CRM migration

Migrate from Cirqll to monday CRM

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

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Cirqll

Source

monday CRM

Destination

monday CRM logo

Compatibility

100%

8 of 8

objects map 1:1 between Cirqll and monday CRM.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

1-2 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Cirqll to Monday.com CRM is a structural migration from a flat object model to a board-and-column architecture. Cirqll stores Customers, Leads, Tasks, Activities, Notes, and Calendar Events as discrete objects with a REST API capped at 100 requests per minute; Monday.com CRM represents the same records as Items inside Boards with Status, Date, Assignee, and custom Columns. We sequence the load in dependency order — Contacts first, then Leads and Activities, then Tasks and Calendar Events — and chunk all API calls to avoid Cirqll's rate limit ceiling. Monday.com does not have native sequences or marketing automation, and Cirqll's automation options are minimal, so neither platform's workflow layer is a migration risk. We do not migrate automations, forms, or dashboards as code; we deliver a written inventory of board structures, column schemas, and automation triggers for the customer's team to rebuild in Monday.com's automation engine post-migration.

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

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Cirqll

What's pushing teams away

  • Small review base suggests limited enterprise-grade features — businesses outgrow the platform as they scale beyond basic contact and task management.
  • No visible published pricing on the main website creates friction during evaluation; prospects cannot self-serve a cost comparison.
  • Lack of public API documentation beyond a single endpoint suggests integration options are narrow for teams with existing automation stacks.
  • Minimal marketing automation — no mention of email sequences, lead scoring, or workflow automation in available feature listings, which drives churn for growth-stage teams.

Choosing

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monday CRM

What's pulling them in

  • Users praise the board-based visual interface for making pipeline stages immediately legible to non-technical team members without CRM training.
  • The no-code automation builder lets sales ops teams create lead routing, stage updates, and email triggers without developer involvement.
  • Integration ecosystem connects to Slack, Gmail, Outlook, and Zapier with minimal configuration, reducing friction for teams already using these tools.
  • The flexible column system lets teams build custom CRM views — deal value, close date, lead source — without needing a developer or pre-defined schema.
  • Teams already using monday Work Management can layer CRM features onto existing boards rather than starting from scratch.

Object mapping

How Cirqll objects map to monday CRM

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

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

Cirqll

Customer

maps to

monday CRM

Person/Item in CRM Board

1:1
Fully supported

Cirqll Customer records map to Monday.com CRM Person Items within the Contacts board. We map first name, last name, email address, phone number, and physical address to the corresponding Person column types. The Person column in Monday.com CRM consolidates name and contact fields into a single structured field; we decompose Cirqll's flat name field into first and last name components during the transform phase. Custom properties on Cirqll Customers migrate as custom columns on the Monday.com Item. The Customer Create API endpoint on Cirqll is the only documented write endpoint; we use probe reads to verify field fidelity before the production migration.

Cirqll

Lead

maps to

monday CRM

Item in Lead Board

1:1
Fully supported

Cirqll Lead records map to Items in a dedicated Monday.com CRM Lead board. We map qualification status, source attribution, owner assignment, and lead score to Status, Text, Person (Assignee), and Number columns respectively. The Lead-to-Customer conversion history migrates as a linked activity note on the Item's Updates feed. Owner assignment resolves by email match to a Monday.com User; any unmatched owners go to a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision.

Cirqll

Task

maps to

monday CRM

Item in Task/Deal Board

1:1
Fully supported

Cirqll Task objects — including due date, assignee, priority flag, and completion status — map directly to Monday.com Items. The due date field maps to a Date column; assignee maps to Person column; priority maps to a Status column with values reflecting Cirqll's priority levels. Open and completed task states map to Status column values (e.g., Open, In Progress, Done) so the migration does not lose historical completion data.

Cirqll

Activity (Call, Email, Meeting)

maps to

monday CRM

Item Updates and Status Columns

1:1
Fully supported

Cirqll Activity records (calls, emails, meetings) map to Monday.com Item Updates with metadata preserved in custom columns. Call duration and disposition map to Number and Status columns; meeting title and attendee list map to Text and Person columns. Activity type is preserved as a Status label on the Item so that the full timeline is queryable in the new system. Activity timestamps set the Item's Creation Date to preserve historical ordering.

Cirqll

Note

maps to

monday CRM

Updates Feed and Text Column

1:1
Fully supported

Cirql Notes attached to Contacts or Leads migrate to the Monday.com Item's Updates feed as chronological entries with the original creation timestamp and author attribution. For notes with structured metadata (category, tags), we create a Text column that carries the category label so context is not lost in the flat updates feed.

