Migrate from BlinQ to Zoho CRM

Blinq contact profiles map directly to Zoho CRM Contacts when the record represents an existing customer or known contact. Prospects without a Zoho Account lookup route to the Lead module first; leads can be converted to Contacts once an Account is associated in Zoho.

Blinq's primary card fields — including First Name, Last Name, Job Title, Company Name, Email address, and Phone number — map one-to-one to their corresponding Zoho CRM Contact standard fields: First_Name, Last_Name, Title, Account_Name (lookup), Email, and Phone. No data transformation is required during migration; field values transfer verbatim from Blinq to Zoho. Any null or empty values in Blinq are preserved as null fields in Zoho rather than being populated with placeholder text.

Blinq stores enriched card data (LinkedIn URL, Twitter, custom question responses) as key-value properties with no fixed schema. These map to Zoho CRM custom fields on the Contact module. We create a custom Text or URL field per unique Blinq property key, preserving the original value for every contact that has it populated.

Blinq company name on a contact card maps to Zoho Account Name. If Blinq has a standalone company profile (with domain, industry, employee count), those fields map to the corresponding Zoho Account fields. The Account record must exist before the Contact is linked via Account_Name lookup.

Blinq meeting context (meeting date, attendee, notes) stored as contact-level notes or tags maps to Zoho CRM Events. Each Blinq meeting instance becomes a Zoho Event record linked to the Contact via the What_Id or Contact lookup. Original meeting timestamp is preserved as the Event start_time.

Blinq tags applied to contacts migrate as Zoho Tags on the Contact module. Tag names are copied verbatim. Zoho tags are module-scoped, so a tag applied to a Contact in Blinq appears as a Zoho Tag on that Contact record. Tag hierarchy or categories in Blinq (if used) map to a custom pick-list field in Zoho.

If Blinq tracks prospect lifecycle (Lead, Qualified, Customer), those values map to Zoho Lead Status pick-list. The Blinq lifecycle value is stored as a custom field on the Contact if the contact has already been qualified. Value-by-value mapping ensures no unsupported pick-list entry lands in Zoho.

Blinq card ownership or CRM sync ownership maps to Zoho CRM User records matched by email address. Unmatched owners (Blinq users not yet in Zoho) are flagged before migration; those records can be assigned to a default Zoho admin user or held pending Zoho user provisioning.

Blinq's internal contact identifier is stored as a custom text field on the Zoho Contact for traceability. This field enables delta-run de-duplication (re-running the migration picks up new Blinq contacts by checking this ID) and supports audit trails linking Zoho records back to their Blinq origin.

Blinq's CRM sync log — which records which Zaps fired, last sync timestamps, and sync error details — has no direct equivalent in Zoho CRM's data model. This operational metadata about your existing automation activity is not migrated to Zoho because there is no corresponding field or object to receive it. Before migration begins, your team should export your active Zapier configuration separately using Zapier's built-in export feature to create a reference document for rebuilding those automations in Zoho Blueprint or Workflow Rules.

Blinq card profile images and attached files download from Blinq storage and re-upload to Zoho CRM as Attachments on the Contact record. Zoho's attachment limit of 25 MB per file applies; images and PDFs under this threshold migrate without transformation.