CRM migration

Migrate from Lime Go to Freshsales

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

Lime Go logo

Lime Go

Source

Freshsales

Destination

Freshsales logo

Compatibility

83%

10 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Lime Go and Freshsales.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

2-4 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Lime Go to Freshsales is a geographic and structural migration. Lime Go organizes B2B data around Customers (account-level), Contacts, Deals, Activities, and Reminders with a built-in read-only Nordic company database of 3.7 million businesses. Freshsales uses the Account-Contact-Lead-Deal model with Leads for unqualified prospects and Contacts attached to Accounts for qualified records. The primary migration risk is Lime Go's undocumented public API—we use conservative request pacing and extraction via Lime Go's generic HTTP authentication (OAuth1/OAuth2/Basic/Header auth) to avoid undocumented throttling. The Nordic enrichment layer does not migrate as CRM records; we flag it as enrichment context for the customer to address separately via Freshsales' Freddy AI or a third-party enrichment provider. We do not migrate Saved Filters, Workflows, or Lime Go automations; we deliver a written inventory of these for the customer admin to rebuild in Freshsales.

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

Lime Go logo

Lime Go

What's pushing teams away

  • Poor third-party integrations force users to manually log emails and other communications, creating data silos and significant administrative overhead in daily workflows.
  • Task management lacks batch operations—users cannot select multiple reminders and postpone them in one action, causing friction when managing high-activity sales teams.
  • Limited commenting functionality: users cannot reply to comments, making collaborative note-taking and team communication less structured than alternatives.
  • Not advanced enough for project management use cases despite covering CRM fundamentals, prompting teams with project-heavy workflows to seek alternative platforms.

Choosing

Freshsales logo

Freshsales

What's pulling them in

  • Lowest barrier to entry among major CRMs — the free tier supports up to 3 users and includes core CRM functionality before committing to per-seat pricing.
  • Built-in chat, email, and phone reduce reliance on third-party integrations for basic sales communication and contact management.
  • Freddy AI contact scoring and deal insights are included on Pro plans at a lower price than comparable HubSpot tiers.
  • Kanban pipeline views across Contacts, Accounts, and Deals provide visual deal management without requiring custom configuration.
  • Integration with the broader Freshworks ecosystem (Freshdesk, Freshchat, Freshservice) reduces tool sprawl for teams already using Freshworks.

Object mapping

How Lime Go objects map to Freshsales

Each row shows how a Lime Go object lands in Freshsales, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.

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

Lime Go

Customer

maps to

Freshsales

Account

1:1
Fully supported

Lime Go Customers are the primary account-level records storing company data, addresses, custom fields, tags, and owner assignments. We map them 1:1 to Freshsales Account records. The Customer name becomes the Account Name, business number maps to a custom field, and owner assignments resolve via email match to Freshsales Users. Custom fields on Customer map to Freshsales Account custom fields discovered during schema scoping. GDPR anonymisation flags carry over as custom Account properties.

Lime Go

Contact

maps to

Freshsales

Contact

1:1
Fully supported

Lime Go Contacts store individual people linked to Customers, including phone, email, custom properties, consent flags, and owner assignments. We map them 1:1 to Freshsales Contact records, with the parent AccountId resolved via the Customer-to-Account lookup established before Contact import. GDPR consent history migrates as custom Contact fields preserving the full consent timeline (granted, withdrawn, timestamps). Freshsales Lead records are created only if the customer has unqualified prospect contacts that should not map directly to Contact; we configure the split rule during scoping.

Lime Go

Deal

maps to

Freshsales

Deal

1:1
Fully supported

Lime Go Deals link to Customers and Pipeline Stages with deal values, expected close dates, owners, and custom fields. We map Deals 1:1 to Freshsales Deal records, resolving the AccountId from the linked Customer, assigning the correct Pipeline and Stage via Freshsales pipeline configuration, and preserving custom field values. Stage transition history migrates as Deal Activity records in Freshsales.

Lime Go

Sales Pipeline

maps to

Freshsales

Deal Pipeline

lossy
Fully supported

Lime Go Pipelines with configurable stages migrate as Freshsales Deal Pipelines. We preserve stage names, order, and probability percentages. Freshsales requires pipeline and stage setup in Admin Settings before Deal import; we configure this during the pre-migration schema phase and deliver the stage probability mapping as part of the configuration document.

Lime Go

Activity

maps to

Freshsales

Activity (call, email, meeting, task)

1:1
Fully supported

Lime Go Activities log touchpoints between users and records including type, timestamp, subject, body, and linked Contact or Customer. We map Activities to Freshsales Activities with type preserved: calls map as Freshsales Task with TaskSubtype=Call, emails as Freshsales email activities, meetings as Freshsales events, and tasks as Freshsales tasks. WhoId and WhatId are resolved at migration time using the imported Contact and Account records.

Lime Go

Task

maps to

Freshsales

Task

1:1
Fully supported

Lime Go Tasks include assignee, due date, status, priority, and body text. We preserve task ownership by resolving Lime Go owner email to Freshsales User. Status transitions and due dates migrate as-is. Lime Go's lack of batch task operations does not affect migration; each task migrates as an individual record regardless of whether it was created individually or in bulk in the source.

Lime Go

Reminder

maps to

Freshsales

Task

1:1
Fully supported

Lime Go Reminders attach to Contacts, Customers, or Deals and carry a notification timestamp and context. We map them to Freshsales Task records, preserving the due date as ActivityDate and adding a custom field indicating the original Reminder type. Recurring reminders in Lime Go convert to Freshsales repeating task patterns if the destination supports them, or map as individual tasks with a recurrence note in a custom field.

