CRM migration

Migrate from ConSol to HubSpot

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

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ConSol

Source

HubSpot

Destination

HubSpot logo

Compatibility

100%

12 of 12

objects map 1:1 between ConSol and HubSpot.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

48–72 hours

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

ConSol CM is a German enterprise IT service management and case management platform combining BPM, CRM, and helpdesk functions across incident handling, complaint management, and service requests. Organizations running ConSol CM typically face a platform that resists integration with modern sales and marketing stacks, limits automation to ConSol-specific rules, and carries licensing costs tied to named users or modules rather than a unified seat model. HubSpot replaces this with a unified CRM where Contacts, Companies, Deals, and Tickets live in one object graph, automation lives in HubSpot Workflows, and the platform scales from Starter through Enterprise without per-module licensing shocks. FlitStack AI migrates ConSol CM objects to HubSpot equivalents: Cases and Incidents map to HubSpot Tickets, ConSol Contacts map to HubSpot Contacts, Companies map to HubSpot Companies, and SLA-related fields (response targets, resolution timers) surface as HubSpot custom ticket properties. Custom fields and process-critical attributes that have no native HubSpot equivalent are recreated as custom properties before the migration runs. The migration uses scoped read access against the ConSol API to extract data without locking your team out, followed by a delta-pickup window capturing any records modified during the cutover window. Workflows, automations, and rule sets built in ConSol CM do not transfer — those must be rebuilt as HubSpot Workflows, and we provide a workflow definition export to accelerate that rebuild.

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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ConSol

What's pushing teams away

  • Limited integration with external CRM systems noted as a frustration in G2 reviews, with users unable to connect ConSol CM to their primary customer platforms.
  • Complex feature set and steep learning curve reported in G2 feedback, with users feeling overwhelmed by information density during onboarding.
  • Perpetual licensing and enterprise pricing structure makes the platform costly for smaller organizations evaluating alternatives.
  • Vendor lock-in concerns with proprietary German-developed platform motivating organizations to evaluate international alternatives with broader ecosystem support.

Choosing

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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 ConSol objects map to HubSpot

Each row shows how a ConSol 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.

ConSol

Contact

maps to

HubSpot

Contact

1:1
Fully supported

ConSol Contacts map directly to HubSpot Contacts. Name, email, phone, job title, and address fields carry across as HubSpot standard properties. Owner resolution happens by email match against HubSpot users. Any ConSol contact fields that do not have a HubSpot standard equivalent are flagged for custom property creation before migration runs.

ConSol

Contact Role

maps to

HubSpot

Contact (single-line text property)

1:1
Fully supported

ConSol supports role-labelled contact-to-company associations (e.g., Technical Contact, Billing Contact). HubSpot's native association model stores a single role label per contact-company pair. When multiple roles exist, we surface all labels in a custom text property; your admin decides how to consolidate.

ConSol

Company / Account

maps to

HubSpot

Company

1:1
Fully supported

ConSol Company records map to HubSpot Companies. Name, domain/website, industry, employee count, and annual revenue fields map to HubSpot standard properties. Parent-company hierarchies in ConSol map to HubSpot's Parent Company field. Multi-level hierarchies are flattened to a single parent reference to match HubSpot's data model.

ConSol

Case / Incident

maps to

HubSpot

Ticket

1:1
Fully supported

ConSol Case and Incident records map to HubSpot Tickets. The original ConSol case number is preserved in Source_System_Case_Number__c for traceability. Ticket subject, description, status, and priority carry across; close date maps from ConSol's resolution timestamp. Custom case fields require pre-created HubSpot custom properties to avoid data loss during migration.

ConSol

Service Request

maps to

HubSpot

Ticket (separate pipeline)

1:1
Fully supported

ConSol Service Requests are distinct from Incidents. We map them to a separate HubSpot Ticket Pipeline so your team can differentiate request-type tickets from incident-type tickets using pipeline-level reporting rather than a single pick-list value. Each pipeline can have its own stages, SLA targets, and assignment rules aligned to the original ConSol workflow.

ConSol

Complaint

maps to

HubSpot

Ticket (separate pipeline or custom field)

1:1
Fully supported

ConSol Complaint records route to a dedicated HubSpot Ticket pipeline or a custom Complaint__c boolean field depending on your reporting requirements. We confirm the routing preference during the sample migration review before the full run. The pipeline approach enables separate SLA tracking and team assignment for complaint handling versus standard service requests.

