CRM migration

Migrate from Field2Base to Salesforce Sales Cloud

Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Field2Base and Salesforce Sales Cloud. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Salesforce Sales Cloud.

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Field2Base

Source

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Destination

Salesforce Sales Cloud logo

Compatibility

100%

11 of 11

objects map 1:1 between Field2Base and Salesforce Sales Cloud.

Complexity

CModerate

Timeline

48–72 hours

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Field2Base is a field service automation platform built around form templates and submitted form records — not a CRM in the traditional sense. Its core data objects are Form Templates, Submitted Forms, Regions (custom fields on forms), Users, and Workflows. Salesforce Sales Cloud organizes data around Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, and Tasks. The migration challenge is translating a form-centric, field-collected dataset into a relationship-oriented CRM schema. FlitStack AI extracts submitted form data via Field2Base's REST API or CSV export, maps form submissions to Salesforce Cases (for service-type records) or Tasks (for activity logs), and converts Field2Base Regions — the custom fields defined per form template — into Salesforce custom fields on the Case object using the __c suffix convention. User records in Field2Base map to Salesforce Contacts; unresolved users become Contacts flagged with the original Field2Base User ID in a Source_System_User_ID__c custom field. What does not migrate: Field2Base Workflows (the review-and-approval automation layer) must be rebuilt in Salesforce Flow or Process Builder — we export the workflow definitions as a reference document. Form templates themselves are not migrated; they are rebuilt as Salesforce page layouts or case record types. Integrations connected via Field2Base's Data Integration Module require new connectors to Salesforce. The delta-pickup window captures any new form submissions during the cutover window so no field data is missed at go-live.

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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Field2Base

What's pushing teams away

  • Small teams find the pricing model expensive at scale — Essentials starts at $20 per license per month and higher tiers require custom quotes, making per-seat costs unpredictable as the field workforce grows.
  • The platform lacks a robust self-service review ecosystem — Capterra and G2 show fewer than 15 verified reviews, which makes independent evaluation difficult and signals a narrow customer base.
  • Annual manual app update requirements were a documented pain point before Field2Base moved to app-store distribution, reflecting a historical gap in automated delivery infrastructure.
  • Companies requiring modern analytics dashboards or real-time field reporting find Field2Base's reporting layer less mature compared to newer field service platforms like UpKeep or MaintainX that embed BI tooling natively.

Choosing

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Salesforce Sales Cloud

What's pulling them in

  • The AppExchange marketplace with 5,000+ prebuilt apps gives enterprises integrations for nearly every business workflow without custom development.
  • Native Einstein AI for lead scoring, opportunity insights, and predictive forecasting adds intelligence without a separate platform purchase.
  • Territory management, multi-currency support, and advanced forecasting satisfy the needs of complex B2B sales organizations with structured revenue teams.
  • Slack, Tableau, and CPQ are deeply integrated into the core platform, keeping the sales stack unified for teams already in the Salesforce ecosystem.
  • Organizations with a large, established Salesforce implementation choose it because switching costs — integrations, custom code, trained admins — are prohibitive.

Object mapping

How Field2Base objects map to Salesforce Sales Cloud

Each row shows how a Field2Base object lands in Salesforce Sales Cloud, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.

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

Field2Base

Submitted Form

maps to

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Case

1:1
Fully supported

Each Field2Base submitted form becomes a Salesforce Case. The form template name maps to Case Origin or a custom pick-list field (Form_Template_Name__c). Submitted form timestamp becomes Case CreatedDate via Salesforce's audit field — original submission time is preserved in Original_Submission_Date__c for reporting continuity.

Field2Base

Form Region (custom field)

maps to

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Custom Field (__c) on Case

1:1
Fully supported

Every Field2Base Region on a form template becomes a Salesforce custom field on the Case object. Region names are converted to valid API field names (spaces removed, underscores added). Field type is mapped: text Regions → Text(255), numeric Regions → Number, date Regions → Date, dropdown Regions → Picklist. Fields must be created in Salesforce before the migration run.