Cirqll

Calendar Event

maps to

monday CRM

Item with Date and Person Columns

1:1
Fully supported

Cirqll Calendar Events migrate to Monday.com Items with Date column for event date and time, a Text column for title, and a Person column for attendees. All-day event flags map to a Checkbox column. Recurrence patterns (if present in Cirqll data) are preserved as text notes in the Item's Updates feed because Monday.com's native recurrence support applies to Items inside a calendar view, not as a separate field on the record.

Cirqll

Document (binary blob)

maps to

monday CRM

File Column on Item

1:1
Fully supported

Cirqll stores documents as binary attachments outside the standard API. We handle document migration as a secondary pass: we download files from Cirqll via the available download mechanism, map each file to the corresponding Contact or Lead Item in Monday.com, and attach via the File column type. Original filenames, sizes, and upload timestamps are preserved in Monday.com's file metadata. Version history does not transfer. This pass requires separate confirmation from the customer that their Monday.com plan supports file attachments.

Cirqll

User

maps to

monday CRM

User

1:1
Fully supported

Cirqll User accounts and their assignments to Leads, Tasks, and Activities migrate as owner mappings in Monday.com. We resolve Cirqll user email addresses to Monday.com User accounts by email match. Active versus inactive status carries forward. Role-based permission sets do not transfer because Monday.com CRM's permission model differs significantly from Cirqll's; we deliver a permission matrix recommendation as part of the handoff documentation.

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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Cirqll gotchas

High

100 requests per minute API rate limit

Medium

Sparse API schema documentation

Medium

Document blob handling requires separate pass

Low

No public pricing — tier limits unknown

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monday CRM gotchas

High

Subitems are not included in bulk exports

High

Daily API call limits vary sharply by plan

Medium

Legacy automations (Sentence Builder) are being deprecated

Medium

Excel and account exports only include table views

Low

Enterprise admins can disable non-admin exports

Pair-specific challenges

  • Cirqll 100 req/min rate limit constrains migration throughput

    Cirqll enforces a hard 100 requests per minute rate limit per client (documented at docs.api.cirqll.nl/rate-limiting). We chunk all migration batches into staggered intervals and cap concurrent threads to stay under this ceiling. Without pacing, a large export triggers HTTP 429 responses and stalls mid-migration. Our migration engine monitors response headers and backs off dynamically if 429s appear. This rate limit also means that large Cirqll datasets take proportionally longer to extract, extending the overall migration timeline.

  • Monday.com automations do not migrate — they must be rebuilt

    Monday.com's new automation builder (launched 2026) differs structurally from legacy automation builders. Third-party marketplace app automations do not appear in the new builder's action dropdown — they must be created from app templates. We do not migrate automations as code. We deliver a written inventory of every board, its column schema, and its automation triggers so the customer's admin can rebuild rules in Monday.com's automation engine. Cirqll had minimal automation, so the rebuild scope is typically small, but Monday.com's automation quota gates apply per plan.

  • Monday.com board structure must be designed before data loads

    Unlike Cirqll where CRM objects map directly to API objects, Monday.com requires boards to be designed before Items are created. The column types, Status values, and group structure determine how data is stored and queried. If board design changes after data is loaded, Items must be moved between boards or columns re-mapped — a disruptive correction. We design the destination board structure in a scoping phase and validate it in a sandbox migration before any production data moves.

  • Document blob export requires a separate pass with download-and-reupload

    Documents stored in Cirqll are binary attachments that do not export via the standard API endpoints. We flag this during scoping and handle document migration as a secondary pass using a download-and-reupload workflow, preserving original filenames and upload timestamps. Customers should verify their Monday.com plan supports file attachments before assuming full document parity, and confirm storage limits if document volume is significant.

  • Monday.com CRM lacks native email sequences and marketing automation

    Monday.com CRM does not include native email sequences, cadence management, or marketing automation as core features. Teams migrating from Cirqll (which also lacks these features) will not lose automation they depended on, but teams expecting Monday.com to fill this gap will need to add a separate sales engagement tool such as Lavender, Outreach, or Salesloft. We flag this gap in the handoff documentation and note that Monday.com's native email integration handles individual email tracking but not outbound sequence cadence.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Cirqll to monday CRM data migration

  1. Discovery and scoping

    We audit the Cirqll account across Customers, Leads, Tasks, Activities, Notes, Calendar Events, and documents. We extract record counts per object, sample field schemas via API probe reads (required because Cirqll's full schema is not publicly documented), and identify any custom properties. We simultaneously map the destination Monday.com CRM board structure: Contact board, Lead board, and task/project board with the column types that match Cirqll's field inventory. The scoping output is a written migration scope document with object counts, field mappings, and board designs for the customer to review and approve.

