher supports enough features that the importer would be better than our current PDF import. Sorry but that's best we can say at this time.
 

I have to say, that I am astonished at not having any way to Import PagePlus files. I got an invite by email to download the Beta as I am a Serif Customer, the main product I use is PagePlus. I have been using it for years, first with a company I worked for, then bought it myself. I have loads of files that I update regularly.
I understand new software, designed from scratch, not on the old platform, but I don't understand that there is no way to import PagePlus files. Surely there must be a way for you to do this for your existing customers, whether a stand alone app, a plug in or integrated into Affinity, I really think this is an essential. 
I use OpenOffice, if someone sends my a Microsoft Word file, I can open it with Open Office. Though it is completely different software, not built on the same code base, Open Office realise that they need to open MS Word files, as their users will need this facility. It doesn't always work perfectly because of the differences in the software features, but it does import them. I find it really hard to understand that Serif don't realise how important it is for customers to import files from their own old software. I don't expect PP to be able to open Affinity files, but I really did expect the new software to open the old files. 
The first thing I did when I opened the beta programme was to try and open an existing PagePlus file, well that didn't go well, then I looked on the forum to find out how to do it and found this thread. :(
In business it is a know fact that it is easier and cheaper to sell to existing customers that to acquire new customers. I guess a percentage of your existing customers will look elsewhere now. If they have to start from scratch anyway, they will look for a company that will support them and all their work long term. Where you could have made easy and cheap sales to existing customers, you will loose a bunch of those and have to market to new customers instead.
Me? I will continue to use PagePlus and when I need to update in the future, I will look at what is available. Maybe I will turn to Affinity, maybe not. But, where this was an opportunity for an easy sale to an existing customer, it has backfired I think.

In the past 15 years my organisation has built up a huge archive of Pageplus templates, both centrally and across 100's of branches and 300+ individual users. We would be very reluctant to either abandon these or devote the resources to reproduce them in Publisher, as we were forced to when we made the painful transition from Adobe Pagemaker to PagePlus.
Most likely we will struggle along with PagePlus for the next few years, before eventually examining all the available alternatives. It's a shame, because we've been generally impressed with what we've seen in the beta. If Publisher was able to import PagePlus files we would probably be looking to buy several hundred copies over the next year.
(And before anyone says it, yes I know Publisher does an OK job of importing pdfs - as does PagePlus - but that's not a convenient way to work when your cribbing bits of artwork off several previous jobs, especially for our less experienced infrequent users.)
As others have said, you're chasing a large group of Indesign users who could be persuaded to switch, but seem to be telling loyal Pageplus users that we're not worth the effort of supporting. 

Another pageplus user here that regularly uses the mailmerge feature. It's a must have for me, and many others in my organisation (which has about 300 ppX8/X9 users)

In the past 15 years my organisation has built up a huge archive of Pageplus templates, both centrally and across 100's of branches and 300+ individual users. We would be very reluctant to either abandon these or devote the resources to reproduce them in Publisher, as we were forced to when we made the painful transition from Adobe Pagemaker to PagePlus.
Most likely we will struggle along with PagePlus for the next few years, before eventually examining all the available alternatives. It's a shame, because we've been generally impressed with what we've seen in the beta. If Publisher was able to import PagePlus files we would probably be looking to buy several hundred copies over the next year.
(And before anyone says it, yes I know Publisher does an OK job of importing pdfs - as does PagePlus - but that's not a convenient way to work when your cribbing bits of artwork off several previous jobs, especially for our less experienced infrequent users.)
As others have said, you're chasing a large group of Indesign users who could be persuaded to switch, but seem to be telling loyal Pageplus users that we're not worth the effort of supporting.