CRM

Migrate your Lime CRM data

Nordic industry-specific CRM with deep configurability and a generous included-features model. Customers tailor it to insurance, real estate, or professional services with custom fields and workflows rather than buying add-ons.

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In its favor

Why people choose Lime CRM

The signal that keeps Lime CRM on the shortlist. Sourced from G2, Capterra, and customer scoping calls.

Deep configurability lets superadmins customise the database structure without developer support, meaning each team gets a CRM shaped to their industry workflow rather than adapting to a rigid schema.

All core features are included from the Start tier without add-on purchases, giving smaller teams access to workflow automations, BI questions, and document templates at a predictable per-user cost.

Customer support is consistently rated responsive and helpful across G2 and Capterra reviews, reducing the friction of day-to-day issues during and after migration.

Industry-specific variants are available for insurance, real estate, and professional services, meaning deal stages, ticket categories, and data fields are pre-matched to sector-specific terminology.

The platform can run hosted or on the customer's own server, giving organisations control over data residency and compliance requirements that prevent them from choosing pure SaaS alternatives.

Integrations are reported as limited and immature, forcing teams to log emails manually rather than having them auto-linked to customer records, deal profiles, or company accounts.

The desktop client is described as slow by multiple reviewers, particularly when navigating large datasets or running reports across custom objects.

Global CRM competitors offer richer native feature sets out of the box, so teams requiring advanced marketing automation, AI-powered lead scoring, or built-in calling often find Lime CRM requires more customisation to match feature parity.

Feature depth is described as limited compared to platforms like Salesforce or HubSpot, with some mid-market teams citing insufficient advanced capabilities as they scale beyond 50–200 users.

Reasons to switch

Why people leave Lime CRM

The recurring reasons buyers give for replacing Lime CRM. Presented as facts, not knocks.

Platform scorecard

Strengths, weaknesses, and where Lime CRM fits

Grades across six dimensions, plus a SWOT-style view of where the platform shines and where it falls short.

SWOT — strengths, weaknesses, and use-case fit

Strengths

Configurable Limetypes let each organisation define its own data model without developer involvement.All features (automations, BI, templates, map views) are included from the Start tier without add-on fees.Industry variants are pre-built for insurance, real estate, and professional services with sector-appropriate field sets.GDPR compliance features are native, including consent management, customer-facing data portals, and JSON export.Runs on Lime-hosted cloud or on the customer's own server, addressing data residency requirements.

Weaknesses

Native integrations are sparse and require manual workarounds such as manual email logging.Desktop client performance degrades with large custom object datasets.Feature set is shallower than global CRM platforms for advanced marketing and AI capabilities.Custom Limetype schema varies per organisation, requiring per-customer analysis before migration can begin.Release cadence and documentation suggest a smaller global support footprint compared to tier-one CRM vendors.

Where it works

Nordic SMBs and mid-market firms (5–200 users) that need a CRM shaped to insurance, real estate, or professional services terminology rather than a generic sales tool.Organisations with strict data-residency or on-premises requirements that prevent them from choosing pure SaaS alternatives like HubSpot or Salesforce.Teams whose superadmins have the time to configure Limetypes and custom fields once, then benefit from a tailored database structure without ongoing developer costs.Small Nordic sales teams that want all core features—automations, BI questions, document templates—included at a predictable per-user price without add-on purchases.

Where it struggles

Global enterprises or scaling teams (50–200+ users) that require advanced AI-powered lead scoring, native marketing automation, or built-in calling features found in Salesforce or HubSpot.Organisations that depend on a broad third-party app ecosystem and deep API integrations—Lime CRM's native integrations are sparse and require manual workarounds.Teams with distributed workforces that prioritised mobile-first performance, given that the desktop client is reported as slow when navigating large custom datasets.Companies seeking rapid deployment with minimal configuration—they will spend significant time tailoring Limetypes before the CRM reflects their actual workflow.

