CRM migration

Migrate from axiUm Dental to HubSpot

Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between axiUm Dental and HubSpot. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in HubSpot.

axiUm Dental logo

axiUm Dental

Source

HubSpot

Destination

HubSpot logo

Compatibility

75%

9 of 12

objects map 1:1 between axiUm Dental and HubSpot.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

48–72 hours

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

axiUm Dental is a dental-school EHR and practice management platform built around patient records, treatment planning, clinical charting, and billing — accessed primarily via on-premise installs or Citrix VPN. HubSpot is a CRM that models contacts, companies, deals, tickets, and custom objects with a defined property schema and association graph. The migration carries axiUm patient demographics, insurance records, provider assignments, and appointment histories into HubSpot contacts, companies, and custom objects. The harder problems are mapping axiUm procedure codes and treatment plans into HubSpot's deal and ticket structures, preserving multi-record associations (patient-to-provider, patient-to-insurance) in HubSpot's N:1 lookup model, and handling axiUm's clinical notes which have no native HubSpot equivalent. We surface those as custom long-text fields or custom objects so your team can rebuild clinical context manually post-migration. The migration runs via API reads from axiUm (CE 7.04+), transformed and validated, then bulk-imported into HubSpot with field-level diff before commit. Delta runs capture any records created or modified during the cutover window, and rollback capability ensures data integrity throughout the process.

Field-level fidelity

Every standard and custom field arrives verified.

Schema-aware mapping

AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.

Relationships preserved

Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.

Full activity history

Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.

Attachments & notes

Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.

Why teams make this switch

Two sides of the same decision

Leaving

axiUm Dental logo

axiUm Dental

What's pushing teams away

  • Outdated desktop-first interface requires significant user training, and multi-step workflows for completing post-treatment documentation frustrate clinical staff and slow patient throughput.
  • Limited visibility for custom medical alerts — non-standard health history items that should flag prominently in a patient record require IT configuration to display correctly, creating patient safety risks.
  • Transitioning from a dental school environment to a commercial dental service organization reveals that axiUm's student evaluation and competency tracking features are overkill for private practice workflows.
  • Customer support responsiveness is inconsistent, with institutional IT staff often left to resolve configuration issues without vendor escalation paths.
  • Proprietary data schema and limited published API documentation make third-party integrations and data portability difficult without Exan Professional Services involvement.

Choosing

HubSpot logo

HubSpot

What's pulling them in

  • Lowest barrier to entry of any major CRM — the free tier with unlimited contacts lets teams validate fit before committing to a paid plan, according to G2 and Capterra reviewers.
  • Native integration between the CRM and sales engagement tools (sequences, email tracking, dialer) means no separate sync configuration, a theme across G2 Sales Hub reviews.
  • Pipeline visualization, deal tracking, and automated workflows are consistently praised as intuitive and easy to set up without developer involvement.
  • Strong onboarding for new team members — reviewers on Capterra and G2 highlight how quickly new reps become productive without formal training.
  • The HubSpot platform ecosystem (Marketing, Sales, Service, CMS hubs) allows growing companies to consolidate tools without building new integrations.

Object mapping

How axiUm Dental objects map to HubSpot

Each row shows how a axiUm Dental object lands in HubSpot, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.

Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.

axiUm Dental

Patient

maps to

HubSpot

Contact

1:1
Fully supported

axiUm patient records (name, DOB, contact info, address, guarantor) map 1:1 to HubSpot contacts. The patient's primary clinic assignment from axiUm stores as a HubSpot custom property. HubSpot contact create date is set from the migration timestamp; original axiUm createdate preserved in Original_Create_Date__c custom datetime field.

axiUm Dental

Patient Insurance

maps to

HubSpot

Contact (custom properties)

many:1
Fully supported

axiUm patient-to-insurance is a separate related record. Insurance carrier, policy number, group number, and subscriber relationship merge into a set of HubSpot custom contact properties (Insurance_Carrier__c, Policy_Number__c, Subscriber_Relationship__c). A patient's N insurance records collapse to the primary insurance carrier stored on the contact; secondary carriers surface as a custom multi-select or note.

axiUm Dental

Provider / Faculty / Student

maps to

HubSpot

HubSpot User

1:1
Fully supported

axiUm providers, faculty members, and students map to HubSpot users by email match. axiUm role type (Dentist, Hygienist, Resident, Student) stores as a custom HubSpot user property. Where axiUm users lack email addresses (some student accounts), they are flagged and assigned to a fallback HubSpot user or stored as a custom contact property on the patients they treated.