Field2Base

Form Template

maps to

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Case Origin + Record Type

1:1
Fully supported

Form templates map to Salesforce Case Origin values (e.g., 'Inspection Form' → Origin = 'Inspection') or to Record Types when different form types require distinct page layouts and pick-list values. One form template can generate one or more Record Types depending on how many unique Case types Field2Base captures.

Field2Base

Field2Base User (Submitter)

maps to

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Contact

1:1
Fully supported

Field2Base users who submitted forms map to Salesforce Contacts. Resolution happens by email match against existing Salesforce Contacts. Unmatched users are flagged before migration — your team either pre-creates their Contact record or assigns submissions to a fallback Contact flagged with the original Field2Base User ID in Source_System_User_ID__c.

Field2Base

Field2Base User (Reviewer)

maps to

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Contact

1:1
Fully supported

Field2Base users assigned as form reviewers map to Salesforce Contacts separately from submitters. Review action and timestamp are preserved as a custom activity note on the Case record. A custom field Reviewer_Name__c stores the reviewer's name when they are not yet a Salesforce Contact.

Field2Base

Submitted Form (GPS / Location Data)

maps to

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Custom Geolocation Field on Case

1:1
Fully supported

Field2Base captures GPS coordinates on form submissions. This migrates to two Salesforce custom Number fields (Submission_Latitude__c and Submission_Longitude__c) on the Case object. Salesforce Maps can visualize these as Case markers on a map view if your org has the Salesforce Maps product enabled.

Field2Base

Form Attachment / Photo

maps to

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Salesforce Files (ContentDocument / ContentVersion)

1:1
Fully supported

Photos and file attachments submitted with forms are downloaded from Field2Base storage and re-uploaded to Salesforce as Files attached to the corresponding Case record. File size limits apply — Salesforce Files default to 25MB per file; larger files require Salesforce CRM Content or an external storage integration.

Field2Base

Form Submission Status (Draft, Submitted, Approved)

maps to

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Case Status pick-list

1:1
Fully supported

Field2Base form submission status values map to Salesforce Case Status pick-list values. 'Draft' forms in Field2Base can be excluded from migration (they are not finalized) or mapped to a Salesforce Case Status value like 'New / Not Started'. 'Submitted' maps to 'New' or 'Working', 'Approved' maps to 'Resolved' or a custom closed status — value-by-value mapping required.

Field2Base

Field2Base Workflow

maps to

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Salesforce Flow

1:1
Fully supported

Field2Base Workflows (review-and-approval steps on form submissions) do not migrate. FlitStack AI exports each workflow definition — step sequence, reviewer assignment rules, and approval conditions — as a JSON reference document your Salesforce admin uses to rebuild equivalent Flow logic. This is a manual rebuild; no automated conversion exists.

Field2Base

Field2Base Integration Connections (DIM / EDM)

maps to

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Salesforce Connected App + External Data Source

1:1
Fully supported

Field2Base integrations built via the Data Integration Module connect form data to back-end SQL, ERP, or other SaaS systems. These connections require new Salesforce integrations — typically a Salesforce Connected App for API access or Salesforce External Data Sources for ODBC-style live queries. We document each active DIM/EDM connection for your integration team to rebuild.

Field2Base

Field2Base Company

maps to

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Account

1:1
Fully supported

Field2Base optionally links form submissions to a Company record (enterprise tier). This maps directly to Salesforce Account. Address, phone, and industry fields migrate to the corresponding Account fields. If no Company is linked in Field2Base, submissions land as Cases on a default 'Field Service' Account your admin specifies.

