CRM migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Keap and monday CRM. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in monday CRM.
Keap
Source
monday CRM
Destination
Compatibility
9 of 10
objects map 1:1 between Keap and monday CRM.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
2-4 weeks
Overview
Moving from Keap to Monday.com CRM is a migration from an automation-first SMB CRM to a visual-workflow platform with CRM capabilities layered on top. Keap stores its core value — tag-triggered automation sequences — in a proprietary format that cannot be exported via API, making this migration a contacts-and-deals data transfer rather than a full configuration clone. We extract Contact records (including custom field values resolved via the REST contact model endpoint), Company records, Tag lists, Opportunity pipeline data, and historical Invoice records via the invoice API endpoint to avoid Keap's known pipeline activity display bug. Monday.com CRM structures its data around People (contacts), Organizations (companies), and Deals (opportunities) with optional automations gated by plan tier. The Monday.com Basic plan at $12 per seat includes zero automations — teams relying on Keap's automation sequences must plan for a manual rebuild in Monday.com's automation builder or budget for Standard ($17 per seat) or above.
Every standard and custom field arrives verified.
AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.
Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.
Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.
Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.
Why teams make this switch
Leaving
What's pushing teams away
Choosing
What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a Keap object lands in monday CRM, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Keap
Contact
monday CRM
People
1:1Keap Contact records map to Monday.com CRM People with standard fields (name, email, phone, address) transferring directly. Custom field values require discovery of field IDs via Keap's REST /retrieveContactModel endpoint before export. We map each Keap custom field to a Monday.com People column of equivalent type (text, number, date, dropdown). Keap tags applied to contacts transfer as Monday.com Labels on the People record, preserving segmentation logic from the source.
Keap
Company
monday CRM
Organization
1:1Keap Company records map to Monday.com CRM Organizations. We preserve the Company-to-Contact association by linking each People record to its parent Organization using Monday.com's organizational structure. Company-level fields (name, website, address, phone) map to the Organization's corresponding properties.
Keap
Tag
monday CRM
Label
lossyKeap tags serve dual roles as segmentation labels and automation triggers. We export all tags as Monday.com Labels and apply them to People records. Automation trigger logic cannot transfer — Keap's sequence triggers tied to specific tags must be rebuilt manually in Monday.com's automation builder. We deliver a tag-to-automation dependency map listing each Keap tag and its associated sequence actions for manual reconstruction.
Keap
Opportunity
monday CRM
Deal
1:1Keap Opportunities map to Monday.com CRM Deals with stage, value, owner, and expected close date preserved. Keap's user-defined pipeline stage names map to Monday.com Deal status columns, which we configure before migration. The deal value, expected close date, and owner assignment transfer directly. We do not rely on Keap's pipeline activity log for deal history due to the known bug (knownissues.keap.com #3275175) where invoice events do not appear in activity lines — we query the invoice API endpoint separately to capture complete deal financial history.
Keap
Invoice
monday CRM
Not native to Monday.com CRM
1:1Keap Invoice records (with line items, totals, status, and associated contact) export via API but Monday.com CRM has no native invoice object. We map invoice records as Deal items with status columns capturing invoice state (draft, sent, paid, overdue) and line item data stored as text or number columns on the associated Deal. For customers requiring a native invoicing tool post-migration, we document the invoice-to-Deal mapping and recommend a third-party integration (QuickBooks, FreshBooks, or a monday.com-integrated billing app) as a separate implementation step.
Keap
Product
monday CRM
No native product catalog
1:1Keap product catalog items (name, SKU, price, description) have no direct Monday.com CRM equivalent. Products used in Keap quotes or invoices migrate as static data (text fields on the associated Deal or as items in a separate Products board the customer creates). We preserve SKU, pricing, and description as custom column values for reference during deal management.
Keap
Task
monday CRM
Task
1:1Keap tasks with subject, due date, assigned user, status, and completion date map to Monday.com Tasks. Tasks linked to contacts in Keap attach to the corresponding People record in Monday.com. Task status (complete, incomplete) and timestamps preserve, with assigned user resolved by email match against Monday.com workspace members.
Keap
Note
monday CRM
Update
1:1Keap notes associated with contacts or companies migrate as Monday.com Updates on the corresponding People or Organization record. We preserve the free-text content, author, and creation timestamp. Note attachments (if present in Keap) require separate file handling — we export attachments separately and re-link them to the target record post-migration.
Keap
Automation Sequence
monday CRM
Automation (rebuild required)
1:1Keap automation sequences cannot be exported in structured form via API. The sequence names and step counts are extractable, but conditional logic, time delays, tag assignments, and email content are stored in a proprietary format inaccessible to the API. We deliver a written sequence inventory listing every Keap sequence with its name, step count, trigger condition, and recommended Monday.com automation builder equivalent. The customer's admin rebuilds sequences in Monday.com post-migration as a manual configuration task.