axiUm Dental

Appointment

maps to

HubSpot

Engagement (Meeting) + custom Deal

many:1
Fully supported

axiUm appointments (date, time, provider, clinic, type) map to HubSpot engagements with a meeting linked to the patient contact. If the appointment is a treatment visit with a procedure code, a HubSpot deal is also created with the procedure code as the deal name, the appointment date as close date, and the provider as deal owner.

axiUm Dental

Treatment Plan / Procedure

maps to

HubSpot

Deal

1:1
Fully supported

axiUm treatment plans and completed procedures (ADA codes, tooth numbers, surface designations) map to HubSpot deals. The deal name follows the format 'Procedure: [ADA Code] - [Tooth/Surface]' for clinical specificity. Planned procedures become open HubSpot deals; completed procedures close with the visit date as the close date. Procedure notes from axiUm's clinical record store in a custom long-text field on the deal.

axiUm Dental

Odontogram / Clinical Chart

maps to

HubSpot

Custom Object: Dental_Chart__c

1:1
Fully supported

axiUm odontogram data (tooth status, surfaces, existing restorations) has no native HubSpot equivalent. We create a HubSpot custom object (Dental_Chart__c) with a lookup to the contact and fields for each tooth surface. The full odontogram state serializes into structured custom properties per tooth or into a long-text custom property for reference. Your dental team rebuilds chair-side visualization using HubSpot's custom object layout editor post-migration.

axiUm Dental

Perio Chart

maps to

HubSpot

Custom Object: Perio_Record__c

1:1
Mapping required

axiUm perio pocket measurements, bleeding on probing, and recession data map to a HubSpot custom object (Perio_Record__c) with a date-stamped record per patient per visit. Probing depths (6-point per tooth) store as structured numeric custom fields or as a serialized JSON string in a long-text field for reference. Clinical periodontal classification migrates as a custom pick-list property.

axiUm Dental

Recall / Re-Care

maps to

HubSpot

HubSpot Workflow (rebuild) + custom property

1:1
Fully supported

axiUm recall intervals (6-month hygiene, perio maintenance) have no direct HubSpot equivalent. We preserve recall type and next-due date as custom contact properties (Recall_Type__c, Next_Recall_Date__c). The actual automated recall reminders must be rebuilt as HubSpot workflows or Sequences post-migration using those property values as triggers.

axiUm Dental

Clinical Note / Form

maps to

HubSpot

Contact Note + custom long-text property

1:1
Fully supported

axiUm clinical notes, medical history forms, and consent records map to HubSpot contact notes with the original note date preserved. Long-form clinical notes that exceed HubSpot's note character limits store in a custom long-text property (Clinical_Note__c). The note's author (provider/student) stores in the note association and as a custom property.

axiUm Dental

Financial Transaction / Billing

maps to

HubSpot

Contact custom properties + Deal

many:1
Fully supported

axiUm financial transactions (ADA code, amount, insurance payment, patient balance, payment date) map to HubSpot deal line items or to custom financial properties on the contact record. Outstanding balance migrates as a custom currency property (Outstanding_Balance__c). Insurance payment history stores as a custom property or as notes on the contact.

axiUm Dental

Attachment / Scanned Document

maps to

HubSpot

HubSpot File + Contact association

1:1
Fully supported

axiUm attachments and scanned consent forms, insurance cards, and treatment-plan PDFs migrate to HubSpot Files. Each file associates to the relevant patient contact. File size limits apply — HubSpot's 25MB per file is the ceiling; oversized files are flagged for manual review before the migration run.

axiUm Dental

Clinic / Site Location

maps to

HubSpot

HubSpot Company

1:1
Fully supported

axiUm clinic and site locations map to HubSpot companies with the clinic name, address, and phone as company properties. Provider lists per clinic store as custom company properties or as HubSpot company associations to the provider contacts. For multi-location dental organizations, each axiUm clinic site becomes its own HubSpot company record, preserving the provider-to-clinic assignment relationships for scheduling and reporting purposes.

Gotchas + challenges

What specifically takes care here

Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.

