CRM migration

Migrate from Delivra to Freshsales

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

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Delivra

Source

Freshsales

Destination

Freshsales logo

Compatibility

50%

5 of 10

objects map 1:1 between Delivra and Freshsales.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

3-5 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Delivra to Freshsales is a shift from a marketing-automation-centric platform built around contacts, segments, and campaigns to a sales CRM built around Leads, Contacts, Accounts, and Deals. The most significant structural difference is Delivra's Custom Tables with 1:1, 1:many, and many:many relationships, which do not have a direct equivalent in Freshsales and require flattening into standard contact properties, custom fields, or a separate lookup table. We extract the full Delivra schema including relationship types, denormalize where necessary, and map to Freshsales Contacts with custom fields and the native Products/Pricebook model where applicable. Lead scoring values migrate as custom numeric fields. Automated Workflows, Segments, Email Templates, and Forms do not migrate as code; we deliver written inventories of each with Freshsales equivalents. Freshsales's built-in phone, email, Freddy AI scoring, and per-seat pricing model represent the operational shift teams are making when leaving Delivra.

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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Delivra

What's pushing teams away

  • Email client compatibility issues with Google Mail, Microsoft Outlook, and Outlook Portal cause rendering problems that require additional testing and workarounds across campaigns.
  • Automation complexity becomes a barrier as teams scale—users report that building and maintaining sophisticated workflows requires significant time investment and technical understanding.
  • Integration ecosystem limitations make it difficult to connect Delivra with the full stack of tools teams use, particularly for custom or niche CRM integrations beyond standard connectors.
  • Some users find the platform challenging to navigate initially, with a learning curve that slows adoption for new team members joining mid-campaign.
  • Pricing at scale becomes a consideration—costs increase significantly with larger contact lists, prompting teams to evaluate alternatives when they outgrow mid-tier plans.

Choosing

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Freshsales

What's pulling them in

  • Lowest barrier to entry among major CRMs — the free tier supports up to 3 users and includes core CRM functionality before committing to per-seat pricing.
  • Built-in chat, email, and phone reduce reliance on third-party integrations for basic sales communication and contact management.
  • Freddy AI contact scoring and deal insights are included on Pro plans at a lower price than comparable HubSpot tiers.
  • Kanban pipeline views across Contacts, Accounts, and Deals provide visual deal management without requiring custom configuration.
  • Integration with the broader Freshworks ecosystem (Freshdesk, Freshchat, Freshservice) reduces tool sprawl for teams already using Freshworks.

Object mapping

How Delivra objects map to Freshsales

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

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

Delivra

Contact

maps to

Freshsales

Lead or Contact

1:many
Fully supported

Delivra contacts with lifecycle stages indicating early-stage prospects (subscriber, lead) map to Freshsales Lead. Contacts with lifecycle stages indicating sales-qualified or customer status map to Freshsales Contact tied to an Account. The split is computed using Delivra's lifecycle_stage property and stored as a custom text field original_lifecycle_stage__c on the destination record for audit. Email address is the dedupe key for both Lead and Contact migration.

Delivra

Contact

maps to

Freshsales

Account + Contact

lossy
Fully supported

Delivra contact records that represent company-level information (organization name, industry, employee count stored as contact properties) are mapped to Freshsales Account records, with the individual contact mapped to a Contact record linked via AccountId. We extract the primary organization identifier from Delivra contact properties and create the Account before the Contact insert to satisfy the lookup dependency.

Delivra

Custom Table

maps to

Freshsales

Contact Custom Fields

lossy
Fully supported

Delivra Custom Tables with 1:1 relationships to contacts flatten into Freshsales custom fields on the Contact object. We extract each table's column schema, map data types to Freshsales field types (text, number, date, dropdown, checkbox), and import the values as custom field data. This approach preserves the data without the relational structure, which Freshsales does not support at the Contact level for external table references.

Delivra

Custom Table (1:many)

maps to

Freshsales

Custom Object or Product

1:many
Fully supported

Delivra Custom Tables with 1:many relationships (e.g., contacts linked to multiple subscriptions, properties, or contracts) require a split. We flatten these to a Freshsales custom object with a lookup to Contact, storing the relationship as a denormalized contact_id field. For product-like data (items, SKUs, pricing), we evaluate mapping to Freshsales Product2 records and Pricebook entries if the table structure aligns with a standard product model.

Delivra

Campaign

maps to

Freshsales

Contact Custom Fields or Note

1:1
Fully supported

Delivra campaign records include name, status, and targeting criteria. We extract campaign membership data as a custom multi-select picklist on Contact capturing campaign names, or as a Note attached to the Contact record. Freshsales does not have a native campaign marketing object at the CRM tier, so the campaign context is preserved as descriptive metadata rather than a first-class object.

