CRM migration

Migrate from eTrigue to HubSpot

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

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eTrigue

Source

HubSpot

Destination

HubSpot logo

Compatibility

92%

12 of 13

objects map 1:1 between eTrigue and HubSpot.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

48–72 hours

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

eTrigue DemandCenter centers on Prospects, Campaigns, and Behavioral Scoring with drag-and-drop campaign builders and lead nurturing sequences. HubSpot's model centers on Contacts, Companies, Deals, and a lifecycle_stage property that tracks contact progression from Lead through Customer. The migration carries all prospect records, company associations, custom field values, engagement history (emails, page views, form submissions), and scoring data into HubSpot's object graph. Campaign membership, campaign scores, and activity scores migrate as HubSpot custom properties on the contact record. Campaign workflows and automation sequences do not migrate — eTrigue's campaign-centric logic requires manual rebuild in HubSpot's Workflows tool or Sales Hub sequences. eTrigue's landing pages and forms are exported as reference assets; HubSpot-native forms and pages must be rebuilt. FlitStack uses eTrigue's API to extract all prospect records, campaign data, and activity history, transforms field names to HubSpot's camelCase property conventions, and loads via HubSpot's Contacts API and bulk import with field-level validation before the full migration commits.

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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eTrigue

What's pushing teams away

  • Workflow and automation capabilities are considered limited compared to broader platforms, with one reviewer noting they switched specifically because 'workflow and automation capabilities were a bit limited compared to other software on the market.'
  • UX and UI frustrations accumulate over time — users report 'minor UX frustrations when it came to renaming or reorganizing things,' creating friction for power users managing many campaigns.
  • The platform is perceived as better suited for small to medium teams, leading larger organizations to migrate toward enterprise-grade marketing automation with richer data models.
  • Pricing is opaque and quoted per-demo, which creates uncertainty and drives some buyers toward platforms with published tier-based pricing.

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 eTrigue objects map to HubSpot

Each row shows how a eTrigue 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.

eTrigue

Prospect

maps to

HubSpot

Contact

1:1
Fully supported

eTrigue Prospects map directly to HubSpot Contacts. All standard contact properties (name, email, phone, title, address) migrate as HubSpot contact properties. eTrigue prospects without a company association land in HubSpot as contacts with no CompanyId — your team assigns them in HubSpot after migration or during a post-migration cleanup pass.

eTrigue

Prospect

maps to

HubSpot

Lead

1:many
Fully supported

eTrigue Prospects can be split into HubSpot Leads and Contacts based on lifecycle indicators. If eTrigue tracks a 'stage' or 'status' field that indicates early engagement (e.g., 'Prospect', 'Marketing Qualified'), those records land as HubSpot Leads. Records with closed-won or customer indicators route to HubSpot Contacts. The split rule is configurable based on your eTrigue property values before migration runs.

eTrigue

Prospect (company properties)

maps to

HubSpot

Company

1:1
Fully supported

eTrigue stores company name, domain, industry, and employee count as properties on the Prospect record. We extract these into HubSpot's Company object, deduplicating by company name or domain. The resulting Company record links to the Contact via the HubSpot company_id property. If the same company appears across multiple Prospects, we create one Company record and associate all related Contacts.

eTrigue

Campaign

maps to

HubSpot

Campaign (HubSpot marketing campaign)

1:1
Fully supported

eTrigue Campaigns map to HubSpot marketing Campaigns as reference records. Campaign names, descriptions, start dates, and status migrate. Campaign membership — which Prospects were in each campaign — becomes a custom contact property (e.g., 'eTrigue_Campaign_Name') or a HubSpot static list membership, preserving the marketing attribution trail.

eTrigue

Campaign Score

maps to

HubSpot

Custom Number Property

1:1
Fully supported

eTrigue's Campaign Score is a numeric value per Prospect reflecting engagement with campaign content. HubSpot has no native Campaign Score equivalent — we create a custom number property (e.g., 'eTrigue_Campaign_Score__c' or using HubSpot's property naming) on the Contact record and migrate the static score value. HubSpot's own lead scoring must be configured separately if needed.

eTrigue

Activity Score

maps to

HubSpot

Custom Number Property

1:1
Fully supported

eTrigue's Activity Score reflects prospect engagement across emails, page visits, and form submissions. This migrates as a static custom number property on the HubSpot contact — the underlying scoring logic is not replicated. HubSpot's engagement scoring (if enabled in your tier) replaces this behavior going forward.

eTrigue

Email Activity (sends, opens, clicks)

maps to

HubSpot

Engagement Timeline (email records)

1:1
Fully supported

eTrigue's email engagement records — sent, opened, clicked — migrate as HubSpot engagement timeline entries on the contact record. Each engagement event creates a logged email activity with the original timestamp, campaign name, and subject line preserved. The HubSpot timeline shows this as historical engagement data alongside any HubSpot-native email activities.

eTrigue

Page Views

maps to

HubSpot

HubSpot Timeline Events (page view records)

1:1
Fully supported

eTrigue's page view tracking per Prospect migrates as HubSpot timeline events. Each page view records the URL, page title, and timestamp as a contact timeline entry. The data preserves the prospect's behavioral history for sales follow-up context even though HubSpot's own tracking pixel will generate fresh page view events going forward.