Keap
User (Team Member)
monday CRM
Member
1:1Keap user accounts (name, email, role, permissions) map to Monday.com workspace Members. We export users by email match against the Monday.com destination workspace. Roles are approximated to Monday.com's Member and Guest permission model. API-level access credentials do not transfer — new Monday.com API tokens must be generated in the destination workspace for any ongoing integrations.
| Keap | monday CRM | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | People1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Company | Organization1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Tag | Labellossy | Fully supported | |
| Opportunity | Deal1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Invoice | Not native to Monday.com CRM1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Product | No native product catalog1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Task | Task1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Note | Update1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Automation Sequence | Automation (rebuild required)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| User (Team Member) | Member1:1 | Fully supported |
Gotchas + challenges
Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.
Keap gotchas
API rate limit of 500 calls per minute
Automation sequences are not structurally exportable
Custom fields require in-app creation before API use
Pipeline activity history bug with invoices
V2 REST API parity gaps with XML-RPC
monday CRM gotchas
Subitems are not included in bulk exports
Daily API call limits vary sharply by plan
Legacy automations (Sentence Builder) are being deprecated
Excel and account exports only include table views
Enterprise admins can disable non-admin exports
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and custom field pre-creation coordination
We audit the source Keap portal to count Contacts, Companies, Tags, Opportunities, Invoices, Products, Tasks, Notes, and Users. We identify all custom field definitions by querying the Keap REST contact model endpoint and produce a custom field inventory. We coordinate with the customer's Keap admin to confirm that all required custom fields exist in Keap's UI before export begins (since Keap requires in-app field creation before API IDs become available). We also assess the automation sequence inventory and flag each sequence as requiring manual rebuild in Monday.com. The discovery output is a written migration scope with record counts, custom field mapping, and a Monday.com plan recommendation based on automation needs.
Monday.com CRM workspace and board setup
We create the Monday.com CRM workspace with People, Organizations, and Deals boards matching the source Keap schema. Pipeline stage definitions from Keap Opportunities map to Monday.com Deal status columns, which we configure before any data import. We pre-create People custom columns to match the Keap custom field inventory, ensuring the schema is in place before records are imported. Tag lists from Keap are exported and prepared as Monday.com Labels. We verify the Monday.com plan tier includes sufficient automation capacity (Standard or above recommended) before proceeding.
Data export from Keap with API rate limit pacing
We export all records from Keap using the REST API, pacing requests to stay within the 500 calls per minute limit. Large contact exports (exceeding approximately 5,000 contacts) run across multiple minute windows with exponential backoff between requests. We query the invoice API endpoint directly rather than relying on deal activity logs (per knownissues.keap.com #3275175). All exports produce reconciliation counts that we verify against the discovery baseline before import begins. We export Tags, Companies, Contacts, Opportunities, Invoices, Products, Tasks, and Notes as separate datasets.
Data transformation and Monday.com import
We transform exported data into Monday.com CRM format: Contacts import as People records with Labels applied; Companies import as Organizations linked to their People records; Opportunities import as Deals with status, value, owner, and expected close date preserved. Tags become Monday.com Labels. Invoices map to Deal column values. Tasks and Notes attach to the corresponding People records. We resolve owner assignments by email match against Monday.com workspace members, flagging any unmatched owners for the customer's admin to provision before proceeding. Each import phase emits a row-count reconciliation report.
Reconciliation and validation
We run a full reconciliation comparing source Keap record counts against imported Monday.com record counts across all object types. We spot-check 25-50 records for field-level accuracy, verifying that custom field values, tag assignments, deal values, and timestamps transferred correctly. Any mapping gaps or data anomalies are corrected before production cutover. The customer reviews the validated data in a Monday.com sandbox or preview workspace and signs off before the production cutover window opens.
Cutover, delta sync, and automation rebuild handoff
We freeze writes to the source Keap system during the cutover window, run a final delta export of any records modified during the migration, and complete the import into Monday.com CRM. We deliver the automation sequence inventory document listing every Keap sequence with its recommended Monday.com automation builder equivalent. The customer receives a written record of every workflow and sequence requiring manual rebuild. We do not rebuild Keap sequences as Monday.com automations inside the migration scope — this is a manual configuration task documented for the customer's admin team. We provide a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues reported after cutover.
Platform deep dives
Keap
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
monday CRM
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard CRM migration. 2 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Standard migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Keap and monday CRM.
Object compatibility
2 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Field mapping clarity
Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.
Timeline complexity
8-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
Keap: 500 requests per minute per tenant, reset per minute.
Data volume sensitivity
Keap doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.
Estimator
Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.
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