CRM migration

Migrate from Fortifi to Twenty CRM

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

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Fortifi

Source

Twenty CRM

Destination

Twenty CRM logo

Compatibility

80%

8 of 10

objects map 1:1 between Fortifi and Twenty CRM.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

2-3 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Fortifi to Twenty CRM is a migration from an all-in-one billing-centric platform to an open-source relationship-focused CRM. Fortifi orbits its data model around Customers, Actions, Conversions, and Invoices under usage-based tier limits; Twenty CRM uses the standard Company-Contact-Opportunity model with a /metadata API for custom objects and a CSV import path for bulk records. The primary migration risk is Fortifi's lack of published API documentation, which forces us to assess CSV export and manual extraction capabilities during discovery. We sequence the migration with parent records (Users, Companies) first, then Contacts, then Opportunities and Subscriptions, then Activity history as Tasks, and finally any custom properties via Twenty's metadata API. Workflows, dunning sequences, and renewal automations in Fortifi do not migrate; we deliver a written inventory for your admin to rebuild in Twenty. The open-source nature of Twenty means there is no per-contact or per-seat vendor lock-in after migration, and the data belongs to you on your own infrastructure.

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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Fortifi

What's pushing teams away

  • Initial setup is described as enterprise-grade implementation, not plug-and-play, making it difficult for small teams to self-onboard without professional services.
  • Usage limits on Actions, Conversions, and Invoices create artificial ceilings that force upgrades as the business grows, with no visibility into overage costs during migration scoping.
  • Support responsiveness and documentation depth lag behind established CRM platforms, leaving admins without clear guidance on advanced configurations.
  • The all-in-one approach means the platform does many things adequately but may lack the specialized depth of best-of-breed tools for complex billing rules or CRM workflows.
  • Customer caps per tier (2,500 on Essential, 20,000 on Team) require mid-market companies to upgrade to Startup pricing earlier than expected.

Choosing

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Twenty CRM

What's pulling them in

  • Top open-source CRM on GitHub with 40.6K stars, giving teams full source code access and infrastructure ownership without per-feature licensing surprises.
  • Free self-hosting under AGPL-3.0 means unlimited users and custom objects for the cost of cloud infrastructure alone, typically $20–100/month.
  • Pricing page explicitly mocks competitors for charging add-on fees for API access, webhooks, and workflows — transparency that resonates with RevOps teams burned by Salesforce.
  • Unlimited custom objects and fields with no price impact, letting teams shape the data model to their business rather than forcing business into rigid schemas.
  • Modern TypeScript/React/PostgreSQL stack means developer-led teams can extend, self-host, or integrate without fighting legacy architecture.

Object mapping

How Fortifi objects map to Twenty CRM

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

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

Fortifi

Customer

maps to

Twenty CRM

Company + Contact

1:many
Fully supported

Fortifi Customers split into Twenty's Company record (company-level fields: name, domain, address) and a primary Contact record (personal fields: name, email, phone, job title). The split is based on whether the Fortifi Customer record contains person-level or organization-level data. We preserve the original Customer ID in a custom field for cross-reference during reconciliation.

Fortifi

Subscription

maps to

Twenty CRM

Custom Object (Subscription)

1:1
Fully supported

Fortifi Subscription records define recurring billing models, plan assignments, and cycle data. These map to a Twenty custom object created via the /metadata API before migration. Fields include plan name, billing cycle, start date, status, and a lookup to the parent Company. Advanced billing rules (proration, trial extensions) are flagged for manual review post-migration.

Fortifi

Invoice

maps to

Twenty CRM

Custom Object (Invoice)

1:1
Fully supported

Fortifi Invoice records carry full financial data: line items, payment status, due dates, tax codes, and totals. We migrate these to a Twenty custom Invoice object with a lookup to the parent Company and Subscription. Invoice PDFs are stored as attachments linked via ContentDocumentLink. Payment history is preserved as a related custom object or as fields on the Invoice record.

Fortifi

Action

maps to

Twenty CRM

Task

1:1
Fully supported

Fortifi Actions are behavioral event logs against Customers (page views, form submissions, feature usage). We map these to Twenty Task records with type classification preserved in the Subject or a custom field, and a link to the parent Company or Contact via WhatId or the primary relationship field.

Fortifi

Conversion

maps to

Twenty CRM

Opportunity

1:1
Fully supported

Fortifi Conversions represent marketing or sales goal completions tied to workflows. We map Conversion records to Twenty Opportunity, preserving attribution data (source, campaign, channel) in Opportunity fields and a link to the primary Company. If Fortifi tracks a monetary value on the Conversion, that becomes the Opportunity Amount.