eTrigue

Form Submissions

maps to

HubSpot

HubSpot Form Submissions (timeline events)

1:1
Fully supported

eTrigue form submission records — including form name, submitted fields, and timestamp — migrate as HubSpot contact timeline events of type 'form submission.' The submission data is preserved for reference even though the actual form routing logic (eTrigue's form-to-campaign mapping) must be rebuilt in HubSpot Forms and Workflows.

eTrigue

Custom Prospect Fields

maps to

HubSpot

HubSpot Custom Contact Properties

1:1
Fully supported

eTrigue's Boolean, text, number, and date custom fields on Prospects map to HubSpot custom contact properties with equivalent field types. Boolean fields become HubSpot checkboxes. Date fields migrate using HubSpot's date property format. The property name in HubSpot uses camelCase (e.g., 'preferredContactMethod') matching HubSpot's naming conventions. We create the property in HubSpot before the migration run if it doesn't already exist.

eTrigue

Campaign Workflows / Sequences

maps to

HubSpot

HubSpot Workflows / Sales Hub Sequences

1:1
Fully supported

eTrigue campaign workflows — including time-based email nurture sequences, behavioral triggers, and enrollment rules — have no direct equivalent in HubSpot that preserves the existing logic. We export eTrigue workflow definitions as a reference document for your HubSpot admin to rebuild in HubSpot's Workflows tool (for CRM-level automation) or Sales Hub Sequences (for outbound sales sequences). This is disclosed honestly and included in the migration scope as a rebuild reference, not as data that migrates.

eTrigue

Landing Pages

maps to

HubSpot

Exported HTML Assets + HubSpot Pages (rebuild)

1:1
Mapping required

eTrigue's campaign landing pages export as static HTML reference files. HubSpot's CMS Pages are a separate product with a different editor and hosting model — eTrigue landing pages cannot be imported directly. We deliver the exported HTML so your team can port content, but the pages must be rebuilt in HubSpot CMS or imported into your preferred landing page tool.

eTrigue

Dynamic Lists / Segments

maps to

HubSpot

HubSpot Static Lists / Smart Lists

1:1
Fully supported

eTrigue dynamic lists based on behavioral rules (e.g., 'opened any campaign in last 30 days') have no direct HubSpot equivalent that preserves the dynamic logic. We migrate the static snapshot of list membership (the contacts that matched at export time) to HubSpot static lists. The dynamic rule itself must be rebuilt using HubSpot Workflows or list filters.

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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eTrigue gotchas

High

No public API means migration relies on CSV export only

Medium

Opt-Out status encoding in Status field export

Medium

Lead Score sub-components are five separate fields, not one

Medium

Partner program data stored in custom fields, not a native object

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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

  • eTrigue campaign workflows have no HubSpot equivalent and must be rebuilt from scratch

    eTrigue campaign workflows — including time-delayed email nurture sequences, behavioral enrollment triggers, and lead routing rules — are stored as eTrigue-specific automation logic that cannot export in a form HubSpot can import. HubSpot's Workflows tool and Sales Hub Sequences use a different data model and trigger semantics. We export your eTrigue workflow definitions as a reference document so your HubSpot admin can rebuild them, but the automation logic itself does not migrate. This is the highest-impact gap in the migration scope and typically requires 1–3 weeks of configuration work depending on workflow complexity.

  • eTrigue's company data lives on the Prospect record and requires object splitting in HubSpot

    eTrigue stores company name, domain, industry, and employee count as properties directly on the Prospect record. HubSpot has a separate Company object that Contacts associate with via a company_id lookup. During migration, we extract eTrigue's prospect-level company data into HubSpot Company records and link them back to the migrated contacts. This means Prospects who share the same company name in eTrigue will be deduplicated into a single HubSpot Company — if your eTrigue data has variants or typos in company names, the HubSpot Company object may merge contacts that should be separate. We flag duplicate company names before migration for your review.

  • Campaign scores and activity scores migrate as static values, not live calculations

    eTrigue's Campaign Score and Activity Score are dynamic values that update as prospects engage with campaigns and content. In HubSpot, these cannot migrate as live calculations — they become static custom number properties on the contact record. The numeric value at migration time is preserved, but HubSpot will not recalculate them from eTrigue's scoring formula. If you rely on scoring thresholds for routing or prioritization, those thresholds need to be re-evaluated against the migrated static values and potentially adjusted since HubSpot's own lead scoring (if enabled) uses different signals and weights.

  • HubSpot lifecycle_stage has a fixed picklist that may not match eTrigue's status values

    HubSpot's lifecycle_stage property accepts a fixed set of values: Subscriber, Lead, Marketing Qualified Lead, Sales Qualified Lead, Opportunity, Customer, Evangelist, and Other. eTrigue's prospect status field often uses different labels (e.g., 'Inquiry', 'Nurturing', 'Sales Ready') that don't map 1:1 to HubSpot's picklist. We configure a value-mapping table during planning: each eTrigue status value gets assigned to the closest HubSpot lifecycle_stage. Records land in HubSpot with the assigned lifecycle value. If no good match exists, we default to 'Lead' and flag for your review. The mapping decision is documented and applied consistently across all affected records.