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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Field2Base gotchas

High

Offline draft data loss risk at migration cutover

High

Integration capabilities are tier-gated

Medium

API rate limits not publicly documented

Medium

Custom Regions require manual field mapping

Low

Submitted form versioning not tracked in exports

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Salesforce Sales Cloud gotchas

High

Workflow Rules and Process Builder are retired

High

Bulk API batch quota exhaustion during large imports

Medium

Storage overage billing is non-obvious

Medium

Account-Contact many-to-many relationship mapping

Low

Territory and team member import ordering dependencies

Pair-specific challenges

  • Region name collision in Salesforce requires namespace prefix planning

    Field2Base Regions are scoped per form template — two different form templates can have a Region named 'Status'. Salesforce custom fields are org-wide unique, so both Regions would resolve to the same field API name (Status__c), creating a collision. We detect duplicate Region names across form templates during mapping and append a numeric suffix or form-type prefix to each field API name. Your Salesforce admin must approve the final field name list before migration runs. If your org uses a managed package namespace, field API names must include the namespace prefix (namespace__Status__c) — this is a separate setup step.

  • Draft form submissions may inflate Case count if not filtered

    Field2Base saves form submissions in Draft status before final submission. Draft records exist in the Field2Base database but do not represent completed field data. Migrating all Draft submissions as Cases creates noise in Salesforce and can trigger unwanted workflow triggers. We apply a status filter by default — only Submitted and Approved forms migrate — but your team should confirm the agreed filter criteria during the mapping phase. If Draft records must be preserved for audit purposes, they migrate to Cases with a custom Draft_Form__c flag set to true so reporting can exclude them.

  • Salesforce Files attachment size limits require chunking

    Field2Base allows photo and file attachments up to the mobile device's storage limit. Salesforce Files attached via ContentVersion default to 25MB per file. Photos from high-resolution mobile cameras routinely exceed this. FlitStack AI resizes images during the migration preparation phase — compressing to JPEG at 80% quality and 2048px longest edge — before uploading to Salesforce. If your migration requires original-resolution image preservation, Salesforce External Documents (via Salesforce Files Connect to AWS S3 or SharePoint) is the alternative — this requires an additional integration setup beyond standard migration scope.

  • Field2Base Workflows lack a Salesforce Flow equivalent for review routing

    Field2Base Workflow routes submitted forms to a designated reviewer for approval before finalization. Salesforce has no native equivalent that maps directly — Approval Processes handle record approval but not form-review routing. Rebuilding this pattern in Salesforce Flow requires a custom flow that assigns the Case to a reviewer queue and pauses until approval action. We export the Field2Base workflow definitions as a structured JSON reference document so your Salesforce admin can replicate the reviewer assignment logic. This rebuild is not included in standard migration scope.

  • GPS data requires custom geolocation field pair

    Field2Base captures latitude and longitude as separate numeric fields on the submitted form record. Salesforce has a native Geolocation compound field type (Location__c.latitude and Location__c.longitude) but it requires creating a compound address field and is not directly importable via standard Data Loader — it requires Salesforce Canvas or Apex for initial population. Most migrations map GPS coordinates to two separate custom Number fields (Submission_Latitude__c and Submission_Longitude__c) rather than the compound Geolocation type, which is simpler to migrate but loses the native Salesforce Maps distance-query capability. Discuss with your admin which approach fits your reporting needs.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Field2Base to Salesforce Sales Cloud data migration

  1. Discover Field2Base form templates and Region inventory

    FlitStack AI connects to your Field2Base instance via API using read-only credentials scoped to form data. We export all form templates, their Region definitions (field names, types, and pick-list values), and the submitted form records. We generate a Region collision report identifying duplicate Region names across templates and a draft submission audit showing the count of Draft vs. Submitted records. This discovery output is shared with your team for confirmation before any field creation in Salesforce begins.

  2. Create Salesforce custom fields from Field2Base Regions

    Based on the confirmed Region inventory, your Salesforce admin (or FlitStack on your behalf) creates the custom fields on the Case object in a sandbox environment. API field names are generated, collisions are resolved with suffixes or prefixes, and pick-list values are entered for dropdown Regions. If your org uses a managed package namespace, fields are created with the namespace prefix. Once field creation is validated in sandbox, the same field definitions are deployed to production.