Fortifi

Email

maps to

Twenty CRM

Task + Comment

1:1
Fully supported

Fortifi Email records include sent, delivered, opened, and bounced states with template associations. We migrate the email body and metadata as a Twenty Task (activity timeline entry) linked to the parent Company or Contact. Template associations and engagement states are preserved in custom Task fields for reporting.

Fortifi

Interaction

maps to

Twenty CRM

Task

1:1
Fully supported

Fortifi Interactions track customer touchpoints across support and engagement channels. We map Interaction records to Twenty Task with channel type (phone, chat, email, in-person) preserved in the Subject or a custom field, timestamp preserved as ActivityDate, and body or notes migrated as the Task description.

Fortifi

User

maps to

Twenty CRM

WorkspaceMember (Twenty)

1:1
Fully supported

Fortifi User records include role and permission assignments. We extract active Users by email match against Twenty WorkspaceMembers. Role names migrate as custom fields on the WorkspaceMember record. Permission set details are documented for manual verification post-migration.

Fortifi

Custom Properties

maps to

Twenty CRM

Custom Fields (via /metadata API)

lossy
Mapping required

Fortifi supports custom fields on Customers and potentially other objects. We discover the custom property schema during scoping, pre-create equivalent custom fields in Twenty via the /metadata API before data migration, and map values field-by-field. Any Fortifi custom property without a clear Twenty equivalent is flagged with a data type recommendation.

Fortifi

Automation Workflows

maps to

Twenty CRM

Not migrated (inventory only)

1:1
Not supported

Fortifi automation rules, dunning sequences, and renewal triggers are configuration-level settings stored in the platform and not exportable as data records. We document the full automation configuration during discovery including trigger conditions, action sequences, and timing rules, and deliver this as a written handoff document for the customer's admin to rebuild in Twenty. This is not in standard migration scope.

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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Fortifi gotchas

High

Usage-based pricing tiers impose hard migration boundaries

High

No publicly documented API endpoint reference

Medium

Initial setup complexity for B2B operations

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Twenty CRM gotchas

High

Import order is enforced and critical

High

Export limited to 20,000 records and visible columns only

Medium

Soft-deleted records count toward uniqueness and trigger restores

Medium

API rate limits cap at 200 req/min on Organization tier

Low

No native email sequences — follow-up cadences require external tools

Pair-specific challenges

  • Fortifi has no publicly documented API for extraction

    Extensive research found no published API documentation for Fortifi (fortifi.io). Export options may be limited to manual CSV/UI exports or require database-level access, which affects how we sequence and automate the migration. We assess export capabilities on a per-customer basis during scoping and adjust the migration approach accordingly. If only manual CSV exports are available, we scope extra time for batch extraction and data quality review before mapping.

  • Twenty self-hosted version upgrades can blank the CRM

    A documented GitHub issue (#14705 on twentyhq/twenty) shows that updating a self-hosted Twenty instance across multiple minor versions (e.g., 1.3.0 to 1.6.7) can result in a largely blank CRM interface even when database migrations appear to complete. We strongly recommend deploying Twenty migrations to the managed cloud instance or using a dedicated migration-staging environment if self-hosting, rather than updating an in-production self-hosted instance mid-migration.

  • Fortifi usage tiers may limit extraction volume mid-migration

    Fortifi bills on Actions, Conversions, Emails, Interactions, and Invoices per month. When extracting large datasets for migration, the volume of data to export may approach or exceed tier limits, causing the account to hit a billing ceiling. We scope total record volumes during discovery and pace extraction to avoid triggering overage charges. If the customer is on the Essential or Team tier, we flag which object volumes may constrain the migration window.

  • Invoice and Subscription data may require custom object setup before migration

    Twenty CRM does not have a native billing or subscription module. Invoice and Subscription records from Fortifi must migrate into custom objects created via the Twenty /metadata API before any data loads begin. We create these custom objects in a staging phase and validate the schema before production migration. If the customer uses advanced Fortifi billing rules (proration, trial-to-paid transitions, dunning sequences), those require manual configuration in the destination custom objects post-migration.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Fortifi to Twenty CRM data migration

  1. Discovery and export capability assessment

    We audit the source Fortifi account for tier level (Essential/Team/Startup), record volumes across Customers, Actions, Conversions, Emails, Interactions, Invoices, and Subscriptions, custom property schemas, user count, and pipeline configurations. Because Fortifi has no documented public API, we specifically assess whether CSV/UI export is available for each object and whether direct database access is an option. The discovery output is a written migration scope with record counts, extraction method per object, and a tier-fit analysis for the customer's chosen Twenty plan.