  • eTrigue landing pages cannot be imported into HubSpot CMS and require rebuilding

    eTrigue's campaign landing pages are built in eTrigue's editor with campaign-specific tracking tied to campaign enrollment rules. These pages export as HTML files but HubSpot CMS uses a different page model with its own template system, hosting, and page-level analytics. The HTML content can be used as reference for rebuilding in HubSpot Pages, but the pages themselves do not migrate as functional HubSpot pages. Campaign-to-page associations and page-view tracking will break for historical pages — HubSpot's own tracking pixel will generate fresh page view data going forward, but historical page view records from eTrigue land only as timeline events without the page routing context.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful eTrigue to HubSpot data migration

  1. Audit eTrigue data model and extract prospect, campaign, and activity records

    FlitStack AI connects to eTrigue's API and inventories all Prospects, Companies (extracted from prospect properties), Campaigns, Custom Fields, and activity records. We catalog every custom field type, pick-list value, and relationship (e.g., prospect-to-campaign membership). This inventory produces the field mapping specification before any data moves. We flag records with incomplete email addresses, duplicate companies, or missing required HubSpot fields so your team can decide how to handle them — either clean before migration or accept the data as-is and handle in HubSpot post-migration.

  2. Configure HubSpot properties and campaign records to match eTrigue's data model

    We create the custom contact and company properties in HubSpot that correspond to eTrigue's custom fields — Boolean, number, date, and text properties using HubSpot's camelCase naming convention. Campaign records from eTrigue are pre-created in HubSpot as marketing campaigns so membership records can link to them. This step runs in a HubSpot staging environment or your production portal (depending on your preference) before the migration load begins, ensuring all properties exist when records import.

  3. Resolve company deduplication and split prospect-to-company associations

    eTrigue's prospect-level company data is deduplicated into HubSpot Company records by matching company name and domain. We apply a configurable dedup rule (exact match on domain first, then fuzzy match on company name) and surface any ambiguous merges for your review. Each resulting Company record gets associated to the migrated Contact via HubSpot's company_id property. Prospects that had no company data in eTrigue land as Contacts with no company association — flagged for post-migration cleanup.

  4. Run sample migration with field-level diff across a representative record slice

    A sample batch — typically 100–500 records spanning contacts, companies, campaign memberships, and activity history — migrates first. We generate a field-level diff report showing every eTrigue field, the HubSpot destination property, the mapped value in HubSpot, and any transformation applied (value mapping, type conversion, default used). You review the diff, validate lifecycle_stage mapping, confirm company linking, and approve the full migration parameters. This step catches mapping errors before the full record volume moves.

  5. Execute full migration with delta-pickup window and post-migration validation

    The full migration loads all prospects, companies, campaign memberships, and activity records into HubSpot. A delta-pickup window (24–48 hours) captures any new records or updates made in eTrigue during the cutover. We validate record counts, property覆盖率, and association completeness against the source inventory. An audit log records every imported record with its source eTrigue ID for traceability. If reconciliation reveals missing records or association gaps, we re-run the affected batches before the migration is considered complete.

  6. Deliver workflow reference export and post-migration handoff documentation

    We export all eTrigue campaign workflow definitions — enrollment criteria, time delays, email content references, and branching logic — as a structured reference document for your HubSpot admin. This document maps each eTrigue workflow to the equivalent HubSpot Workflow or Sales Hub Sequence that should be configured. We also deliver a field mapping spreadsheet, a list of HubSpot custom properties created, and a record of any eTrigue data that could not migrate (landing pages, dynamic list logic) with recommendations for rebuilding in HubSpot.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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eTrigue

Source

Strengths

  • Drag-and-drop campaign builder reduces onboarding time for non-technical marketing users.
  • Lead scoring model is multi-dimensional (5-component composite) and praised for accuracy in G2 reviews.
  • Built-in progressive forms capture prospect data contextually within campaigns.
  • Support responsiveness is a documented strength — callbacks within an hour for complex setups.
  • Partner marketing specialization with Lead Accelerator is a differentiator for channel-focused organizations.

Weaknesses

  • Limited workflow and automation capabilities compared to broader marketing automation platforms.
  • No publicly documented API — all data extraction relies on the built-in CSV export tool, which constrains migration speed.
  • Platform is perceived as scaling poorly beyond small to medium team sizes.
  • Pricing is opaque (per-demo quote model) with no published tier-based pricing, complicating budget planning.
  • UX frustrations with renaming and reorganizing objects accumulate for power users managing many campaigns.
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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. 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 eTrigue and HubSpot.

  • 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

    eTrigue: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

Estimator

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Most eTrigue-to-HubSpot migrations complete in 48–72 hours for under 50,000 prospect records. Larger setups with over 100,000 records, extensive custom fields, or multiple campaigns extend to 5–10 days. The longest planning step is configuring HubSpot custom properties and campaign records to match eTrigue's data model before data moves. The actual API extraction and HubSpot import run on a compressed timeline once the field mapping is approved.

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