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axiUm Dental gotchas

High

Citrix dependency for on-premise deployments

Medium

Custom form schema varies per institution

High

MiPACS imaging data lives outside axiUm's database

Medium

CDT code versioning drift between systems

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HubSpot gotchas

High

Marketing Contacts billing model is migration-critical

High

Feature tier gating is not visible until onboarding

Medium

Mandatory onboarding fees inflate year-one cost

Medium

HubSpot CSV importer cannot migrate engagements or attachments

Medium

Custom objects require Enterprise and a pre-existing schema

Pair-specific challenges

  • axiUm clinical data has no native HubSpot home — odontograms and perio charts require custom objects

    axiUm stores odontogram tooth charts, perio pocket measurements, and surface designations as structured clinical fields. HubSpot has no native equivalent for dental clinical data. FlitStack AI creates HubSpot custom objects (Dental_Chart__c, Perio_Record__c) and maps tooth-level data as custom properties or serialized strings. The chair-side visualization that axiUm provides natively requires rebuilding in HubSpot's custom object layout editor after migration — your dental team should plan for that post-migration configuration work. We flag any perio exam record that exceeds HubSpot's custom property character limits before committing the migration so oversized data is handled as notes instead.

  • Insurance and billing records are N:1 in axiUm but must collapse to contact-level properties in HubSpot

    A single axiUm patient can have multiple insurance plans, multiple guarantors, and a full payment history across visits. HubSpot contacts support a single set of custom properties for insurance fields. FlitStack AI collapses N insurance records to the primary carrier (most recently modified or your specified rule) and stores the full insurance history as notes or a custom long-text property on the contact. If you need full financial history accessible as structured data in HubSpot, that requires a separate financial custom object and a HubSpot Enterprise custom-object schema — we surface this as a planning decision before the migration runs.

  • axiUm provider and student records may lack email addresses, breaking HubSpot user matching

    axiUm student and trainee records are often created without email addresses, particularly for dental hygiene students and pre-clinic rotations. HubSpot users require an email address for user accounts. FlitStack AI flags all axiUm provider and student records without email addresses before the migration — those records either get assigned a placeholder email format ([email protected]) for HubSpot user creation, or they are stored as a custom contact property on the patients they treated instead of being mapped to HubSpot users. Your team decides the rule before migration commits.

  • Recall and re-care automation does not migrate — the trigger logic must be rebuilt in HubSpot

    axiUm recall intervals (6-month hygiene, perio maintenance intervals, annual exam reminders) are built into the scheduling module with automated alert generation. HubSpot has no recall field and no native re-care trigger. FlitStack AI preserves recall type and next-due date as custom contact properties (Recall_Type__c, Next_Recall_Date__c), but the automation logic — what happens when a recall date passes, how reminders get sent, what owner gets assigned — must be rebuilt as a HubSpot workflow or Operations Hub sequence post-migration. We deliver a recall-logic specification document as part of the migration package for your HubSpot admin to rebuild.

  • Large clinical attachments (CBCT scans, full-mouth radiographs) may exceed HubSpot file size limits

    axiUm attachments include CBCT DICOM files, full-mouth radiograph series, and scanned documents that can reach 50–200MB per patient. HubSpot Files has a 25MB per-file ceiling. We flag any attachment exceeding the HubSpot limit before migration; your team decides whether to migrate those as compressed files, leave them in axiUm with a reference link stored in HubSpot, or handle them manually. Clinical imaging that remains in axiUm or another PACS system requires your team to maintain a cross-reference via the source_system_id__c we create on each contact record.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful axiUm Dental to HubSpot data migration

  1. Audit axiUm data model and identify migration-eligible records

    We extract the axiUm object inventory from your CE 7.04+ instance via the internal API, cataloging patients, providers, appointments, procedures, insurance records, attachments, clinical notes, and any custom fields your institution has configured. We assess data quality (duplicate patients, missing email addresses, null required fields) and produce a data-quality report before any mapping work begins. This step also identifies which axiUm modules (Perio, Forms, Attachments) are in active use so we can scope the custom-object creation correctly.

  2. Design HubSpot schema and custom object structure

    Based on the axiUm audit, we design the HubSpot schema: standard contact and company properties, custom properties for insurance and recall fields, and the Dental_Chart__c and Perio_Record__c custom objects with their property schemas. We deliver a schema setup plan so your HubSpot admin creates the custom objects and properties before data lands. We also map axiUm providers and students to HubSpot users by email, flagging any record that lacks an email address for your team to resolve or route to contact properties.