  2. Schema design in Twenty and custom object provisioning

    We design the destination schema in Twenty. This includes creating custom objects for Invoice and Subscription via the /metadata API, adding any custom fields to Company and Contact that map from Fortifi custom properties, and configuring the Opportunity stage values to reflect the Fortifi pipeline and Conversion data. If the customer runs Twenty on self-hosted infrastructure, we recommend deploying the migration into the managed cloud instance first or using a dedicated staging environment to avoid the version-update blank-CRM risk documented in GitHub issue #14705.

  3. Data extraction and staging

    We extract data from Fortifi using the available method (CSV export or manual pull) and stage it in a secure migration workspace. Because Fortifi lacks a programmatic API, extraction may require multiple batch exports. We deduplicate records, standardize date formats, resolve email-to-Company associations, and apply any data quality rules before transformation. This phase emits a record-count manifest per object for customer sign-off before any data loads into Twenty.

  4. Owner and user reconciliation

    We extract every distinct Fortifi User referenced on Customer, Subscription, Invoice, and Interaction records and match by email against Twenty WorkspaceMembers. Any Fortifi User without a matching Twenty WorkspaceMember goes to a reconciliation queue. The customer's admin provisions missing WorkspaceMembers before migration resumes. Owner assignment on migrated records cannot proceed until this step is complete.

  5. Production migration in dependency order

    We run production migration into Twenty in dependency order: WorkspaceMembers (manual provisioning validated), Companies (from Fortifi Customers), primary Contacts (linked to Companies), Opportunities (from Fortifi Conversions with Amount and attribution), Tasks (from Actions, Interactions, Emails), Custom objects (Subscriptions and Invoices via pre-created schema), and finally any custom field data. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report. Activity records are linked to parent Companies and Contacts with ActivityDate preserved from the Fortifi timestamp.

  6. Cutover, validation, and automation inventory handoff

    We freeze Fortifi as the system of record, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the cutover window, then enable Twenty as the live CRM. We deliver the automation configuration inventory documenting every Fortifi dunning sequence, renewal trigger, and workflow rule with trigger conditions, action sequences, and recommended Twenty equivalents for manual rebuild. We support a one-week post-migration window for reconciliation issues. Workflow rebuilds and post-migration admin training are not in standard scope and are handled as separate engagements.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Fortifi

Source

Strengths

  • Unified CRM, billing, marketing, and support under one vendor reduces multi-tool overhead.
  • Native subscription billing with automated dunning and fraud detection.
  • Usage-based pricing aligns cost to actual usage volume.
  • Built-in GDPR and EU tax compliance for European market operations.
  • 14-day free trial with $100 credit to evaluate before committing.

Weaknesses

  • Enterprise-grade implementation requires significant setup effort, not plug-and-play.
  • Usage caps (Actions, Conversions, Emails, Invoices) create hard limits that trigger upgrades.
  • No public API documentation found, limiting programmatic export and integration options.
  • Limited public review volume and community resources compared to established CRMs.
  • Customer and user seat caps on lower tiers constrain mid-market scalability.
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Twenty CRM

Destination

Strengths

  • AGPL-3.0 open-source license with full source code on GitHub — no vendor lock-in, no sunset risk.
  • Unlimited users and unlimited custom objects on self-hosted, with no feature gating based on headcount.
  • REST and GraphQL APIs available on all paid tiers, not locked behind an enterprise add-on fee.
  • MCP server and webhooks shipped as standard features, not premium upgrades.
  • Modern PostgreSQL-backed data model that developer teams can query, extend, and self-host.

Weaknesses

  • Recent v1.0 release means limited production hardening compared to CRMs with multi-year operational track records.
  • No native email sequencing or sales engagement tools — follow-up cadences require a separate platform.
  • No native two-way email sync or inbox integration, requiring third-party connectors for full activity logging.
  • Self-hosting 'free' pricing hides real infrastructure and DevOps costs that stack up over time.
  • Workflow automation is functional but lacks the complexity needed for sophisticated multi-step sales motions.

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 Fortifi and Twenty CRM.

  • 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

    Fortifi: Not publicly published on docs.fortifi.io as a single numeric ceiling..

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

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 two and three weeks for accounts under 15,000 Customers, 50,000 Actions, and 2,000 Invoices with standard custom fields and no advanced billing rules. Migrations requiring manual data extraction (due to missing API documentation), large subscription or invoice histories, or custom object schema reconstruction extend to five to eight weeks because of data discovery overhead, extraction pacing to respect Fortifi tier limits, and post-migration reconciliation.

Adjacent paths

Related migrations to explore

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