ConSol

SLA Response Time

maps to

HubSpot

Ticket (custom property)

1:1
Fully supported

ConSol's SLA response-time field has no native HubSpot equivalent. We create SLA_Response_Deadline__c as a custom datetime property on the Ticket object. Note: SLA monitoring requires HubSpot Service Hub Professional — Starter and Basic tiers display the field but do not trigger SLA alerts.

ConSol

SLA Resolution Time

maps to

HubSpot

Ticket (custom property)

1:1
Fully supported

ConSol's resolution-time SLA field migrates as SLA_Resolution_Deadline__c. Combined with the response deadline, these two custom fields allow your team to report on SLA adherence in HubSpot dashboards even at Starter tier, though active breach alerting requires Service Hub Professional. Custom workflows can be configured to send notifications when resolution deadlines approach or pass.

ConSol

Contract / SLA Agreement

maps to

HubSpot

Deal

1:1
Fully supported

ConSol contracts and SLA agreements with commercial terms map to HubSpot Deals. The contract name becomes the Deal name; the contract value or SLA tier maps to Amount. Deal stage reflects contract status (Active, Pending Renewal, Expired). Custom properties on the Deal capture additional SLA terms that don't fit HubSpot's standard deal fields.

ConSol

Custom Case Fields

maps to

HubSpot

Ticket (custom properties)

1:1
Fully supported

ConSol CM custom fields attached to cases (e.g., bug tracking identifiers, regulatory categories, cost center codes) require pre-created custom properties in HubSpot before migration. We generate the property creation plan based on the ConSol schema export and deliver it as a HubSpot setup checklist.

ConSol

Attachment / File

maps to

HubSpot

File (HubSpot file storage)

1:1
Fully supported

ConSol file attachments on cases download and re-upload to HubSpot's file storage. File size limits per the destination apply. Inline images or embedded documents in case notes are extracted and re-hosted as separate HubSpot files. Attachment metadata including original file names and upload dates are preserved in HubSpot's file properties.

ConSol

Activity / Communication Log

maps to

HubSpot

Engagement (Timeline)

1:1
Fully supported

ConSol case communication history — emails, call logs, internal notes — maps to HubSpot Engagements on the contact and ticket timelines. Original timestamps and owner email preserved so the HubSpot timeline reflects the full case history. Engagement type (email, call, note) maps to HubSpot's engagement type property for filtering and reporting.

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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ConSol gotchas

High

REST API documentation is fragmented across multiple moved URLs

High

Workflow automations and SLA rules are not API-accessible

Medium

Attachment extraction requires a secondary pipeline pass

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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

  • HubSpot ticket pipelines replace ConSol's separate Case, Incident, and Service Request objects

    ConSol CM uses three distinct object types for service management — Cases, Incidents, and Service Requests — each with its own numbering scheme and workflow routing. HubSpot's Service Hub uses a single Ticket object scoped by pipelines. We map Incidents to one HubSpot ticket pipeline and Service Requests to a second pipeline, but the ConSol object-type distinction does not exist in HubSpot's data model. Pipeline-level reporting in HubSpot replaces the ConSol object-level split. If your team relies on ConSol's object-type reporting for SLA credit calculations or contractual reporting, those reports need to be rebuilt against HubSpot pipeline-level data before go-live.

  • SLA field monitoring requires HubSpot Service Hub Professional — Starter and Basic tiers display but do not alert

    ConSol CM carries SLA response and resolution targets as native system fields with breach-flagging. HubSpot's native SLA monitoring feature is gated behind Service Hub Professional. We migrate ConSol's SLA deadline values as custom datetime fields that appear on every HubSpot ticket regardless of tier — your team can see the deadline in the ticket record. However, HubSpot's automated SLA breach notifications, escalation workflows, and SLA report dashboards only activate at Service Hub Professional. We flag this as a configuration requirement before migration and can provide a custom workflow that approximates SLA alerting at lower tiers using HubSpot's workflow engine.

  • ConSol automation rules, routing logic, and process triggers do not transfer to HubSpot Workflows

    ConSol CM's automation engine uses ConSol-specific rule definitions, routing conditions, and escalation triggers that have no export format compatible with HubSpot Workflows or any other CRM. Every automation your team built in ConSol — auto-assignment rules, escalation timers, status-change triggers, SLA breach notifications — must be rebuilt in HubSpot's workflow builder. FlitStack AI exports your ConSol automation definitions as a structured reference document listing each rule's trigger, condition, and action so your HubSpot admin can rebuild them in sequence. This is manual work your team needs to budget for.