Delivra

Segment

maps to

Freshsales

Contact Custom Fields (Tag-style)

lossy
Fully supported

Delivra segment definitions use filter conditions on contact properties. We extract the segment membership for each contact and store it as a custom multi-select picklist on the Freshsales Contact. The segment criteria logic is documented in a written inventory for the customer to re-implement as Freshsales static lists or workflow filters.

Delivra

Lead Scoring

maps to

Freshsales

Contact Custom Fields (numeric)

1:1
Mapping required

Delivra lead scoring values (point-based scores from standard or advanced scoring) migrate as a custom numeric field score__c on Freshsales Contact. The scoring model rules and weight definitions are documented in a written handoff so the customer's admin can re-implement the model using Freshsales Freddy AI scoring on Pro and above or custom workflow rules on Growth.

Delivra

Engagement Data

maps to

Freshsales

Task and Event

1:1
Mapping required

Delivra click tracking, open tracking, and engagement metrics associated with contacts migrate as Freshsales Task records. Email opens and clicks become tasks of type Email; form submissions become tasks of type form_submission with custom fields for the form name. Activity timestamps are preserved as ActivityDate on the task. Freshsales's native activity timeline displays these records in chronological order against the contact.

Delivra

Email Template

maps to

Freshsales

Freshsales Email Templates

1:1
Fully supported

Delivra email templates built with the drag-and-drop editor are extracted as HTML and converted to Freshsales email templates. We extract template content, subject line, and personalization tokens. Complex conditional content and dynamic blocks that rely on Delivra-specific syntax are flagged as requiring manual re-creation in Freshsales's template editor. The written template inventory identifies which templates are ready for direct import versus which require rebuild.

Delivra

User

maps to

Freshsales

User

1:1
Fully supported

Delivra user accounts with role-based permissions migrate by email match to Freshsales User records. Delivra role definitions (Account Admin, Custom Roles, Team Collaboration) are documented in a written permissions matrix that the customer's Freshsales admin uses to assign Freshsales profiles and permission sets. Unlimited user seats on Delivra map to a per-seat Freshsales license count during migration scoping.

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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Delivra gotchas

High

API specifications are not publicly documented

Medium

Custom Tables require schema-level mapping

Medium

Contact-based pricing at migration time

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Freshsales gotchas

Medium

Freddy AI is Pro-tier only despite heavy marketing

High

Post-migration emails and sequences are disabled

Medium

Bot session credits are a one-time 500-session allocation

Medium

Phone credits charged per minute with no cap

Low

File storage limits scale with plan tier

Pair-specific challenges

  • Delivra API specifications are not publicly documented

    Delivra does not publish its API reference in the public knowledge base. The SFTP setup requires direct configuration by Delivra Support, and technical schema verification cannot be self-served during scoping. We coordinate with Delivra Support early in discovery to obtain the field names, endpoints, and data types before migration design begins. This adds a discovery step that is not required for platforms with public API documentation, and it can extend the initial scoping phase by one to two weeks if Delivra Support response time is slow.

  • Custom Tables require schema-level mapping before any data moves

    Delivra's Custom Tables with relational structures do not map directly to Freshsales objects. We extract the full table schema including relationship types and foreign key fields. 1:1 tables flatten into Freshsales Contact custom fields. 1:many tables split into a Freshsales custom object with a Contact lookup. Many:many tables require a junction object or denormalization, which adds mapping complexity. This phase is completed before any record migration begins, and it is not required for migrations that only move contacts without custom tables.

  • Freshsales Lead-to-Contact conversion mapping must be configured before import

    Freshsales requires a Lead conversion mapping to define which Contact fields, Account fields, and Deal fields are populated when a Lead is converted. We configure this mapping during schema setup using Delivra contact properties as the source of truth. If the customer has not defined a lead conversion workflow in Delivra, we document the recommended mapping and apply it during migration to ensure that no contact data is lost during the split into Lead and Contact records.

  • Freshsales workflows and sequences do not accept migrated data as triggers

    Freshsales Workflows trigger on record creation and update events, not on bulk data imports by default. When we import records via CSV or API, the workflow trigger conditions may not fire for historical records. We document which workflows depend on migrated data as the trigger source and recommend that the customer reviews each active workflow to confirm it will function correctly for day-forward records, or that they enable workflow re-evaluation rules for the migration window.

  • Email template conditional content does not migrate as functional code

    Delivra email templates with conditional content blocks, dynamic personalization tokens, and conditional rendering rely on Delivra's template engine. We extract the HTML output and convert it to Freshsales email template format where possible. Templates with complex conditional logic (if/else branching on contact properties, dynamic image switching, personalized product blocks) are flagged as requiring manual rebuild in Freshsales's template editor. The template inventory we deliver identifies every template with conditional logic and the specific rebuild steps.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Delivra to Freshsales data migration

  1. Discovery and schema extraction

    We audit the source Delivra account across contacts, Custom Tables (including relationship types), segments, lead scoring models, campaigns, email templates, and active workflows. We extract the full Custom Table schema including column names, data types, and relationship definitions. We also obtain the API specifications and SFTP credentials by coordinating with Delivra Support since these are not self-serve. The discovery output is a written migration scope document covering record counts, schema map, and the split logic for contacts into Freshsales Leads and Contacts.