  3. Build field mapping and transformation logic

    We build the field-level mapping document covering all 40+ field mappings from axiUm objects to HubSpot properties and custom objects. Transformation logic handles date formats, pick-list value mapping (gender, recall type), tooth numbering conventions, and ADA code standardization. We run a sample migration of 200–500 patient records — spanning patients with full treatment histories, perio records, and attachments — and generate a field-level diff report so you can verify mapping accuracy before the full run.

  4. Execute full migration with delta-pickup window

    The full migration runs against your HubSpot portal using the validated field mapping. A delta-pickup window of 24–48 hours captures any axiUm records created or modified during the cutover. We re-upload attachments to HubSpot Files, respecting the 25MB per-file limit and flagging oversized clinical images for your team to handle separately. All migrated records receive the source_system_id__c property linking back to the axiUm record for traceability. Audit logging captures every operation, and one-click rollback is available if reconciliation identifies unexpected gaps.

  5. Deliver recall-rebuild specification and post-migration QA

    After migration, we deliver a recall-logic specification document describing how your axiUm recall intervals map to HubSpot workflow triggers using the Recall_Type__c and Next_Recall_Date__c custom properties. We also provide a QA checklist covering record count reconciliation, custom object completeness, owner resolution rate, and attachment coverage. If the delta-pickup window identified in-flight changes, we apply those delta records and run a final reconciliation pass before declaring the migration complete.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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axiUm Dental

Source

Strengths

  • Market-leading position in North American dental academic institutions with 90%+ penetration.
  • Comprehensive HIPAA-compliant EHR combining clinical, financial, and educational data in one system.
  • Modular architecture allows institutions to license only the modules relevant to their clinical and educational workflows.
  • Citrix-delivered desktop access and web-based PatientAccess and DoctorAccess portals provide deployment flexibility.
  • CODA accreditation compliance built into reporting and student competency tracking.

Weaknesses

  • Desktop-first application architecture with an outdated user interface that creates a steep learning curve for new users.
  • No publicly available API documentation for customers — the REST API exists only in CE 7.04+ and requires a software maintenance agreement to access.
  • Medical alert configuration lacks an intuitive interface, requiring IT-level setup to surface non-standard health flags.
  • Multi-step treatment completion workflow disperses post-care documentation across three or four separate areas of the application.
  • Limited pricing transparency with no published tiers — sales engagement required to obtain a quote.
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HubSpot

Destination

Strengths

  • Genuinely useful free CRM tier with no seat limit on contact records.
  • All-in-one sales engagement layer (sequences, email tracking, calling, dialer) embedded natively in the CRM, eliminating a separate integration.
  • Intuitive interface and fast onboarding for individual reps, per G2 and Capterra reviews.
  • Workflow automation triggers across contacts, deals, and tickets with a visual builder.
  • API coverage for all standard objects including custom objects at Enterprise tier.

Weaknesses

  • Pricing model is contact-based at the marketing layer — importing all records as marketing contacts can multiply the monthly bill by 4×.
  • Feature tier cliffs are frequent surprises: sequences, calling, advanced reporting, and quoting are all gated, often requiring plan upgrades mid-implementation.
  • Mandatory onboarding fees at Professional ($1,500) and Enterprise ($3,500) are not prominently disclosed on the pricing page.
  • API rate limits are restrictive for bulk migration — burst limits of 100-200 req/10sec and search endpoint limits of 4 req/sec require careful job queuing.
  • Custom objects, additional pipelines, and advanced forecasting are Enterprise-only, making cost projections difficult for growing teams.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Standard CRM migration. 1 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

B

Overall complexity

Standard migration

Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across axiUm Dental and HubSpot.

  • Object compatibility

    B

    1 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

  • Field mapping clarity

    C

    Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.

  • Timeline complexity

    B

    8-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.

  • API constraints

    B

    axiUm Dental: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

    axiUm Dental doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.

Estimator

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Most axiUm-to-HubSpot migrations complete in 48–72 hours of clock time for under 50,000 patient records. Larger sites with 200,000+ records, multiple clinics, or heavy perio-chart usage extend to 5–10 days. The longest planning step is designing the HubSpot custom object schema for clinical data (Dental_Chart__c, Perio_Record__c) and getting your team to approve the insurance-collapsing rules before data lands. Additional factors include the number of custom axiUm fields in use, the volume of perio records spanning multiple visits per patient, and whether large clinical attachments need to be compressed or handled separately.

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