  • Contact role labels from ConSol's N:N associations collapse to a single label per contact-company pair

    ConSol CM lets you assign multiple role labels to a single contact-company association — a contact might simultaneously be a Technical Contact, a Billing Contact, and an Executive Sponsor on the same account. HubSpot's contact-company association model stores one label per contact-company pair. We migrate all role labels as a comma-separated text string into a custom property (ConSol_Contact_Roles__c) so the information is preserved. For teams that need structured role data, we can alternatively create a HubSpot custom object for Contact Roles — this requires your admin to define the schema before migration lands.

  • ConSol's custom case fields require pre-creation in HubSpot before migration data can land

    ConSol CM allows administrators to attach arbitrary custom fields to Case records — regulatory categories, cost center codes, bug tracking IDs, and other domain-specific attributes. HubSpot's ticket schema must have equivalent custom properties created before records can import, or the migration engine skips unmapped fields silently. We analyze the ConSol schema export, generate a HubSpot property creation checklist with correct data types (pick-list, datetime, number, single-line text), and deliver it before the migration run. Properties are created in HubSpot by your admin (or by FlitStack during the setup phase) so no data is dropped on import.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful ConSol to HubSpot data migration

  1. Extract ConSol CM schema and define HubSpot property creation plan

    FlitStack AI connects to the ConSol CM API or database export to retrieve the full object schema — all standard and custom fields on Contact, Company, Case, Incident, Service Request, and Contract objects. We cross-reference the ConSol field inventory against HubSpot's standard properties and generate a HubSpot property creation checklist. This checklist includes each custom field's data type, pick-list values for value-mapped fields, and the target object. Your HubSpot admin creates these properties before the migration run so no source fields are silently dropped on import.

  2. Resolve ConSol owners and contacts by email against HubSpot users

    Every record in ConSol CM carries an owner or assigned-agent field. We match ConSol owner email addresses against HubSpot user email addresses to populate the hs_ticket_owner and hs_ticket_state fields. Records whose owner email has no matching HubSpot user are flagged in a pre-migration reconciliation report. Your team either invites the unmatched owner to HubSpot or assigns their ConSol records to a fallback owner before the migration run. No record lands in HubSpot without a resolved owner.

  3. Migrate companies and contacts before tickets to satisfy HubSpot's foreign-key requirements

    HubSpot requires that a Company exists before a Contact can associate to it, and that a Contact exists before a Ticket can link to it via the contact property. We sequence the migration: Companies first, then Contacts with their company associations, then Cases mapped to HubSpot Tickets with contact and company lookups resolved. This ordering ensures ticket-to-contact links resolve correctly and eliminates orphaned records in the HubSpot database.

  4. Run a sample migration with field-level diff before the full data run

    FlitStack AI extracts a representative slice — typically 100 to 500 records spanning contacts, companies, tickets, and SLA fields — and loads it into a HubSpot staging portal. We generate a field-level diff report comparing source values against destination values for every mapped field. You verify SLA deadline formatting, ticket priority mapping, and owner resolution before the full run commits. Any field mapping errors surface here, not at cutover.

  5. Execute full migration with delta-pickup window for in-flight records

    The full ConSol CM migration runs against HubSpot. A delta-pickup window — typically 24 to 48 hours — captures any records created or modified in ConSol CM during the migration cutover. FlitStack's audit log records every insert, update, and association link so your team can replay or rollback if reconciliation identifies unexpected gaps. One-click rollback is available if post-migration validation fails a defined acceptance threshold.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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ConSol

Source

Strengths

  • Combines help desk ticketing with BPM workflow capabilities in a single platform.
  • Intelligent auto-routing assigns requests to appropriate support tiers automatically.
  • ISO 27001 certified cloud deployment meets enterprise security standards.
  • Established in 1984 with a track record of large enterprise deployments in Germany.

Weaknesses

  • Limited public API documentation makes automated data extraction and migration planning difficult.
  • Integration capabilities with external CRMs are constrained, limiting hybrid workflow setups.
  • Steep onboarding curve requires significant training investment before teams become productive.
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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 ConSol 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

    ConSol: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

Estimator

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Most ConSol CM to HubSpot migrations complete within 48 to 72 hours of clock time for under 50,000 records. Enterprise setups with large case volumes, multiple ConSol object types (Incidents, Service Requests, Complaints), or extensive custom SLA fields extend the timeline to 5 to 10 business days. The longest planning step is building the HubSpot property creation plan for custom fields — that work runs before any data moves.

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