Pricing tiers

Lime CRM pricing overview

Lime CRM charges per user per month starting at €55 on the Start tier. Business tier pricing is not publicly disclosed and requires a sales conversation. Enterprise pricing is custom. All tiers include core features; the difference is in limits on BI questions, automations, and storage rather than gating features behind add-ons.

Start

Tier 1 of 3

€55/user/month

What's included

Visual customer overview and unified contact databaseTrack customers, deals, and documentsIndustry-tailored CRM database configuration3 BI questions and 5 GB data storage5 no-code workflow automationsTry for free available

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What gets migrated

Lime CRM object support

Object-by-object support for Lime CRM migrations. Per-pair details surface during scoping.

Companies

Fully supported

Companies (sometimes called Accounts in Lime CRM) hold the organisational record with address, industry, and relationship to Contacts. Standard fields map cleanly across CRMs. We preserve the company-contact relationship during migration to avoid orphaned Contact records.

Contacts

Fully supported

Contacts are the primary person record linked to Companies. Name, email, phone, and custom properties are fully exportable. We normalise phone formats to prevent leading-zero stripping that commonly occurs in CSV exports.

Deals

Fully supported

Deals track the sales opportunity with value, stage, owner, and expected close date. Lime CRM allows custom deal pipelines and stages per industry. We map source stages to destination pipeline stages and flag any deprecated stages before import.

Activities

Fully supported

Activities represent logged calls, meetings, tasks, and notes attached to a Contact or Deal. We export these as chronological activity records and reconstruct the parent-child relationship in the destination system.

Tickets

Fully supported

Ticket support is a core part of Lime CRM's helpdesk orientation. We migrate Ticket records with status, priority, assignee, and conversation history. Conversation messages require reassembly from individual exports.

Attachments

Mapping required

Attachments are exported individually per record, potentially multiple files per Contact or Deal. We batch and rename files to preserve the parent relationship and flag any files exceeding 25 MB before upload to avoid API rejection.

Custom Objects (Limetypes)

Mapping required

Lime CRM's schema is built around configurable Limetypes. Custom objects require field-level mapping because their schema varies per customer implementation. We treat each custom Limetype as a separate export job and validate the schema before import.

Workflow Automations

Mapping required

Automations streamline ticket assignments and follow-up sequences. These rules do not export in a transferable format, so we document the automation logic from Lime CRM and reproduce equivalent rules in the destination platform as part of migration scoping.

Tags

Mapping required

Tags label Contacts, Deals, and Tickets for segmentation. We export tag values as a flat list per record and recreate tag taxonomies in the destination CRM, noting any platform differences in tag inheritance.

Users and Owners

Fully supported

User records and Deal owners are mapped by email address. We validate that destination user accounts exist before assigning ownership to avoid orphaned records with null owner fields.

Documents

Mapping required

Documents are stored alongside Deals and Contacts with auto-fill templates. The export contains the document blob and its metadata. Template auto-fill fields require mapping to the destination system's equivalent fields.

Gotchas

What to watch for in Lime CRM migrations

Issues we've hit on past Lime CRM migrations, tagged by severity. FlitStack AI handles every one — surfacing them up front because buyer engineering teams want to know.

High

Email threads export as individual message files

High

Super API-key generation removed from API

Medium

Custom Limetype schema is customer-unique

Medium

No bulk export for attachments in base tier

Medium

Workflow Automations do not export in transferable format

How a Lime CRM migration works

Four steps, Lime CRM-specific

Connect

API key (super API-key) into Lime CRM. Scopes limited to read-only on the data we move.

Map

We translate Lime CRM-specific structures (custom fields, objects, value lists) to the destination's model.

Sample

Test with a 50–200 record subset to validate Lime CRM quirks before production.

Migrate

Full migration with Lime CRM rate-limit handling. Rollback available throughout.

FAQ

Lime CRM migration FAQ

Answers to the questions buyers ask most during Lime CRM migration scoping. Not seeing yours? Book a call.

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Most Lime CRM migrations under 1M records finish in 48–72 hours end-to-end. Larger orgs with custom objects or buyer-side security review typically take 5–7 days.

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