  3. Resolve Field2Base users to Salesforce Contacts

    FlitStack AI extracts all Field2Base user records and attempts email-based matching against your existing Salesforce Contacts. Matched users link their submitted forms directly to their Contact record via the Case's ContactId lookup. Unmatched users are flagged in a pre-migration report — your team either pre-creates Salesforce Contacts for them or confirms a fallback assignment. This step prevents Cases from landing with no Contact lookup, which can break Salesforce reporting and Flow triggers that depend on Case.ContactId.

  4. Run a sample migration with field-level diff

    A representative slice of submitted forms — typically 200–500 records spanning multiple form templates — migrates into Salesforce sandbox first. We generate a field-level diff report comparing source Field2Base values against the migrated Salesforce Case custom field values. Your team reviews the diff to verify Region-to-field mapping accuracy, GPS data placement, status value mapping, and photo attachment integrity. Sample migration validation typically takes 1–2 business days before the full run is approved.

  5. Execute full migration with delta-pickup window

    The full submitted form dataset migrates to Salesforce production via Bulk API (for volume efficiency) with status filter applied. A delta-pickup window of 24–48 hours runs concurrently: any new form submissions that arrive in Field2Base during the cutover window are captured and migrated in a second pass. After the delta pass, an audit log is generated showing record counts by form template, status breakdown, and any records that failed validation. One-click rollback is available for 72 hours post-migration if reconciliation reveals unexpected gaps.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Field2Base

Source

Strengths

  • Offline-first architecture ensures field data capture continues without internet connectivity.
  • HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance positions the platform for regulated healthcare and government deployments.
  • No-code Forms Designer allows operations teams to build and publish custom form templates without developer involvement.
  • Multi-format integration layer (CSV, ODBC, OLEDB, API, Web Services) connects submitted forms to back-end databases and ERPs.
  • Pre-filled work order delivery with GPS navigation reduces field worker error and improves dispatch efficiency.

Weaknesses

  • Fewer than 15 verified third-party reviews limits independent evaluation of real-world performance.
  • Enterprise pricing is opaque — no public quote available without contacting sales directly.
  • Historical reliance on annual manual app updates signals infrastructure maturity gaps compared to newer competitors.
  • Analytics and reporting features are basic relative to modern field service platforms with embedded BI tooling.
  • Small company scale ($12M revenue, ~19 employees) raises long-term vendor stability questions for large enterprise buyers.
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Salesforce Sales Cloud

Destination

Strengths

  • Largest enterprise app ecosystem in CRM with 5,000+ AppExchange integrations covering nearly every vertical workflow.
  • Native Einstein AI delivers lead scoring, opportunity insights, and predictive forecasting without a third-party layer.
  • Advanced territory management, multi-currency, and flexible forecasting satisfy complex B2B revenue structures.
  • Deep platform extensibility: Custom Objects, Apex, Flow, and the Metadata API allow full schema customization.
  • Well-documented REST API, Bulk API, and Composite API with published rate limits for programmatic migration.

Weaknesses

  • Pricing model is layered and opaque in practice: per-seat fees plus storage overages, add-on subscriptions, and annual uplifts compound to 30–40% above sticker price.
  • Workflow Rules and Process Builder are deprecated, forcing all orgs onto Salesforce Flow — a migration task that catches many teams by surprise.
  • Steep administrative complexity: meaningful configuration requires a dedicated Salesforce admin or consultant.
  • API rate limits are edition-gated (100k/day base for Enterprise) and easily exhausted by large historical imports without throttling.
  • Data export is exportable via Data Loader but preserving relationship integrity across 30+ objects requires careful ETL sequencing.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Moderate CRM migration. 1 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

C

Overall complexity

Moderate migration

Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Field2Base and Salesforce Sales Cloud.

  • 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

    C

    Field2Base: Not publicly documented — we default to 10 req/s and throttle based on 429 responses.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

    Field2Base doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.

Estimator

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Most Field2Base to Salesforce migrations complete in 48–72 hours for under 25,000 submitted form records. Larger setups with 100,000+ submissions or 100+ custom Regions across multiple form templates extend to 7–10 days. The longest phase is typically Salesforce custom field creation from the Region inventory and the sample migration validation step — actual data transfer via Bulk API runs in hours for most volumes.

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