  2. Freshsales destination schema setup

    We provision the Freshsales destination schema before any data moves. This includes creating custom fields on Contact and Account to receive flattened Custom Table data, creating custom numeric fields for lead scoring values, creating custom picklist fields for segment membership, and configuring the Lead conversion mapping using Delivra contact properties as source fields. If the customer requires custom modules (Enterprise tier), we provision these with the required lookup relationships. The schema is validated in a Freshsales sandbox or trial account before production migration begins.

  3. Data cleansing and test migration

    We export contacts from Delivra via SFTP or API, deduplicate by email address, and resolve any orphaned records from incomplete Custom Table relationships. We run a test migration importing a sample set of records (typically 100-500 records) into the Freshsales destination to validate field mapping, confirm custom field creation, and verify the Lead-Contact split logic. The customer reviews the test output and signs off before the full production migration begins.

  4. Production migration in dependency order

    We run production migration in record-dependency order: Accounts first (from Delivra contact organization properties), then Contacts (with the Lifecycle Stage split applied), then Leads (for early-stage contacts), then Custom Table data (flattened into custom fields or custom objects), then engagement history as Tasks and Events. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. We use Freshsales CSV import for structured records and the Freshsales API for custom object inserts.

  5. Workflow and automation inventory delivery

    We deliver a written inventory of every active Delivra Automated Workflow and Segment. For each workflow, we document the trigger, conditions, actions, and recommended Freshsales Workflow equivalent. For each segment, we document the filter criteria and recommend Freshsales static list or filter logic. Email templates are inventoried with a conversion status (ready for import, requires rebuild, conditional content flagged). The customer uses this inventory to rebuild automations in Freshsales post-migration.

  6. Cutover and validation

    We freeze Delivra writes during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records created or modified during the migration window, then enable Freshsales as the system of record. We validate record counts across all objects, spot-check 25-50 migrated records against the Delivra source, and confirm that the Lead-Contact split is correct for all lifecycle stages. We deliver a final migration report with record counts, error logs, and the handoff checklist. We support a three-day hypercare window for reconciliation issues.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Delivra

Source

Strengths

  • Generous pricing with Starter tier at $29/month for 500 contacts and no per-seat user limits across all plans.
  • Excellent customer support reputation with 4.8/5 Capterra rating and high-touch guided onboarding.
  • Built-in SMS marketing alongside email in a single platform, avoiding the need for separate SMS tool integration.
  • Custom Tables with relational data support enable sophisticated data modeling for complex contact relationships.
  • Drag-and-drop editors and visual workflow builders reduce technical barriers for non-developer users.

Weaknesses

  • Email client compatibility issues require additional testing for Gmail, Outlook, and Outlook Portal rendering.
  • Automation builder complexity increases significantly for sophisticated multi-branch workflows.
  • Integration ecosystem is limited compared to broader CRM platforms, restricting connectivity with niche tools.
  • Contact-based pricing model means costs scale directly with list size, which can become expensive at high volumes.
  • API documentation is not publicly available on the knowledge base, requiring direct contact with support to obtain technical specifications.
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Freshsales

Destination

Strengths

  • Generous free tier for small teams with core CRM functionality without per-seat costs.
  • All-in-one sales CRM with built-in telephony, chat, and email reducing third-party tool dependency.
  • Freddy AI contact scoring and deal predictions available on Pro tier.
  • Multiple pipeline views with Kanban and list options across all plans.

Weaknesses

  • Reports lack depth compared to competitors like HubSpot, with limited customization options.
  • Integration setup is poorly documented with no clear guides for connecting third-party tools.
  • AI features gated behind $39/user/month Pro tier despite marketing emphasis on Freddy AI.
  • Bot sessions limited to 500 one-time allocation with no monthly refresh.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Standard CRM migration. 2 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 Delivra and Freshsales.

  • Object compatibility

    B

    2 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

    Delivra: Not publicly documented in available documentation.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    A

    Delivra exposes a bulk API — large-volume migrations stream efficiently.

Estimator

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Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.

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Most migrations land between three and five weeks for accounts under 10,000 contacts with one Custom Table and no complex segment definitions. Migrations with multiple relational Custom Tables, engagement histories exceeding 200,000 records, or accounts requiring Freshsales Enterprise custom modules move to eight to twelve weeks because of schema design, relationship denormalization, and the additional discovery step to obtain Delivra API specifications from their support team.

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