CRM migration

Migrate from Brivity to Twenty CRM

Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Brivity and Twenty CRM. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Twenty CRM.

Brivity logo

Brivity

Source

Twenty CRM

Destination

Twenty CRM logo

Compatibility

100%

12 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Brivity and Twenty CRM.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

3–7 days

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Brivity is a real-estate-specific CRM that bundles contact management with IDX websites, transaction tools, and marketing automation under a single per-seat subscription. Twenty CRM is a general-purpose open-source CRM built on PostgreSQL that stores the same core objects — People, Companies, Opportunities, Notes, Tasks — but treats them as plain CRM primitives without real estate intrinsics. The migration carries Brivity contacts and companies directly into Twenty's People and Companies, maps deal records to Twenty Opportunities, and translates Brivity's transaction and listing data into custom fields or custom objects depending on how your team used them. The parts that cannot migrate automatically are Brivity's IDX website bindings, transaction management workflows, and Auto Plans — those have to be rebuilt in Twenty's settings, and FlitStack exports a rebuild reference so your admin knows exactly what to recreate. We use Brivity's CSV export capability and REST API as the source mechanism, map every field through a field-level diff, and land clean data in Twenty's CSV import format with relation IDs resolved.

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

Brivity logo

Brivity

What's pushing teams away

  • Setup is time-consuming and the feature set is wide, so teams commonly report they only use a fraction of what they pay for each month.
  • Brivity organizes and tracks existing leads but does not generate new ones, frustrating teams whose real problem is inconsistent lead flow rather than poor follow-up.
  • Add-on costs for AI writing, recruiter tools, and virtual assistants stack on top of the base price, leading to sticker shock once the full feature set is licensed.
  • The platform can feel overwhelming initially, especially for solo agents who do not need team accountability dashboards or complex pipeline management.

Choosing

Twenty CRM logo

Twenty CRM

What's pulling them in

  • Top open-source CRM on GitHub with 40.6K stars, giving teams full source code access and infrastructure ownership without per-feature licensing surprises.
  • Free self-hosting under AGPL-3.0 means unlimited users and custom objects for the cost of cloud infrastructure alone, typically $20–100/month.
  • Pricing page explicitly mocks competitors for charging add-on fees for API access, webhooks, and workflows — transparency that resonates with RevOps teams burned by Salesforce.
  • Unlimited custom objects and fields with no price impact, letting teams shape the data model to their business rather than forcing business into rigid schemas.
  • Modern TypeScript/React/PostgreSQL stack means developer-led teams can extend, self-host, or integrate without fighting legacy architecture.

Object mapping

How Brivity objects map to Twenty CRM

Each row shows how a Brivity object lands in Twenty CRM, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.

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

Brivity

Contact / Person

maps to

Twenty CRM

People

1:1
Fully supported

Brivity contact records map directly to Twenty CRM People. The People object holds name, email, phone, job title, and a companyId relation. Brivity contacts without a primary company get created in Twenty with the companyId field left empty for manual assignment or linking.

Brivity

Company

maps to

Twenty CRM

Companies

1:1
Fully supported

Brivity company records map directly to Twenty CRM Companies. The Companies object in Twenty stores name, domain, industry, employee count, and annual revenue fields. Parent-company hierarchies present in Brivity translate into Twenty's hierarchical company model when applicable, preserving organizational structures across the migration.

Brivity

Deal / Transaction

maps to

Twenty CRM

Opportunities

1:1
Fully supported

Brivity deal and transaction records map to Twenty CRM Opportunities. The Opportunities object captures deal name, pipeline stage, monetary amount, expected close date, and relational links to People and Company records. Pipeline stage values from Brivity translate directly to Twenty's stage pick-list options on each Opportunity record.

Brivity

Task / Follow-up

maps to

Twenty CRM

Tasks

1:1
Fully supported

Brivity tasks and follow-up items map to Twenty Tasks. Tasks in Twenty support due dates, assignees, and completion status fields. Each task can be linked to a People, Companies, or Opportunities record through relations, preserving the contextual connection between follow-up activities and the relevant CRM records.

Brivity

Note / Call Note

maps to

Twenty CRM

Notes

1:1
Fully supported

Brivity notes and call logs map to Twenty Notes. Notes in Twenty can be attached to People, Companies, Opportunities, or any custom object. The original creation timestamps and full note body text are preserved exactly as they existed in Brivity, maintaining the historical context of every client interaction.

Brivity

Lead Source

maps to

Twenty CRM

People.customField

1:1
Fully supported

Brivity lead source properties indicating how each contact was generated have no direct standard field equivalent in Twenty's People object. We create a custom field (lead_source__c) on the People object in Twenty's Data Model settings and migrate the original lead source values so your attribution data remains intact and reportable after migration.