  2. Schema design and board configuration

    We design the Monday.com CRM workspace structure before any data loads. This includes creating boards (Contacts, Leads, and Tasks), configuring column types (Person, Status, Date, Text, Number, File, Checkbox) to match Cirqll's field inventory, setting up Status column values to match Cirqll's priority and stage labels, and configuring group-by views. If Monday.com CRM Person column types are used for contacts, we confirm the Person column field mapping against the Cirqll customer name and contact fields. Board design is validated in a staging environment before production configuration.

  3. Sandbox migration and reconciliation

    We run a full migration into a Monday.com test workspace using production-like data volume. The customer reconciles record counts (Customers in, Leads in, Tasks in, Activities in), spot-checks 20-30 random records against the Cirqll source, and validates column values, date formats, and assignee mappings. Any field mapping corrections — particularly around name decomposition, date format standardization, and status label alignment — happen here, not in production. The sandbox sign-off is a required gate before production migration begins.

  4. Owner reconciliation and User provisioning

    We extract every distinct Cirqll user referenced as an owner on Lead, Task, and Activity records and match by email against the Monday.com destination workspace's User list. Owners without a matching Monday.com User go to a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before record import resumes. Migration cannot proceed past this step because assignee fields must be valid User references in Monday.com.

  5. Production migration in dependency order

    We run production migration in record-dependency order with 100 req/min pacing from Cirqll's API. Customers load first (creating Monday.com Person Items or CRM board Items), then Leads (resolving assignee by email), then Tasks and Calendar Events, then Activities. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. Document migration runs as a secondary pass after all structured records are confirmed in Monday.com. We run delta checks between phases to catch any records modified during the migration window.

  6. Cutover, validation, and automation rebuild handoff

    We freeze writes to Cirqll during cutover, run a final delta migration of records modified during the migration window, then mark Monday.com CRM as the system of record. We deliver the board schema documentation, column mapping reference, and automation trigger inventory to the customer's admin team. We support a one-week hypercare window where we resolve any reconciliation issues raised by the sales team. We do not rebuild automations in Monday.com's automation engine; that work is scoped separately or handled by the customer's admin using the documentation we deliver.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Cirqll

Source

Strengths

  • Low-cost CRM with a 10-day free trial advertised on G2, reducing commitment risk for small teams.
  • Verified reviews highlight intuitive navigation and clear layout as differentiating usability factors.
  • Cloud-based with calendar sync means appointments and follow-ups stay attached to the relevant Contact record automatically.
  • Activity tracking across calls, emails, and meetings provides a shared history visible to all team members.

Weaknesses

  • Only 4–5 verified reviews across G2 and Capterra as of early 2026 — very limited social proof for an evaluation team to draw on.
  • No public pricing page found in the research; tier structure, per-seat costs, and feature gating are opaque without a sales conversation.
  • API surface appears narrow — only a single documented endpoint (Customer Create) and a Zapier integration exist, limiting custom automation options.
  • Limited customization — the platform lacks visible support for custom objects, custom fields, or workflow automation that growing teams typically require.
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monday CRM

Destination

Strengths

  • Board-based UI makes pipeline stages and deal progress visually obvious without training.
  • No-code automation builder requires no developer resources to create lead routing and stage-triggered actions.
  • Flexible column system supports custom CRM fields without schema changes or admin involvement.
  • Integrates natively with Slack, Gmail, Outlook, and Zapier with minimal configuration overhead.
  • Layered product means teams already on monday Work Management can add CRM without migrating existing data.

Weaknesses

  • No native Contacts object separate from Items — contacts are managed inside a CRM module's People feature.
  • Pipeline and deal relationships use a flat item model rather than a relational object model, making complex CRM associations awkward.
  • Automations are plan-gated (250 actions/month on Standard, 25,000 on Pro) and the legacy Recipe system is being deprecated.
  • Customization and advanced views (Chart, Formula, Dependency) are locked behind Pro and Enterprise tiers.
  • Per-seat pricing with non-refundable annual billing creates cost lock-in risk during migration.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Standard CRM migration. All 8 core objects map 1:1 between Cirqll and monday CRM.

B

Overall complexity

Standard migration

Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Cirqll and monday CRM.

  • Object compatibility

    A

    All 8 core objects map 1:1 between Cirqll and monday CRM.

  • 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

    Cirqll: 100 requests per minute per client (confirmed via docs.api.cirqll.nl/rate-limiting).

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

Estimator

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Most migrations land between one and two weeks for accounts under 5,000 Contacts, 2,000 Leads, and 3,000 Tasks with no document migration pass. Migrations with larger engagement histories (over 10,000 activity records), multiple board structures, or significant data-cleansing requirements extend to two to four weeks. Monday.com board design must be finalized before data loads, which adds a scoping phase but prevents costly re-migration corrections mid-project.

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