Brivity

Referral Type

maps to

Twenty CRM

People.customField

1:1
Fully supported

Brivity referral type properties tracking whether contacts originated from past client referrals, sphere of influence sources, or other categories migrate as a custom pick-list field (referral_type__c) on the People object. This preserves the referral attribution logic your team relies on for analyzing lead sources in Twenty CRM.

Brivity

Transaction / Listing Record

maps to

Twenty CRM

Custom Object

1:1
Fully supported

Brivity transaction and listing records do not have a native equivalent in Twenty's standard objects. We create a custom object (Transaction__c) in Twenty matching the fields Brivity stores (property address, listing price, status, agent, close date) and migrate all historical transaction records as records of that custom object.

Brivity

Pipeline Stage

maps to

Twenty CRM

Opportunities.stage

1:1
Fully supported

Brivity pipeline stage names (e.g., 'New Lead', 'Showing Scheduled', 'Under Contract', 'Closed') map to Twenty Opportunity stage pick-list values. Each Brivia pipeline stage gets a corresponding Twenty stage entry so the deal progression logic reads correctly in Twenty's kanban view.

Brivity

Owner / Agent

maps to

Twenty CRM

WorkspaceMember

1:1
Fully supported

Brivity owner/agent assignments resolve by email match against Twenty workspace members. Unmatched owners are flagged before migration — your team either invites them to Twenty first or assigns their records to a fallback member. No record lands without an owner in Twenty.

Brivity

Activity History (calls, texts, emails)

maps to

Twenty CRM

Tasks

1:1
Fully supported

Brivity activity history (logged calls, sent texts, email records) migrates as Twenty Tasks with type labels preserved. Each activity record links to the parent People or Opportunity record. Original activity timestamps are stored as custom datetime fields for reporting continuity.

Brivity

Auto Plan / Sequence

maps to

Twenty CRM

Workflow (rebuild reference)

1:1
Fully supported

Brivity Auto Plans and marketing sequences are workflow logic tied to contact lifecycle triggers. Twenty has a workflow builder, but the automation definitions do not transfer. FlitStack exports the full Auto Plan configuration as a JSON reference document your admin can use to rebuild the logic in Twenty's workflow settings.

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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Brivity gotchas

High

No public API forces CSV-based migration scoping

High

Auto Plans and automated sequences do not transfer

Medium

IDX website configuration is non-transferable

Medium

Add-on pricing creates unpredictable total cost

Low

GCI and commission data may not survive field mapping

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Twenty CRM gotchas

High

Import order is enforced and critical

High

Export limited to 20,000 records and visible columns only

Medium

Soft-deleted records count toward uniqueness and trigger restores

Medium

API rate limits cap at 200 req/min on Organization tier

Low

No native email sequences — follow-up cadences require external tools

Pair-specific challenges

  • Import order matters in Twenty CRM — relationships break if you load out of sequence

    Twenty's CSV import requires records to exist before they can be referenced by foreign keys. Companies must import first so that People can reference a companyId. Opportunities must import third so they can reference both a personId and a companyId. Custom objects with relations to standard objects import last. FlitStack sequences the migration exactly in this order and validates that every foreign key resolves before committing records. If you import out of order, Twenty will either reject the import or create orphaned records with null relation IDs.

  • Brivity Auto Plans and sequences have no equivalent in Twenty CRM's workflow builder

    Brivity Auto Plans are automation rules tied to contact lifecycle triggers, lead source conditions, and deal stage transitions. Twenty CRM has a workflow builder that handles day-to-day task automations and field updates, but the trigger conditions, time-delay logic, and multi-step sequences from Brivity do not export in a transferable format. FlitStack extracts the Auto Plan configuration as a JSON reference document that describes every step, trigger, and condition so your Twenty admin can rebuild the logic. This rebuild step is not included in the base migration scope.

  • Twenty CRM requires custom fields to exist before CSV import — fields don't auto-create

    Unlike some CRMs that auto-create fields during import, Twenty CRM requires you to pre-create every custom field in Settings → Data Model before the CSV import runs. Fields are not auto-generated from CSV headers. FlitStack generates a field-creation checklist as part of the migration plan — your admin creates the custom fields first, then the import runs against a Twenty workspace that already has the complete field schema. This two-step sequence adds planning time to the migration but prevents the import from silently skipping unmapped columns.

  • Brivity transaction and listing records have no native equivalent in Twenty CRM

    Brivity stores real estate transaction and listing data as part of its domain-specific object model. Twenty CRM is a general CRM with no built-in real estate concepts. FlitStack creates a custom object (Transaction__c) in Twenty to store historical transaction records with fields for status, close date, property address, and sale price. However, active listings and their IDX bindings cannot be represented in Twenty without significant custom object work, and the listing website itself must be hosted separately after migration.

  • Twenty CRM CSV export caps at 20,000 records per file — large Brivity databases need batched extraction

    Twenty's CSV export function limits each export to 20,000 records per file. For Brivity databases exceeding that threshold, FlitStack runs multiple export passes with date-range filters or record-type filters to pull all data in batches. The same limit applies in reverse — if you ever need to re-import from Twenty, you must chunk large datasets into files of 20,000 records or fewer. This is a Twenty platform constraint, not a Brivity constraint, and it affects both the extraction and the load phases of the migration.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Brivity to Twenty CRM data migration

  1. Audit Brivity data and prepare Twenty workspace

    FlitStack exports all Brivity objects via CSV — contacts, companies, deals, transactions, tasks, and notes. We run a data quality report to flag duplicate records, missing email addresses, and records without owner assignments. Simultaneously, we review your Twenty workspace and generate a custom field creation checklist for all Brivity custom properties that don't have native Twenty equivalents. Your admin pre-creates those fields in Settings → Data Model before the migration plan is finalized.

  2. Create field mappings and resolve object relationships

    We build a field-level mapping document that pairs every Brivity field to its Twenty counterpart — direct mappings, custom field targets, value mappings for pick-list options, and transformed fields where the data shape changes (e.g., Brivity owner_id resolving to Twenty Workspace Member ID by email match). We also resolve the dependency order: Companies load first, then People with companyId references, then Opportunities with both personId and companyId references, then custom objects last.

  3. Run sample migration with field-level diff

    A representative slice — typically 200–500 records spanning contacts, companies, deals, and transactions — migrates into Twenty first. We generate a field-level diff comparing source values against destination values so you can verify that pick-list mappings are correct, custom fields populated as expected, and owner resolution worked for your team roster. You sign off on the sample before the full migration runs. Any mapping corrections happen at this stage.

  4. Execute full migration with delta pickup

    Full migration runs against Twenty's CSV import pipeline. A delta pickup window — typically 24–48 hours after the main migration window — captures any records created or modified in Brivity during the cutover so Twenty reflects the final state at go-live. FlitStack logs every record operation (create, update, skip) in an audit log. If reconciliation fails, one-click rollback reverts the Twenty workspace to its pre-migration state.

  5. Deliver Auto Plan export and post-migration verification

    After the data migration completes, FlitStack delivers a JSON export of all Brivity Auto Plan definitions and sequence logic as a rebuild reference for your Twenty admin. We run a final record count reconciliation against the source CSV exports to confirm no records were missed. You verify the data in Twenty — pipeline stages, custom fields, contact associations — and flag any records that need correction before your team begins working in the new CRM.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Brivity

Source

Strengths

  • All-in-one platform covers CRM, marketing automation, transaction management, and IDX websites in a single subscription.
  • Built by a real brokerage managing over $1B in annual sales, providing real-estate-specific workflows out of the box.
  • Bundled lead capture websites and IDX integration make the platform immediately functional for agents without separate web tooling.
  • Included live support, onboarding, and weekly webinars reduce the self-serve learning burden for busy agents.
  • Design automation tools let teams maintain consistent branding across listings, social posts, and print collateral.

Weaknesses

  • No documented public API means all data export relies on CSV downloads, which may omit custom fields, attachments, or activity details.
  • Auto Plans and workflow automations cannot be exported and must be rebuilt manually at the destination, losing any custom logic or timing rules.
  • Pricing is opaque above the solo tier, with add-ons for AI writing, recruiting, and virtual assistants adding to the base cost unpredictably.
  • The platform requires significant setup time and a steep initial learning curve, leading many teams to underutilize features they are paying for.
  • Lead generation is not addressed by Brivity itself; teams expecting the CRM to solve inconsistent lead flow will be disappointed.
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Twenty CRM

Destination

Strengths

  • AGPL-3.0 open-source license with full source code on GitHub — no vendor lock-in, no sunset risk.
  • Unlimited users and unlimited custom objects on self-hosted, with no feature gating based on headcount.
  • REST and GraphQL APIs available on all paid tiers, not locked behind an enterprise add-on fee.
  • MCP server and webhooks shipped as standard features, not premium upgrades.
  • Modern PostgreSQL-backed data model that developer teams can query, extend, and self-host.

Weaknesses

  • Recent v1.0 release means limited production hardening compared to CRMs with multi-year operational track records.
  • No native email sequencing or sales engagement tools — follow-up cadences require a separate platform.
  • No native two-way email sync or inbox integration, requiring third-party connectors for full activity logging.
  • Self-hosting 'free' pricing hides real infrastructure and DevOps costs that stack up over time.
  • Workflow automation is functional but lacks the complexity needed for sophisticated multi-step sales motions.

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 Brivity and Twenty CRM.

  • 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

    Brivity: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

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Most Brivity-to-Twenty migrations complete in 3–7 days of clock time for under 25,000 records. The longest phase is the upfront planning: auditing Brivity custom properties, creating Twenty custom fields, and resolving the import dependency order. Larger databases over 100,000 records or setups with extensive transaction history extend the timeline to 2–4 weeks because each custom object and its relations require sequencing validation before the CSV import runs.

Adjacent paths

Related migrations to explore

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