Lime Go

History Note

maps to

Freshsales

Activity

1:1
Fully supported

Lime Go History Notes capture chronological interaction records per Customer or Contact with author, timestamp, and optional attachments. We migrate them as Freshsales Activity entries linked to the corresponding Account or Contact, preserving the full note body, author, and timestamp. File attachments carry over via the Documents mapping path.

Lime Go

Document

maps to

Freshsales

Attachment

1:1
Fully supported

Lime Go Documents attach to Customers, Contacts, or Deals with file storage in the platform. We extract files and link them to the corresponding Freshsales records (Account, Contact, or Deal) as Attachments, preserving file names and upload timestamps. Large binary files may require chunked download and upload with the destination file size limit respected during scoping.

Lime Go

Tag

maps to

Freshsales

Label (multi-select)

lossy
Fully supported

Lime Go Tags apply across Customers, Contacts, and Deals for segmentation. We preserve tags as flat label arrays. Freshsales uses Labels on Contacts and Accounts; we map Lime Go tags to Freshsales Labels, creating any missing label values in Freshsales before import. The customer chooses during scoping whether to apply tags as Labels on both Account and Contact or on the primary record only.

Lime Go

Custom Field (tenant-specific)

maps to

Freshsales

Custom Field

1:1
Fully supported

Lime Go custom fields on Customers, Contacts, and Deals vary by tenant. We discover the tenant schema during scoping, map field types (text, number, date, picklist) to Freshsales equivalent field types, and flag unmapped types (e.g., Lime Go-specific field types with no Freshsales equivalent) as manual-entry fields in the handoff document. Freshsales requires custom fields to be pre-created in Admin Settings before data import; we create them via the Freshsales API or deliver a configuration checklist.

Lime Go

GDPR Consent Record

maps to

Freshsales

Custom Contact/Account properties

1:1
Fully supported

Lime Go consent history and anonymisation flags migrate as custom Contact and Account properties in Freshsales. We preserve the full consent timeline (granted date, withdrawn date, consent type, source) to maintain GDPR compliance posture post-migration. The consent data model is recreated as custom fields on Contact and Account rather than as separate consent objects.

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.

Lime Go logo

Lime Go gotchas

High

No public REST API with documented rate limits

Medium

Minimum contract pricing of approximately €120/month

Medium

Nordic company enrichment data is read-only

Medium

Manual email logging required due to poor integrations

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Freshsales gotchas

Medium

Freddy AI is Pro-tier only despite heavy marketing

High

Post-migration emails and sequences are disabled

Medium

Bot session credits are a one-time 500-session allocation

Medium

Phone credits charged per minute with no cap

Low

File storage limits scale with plan tier

Pair-specific challenges

  • Lime Go lacks a public REST API with documented rate limits

    Lime Go does not publish a comprehensive public REST API reference with rate limits. The n8n integration page shows support for generic HTTP authentication (OAuth1/OAuth2, Basic, Header, Query auth) via HTTP Request nodes, but no granular endpoint documentation exists publicly. We handle this by using Lime Go's export capabilities and generic API endpoints discovered during scoping, and we implement conservative request pacing with retry logic and exponential backoff to avoid triggering undocumented throttling. This constraint can extend extraction time for large datasets compared to platforms with fully documented APIs like Freshsales.

  • Nordic enrichment data is read-only and does not migrate as CRM records

    Lime Go's built-in Nordic company database of 3.7 million businesses is a read-only enrichment layer, not user-owned CRM data. It does not migrate as Freshsales Contacts or Accounts. We flag these records separately during scoping so customers understand that prospecting enrichment data persists only if Freshsales' Freddy AI enrichment is configured post-migration or if the customer retains Lime Go solely for that purpose. The migration scope covers only user-created Customer, Contact, Deal, and Activity records.

  • Email-to-record associations require manual reconstruction

    Lime Go users report that email integrations are weak, forcing manual email logging against CRM records. During migration, we audit existing email-to-record associations in Lime Go and reconstruct those links in Freshsales where Freshsales' native email sync can maintain associations going forward. Without this step, email association history is silently lost and users may not discover the gap until post-migration when reviewing account timelines.

  • Freshsales Lead conversion field mapping must be configured before import

    Freshsales requires Lead custom fields to be explicitly mapped to Contact, Account, or Deal custom fields during Lead conversion; unmapped fields are lost on conversion. We pre-create all destination custom fields in Freshsales before import and configure the field mapping in Freshsales Admin Settings under Leads module. If Lime Go custom fields on Contacts are not pre-created in Freshsales before migration, their data will migrate but will be inaccessible after any Lead-to-Contact conversion in Freshsales.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Lime Go to Freshsales data migration

  1. Discovery and API scoping

    We audit the source Lime Go account across Customers, Contacts, Deals, Activities, Reminders, custom fields, tags, and document attachments. Because Lime Go lacks a documented public API, we test extraction via its generic HTTP authentication endpoints during scoping, measure response shapes, and estimate extraction time with conservative pacing. We pair this with a Freshsales account audit to identify existing Accounts, Contacts, custom fields, and pipeline stages. The discovery output is a written migration scope covering record counts, custom field schema, pipeline stage mapping, and a list of Lime Go enrichment records to be flagged separately.

  2. Freshsales schema preparation

    We pre-create all required Freshsales objects and fields before any data import. This includes configuring Deal Pipelines and Stages in Freshsales Admin Settings, creating custom fields on Account, Contact, and Deal to match the Lime Go tenant schema, and setting up Labels for tag migration. We also configure the Lead field mapping under Leads module so that any Lime Go contacts that qualify as Leads can convert without data loss. Schema preparation happens in the customer's Freshsales production environment or a sandbox if requested.

  3. Sample migration and reconciliation

    We run a test migration with a representative sample of Lime Go data—typically 50-100 records per entity type—into Freshsales. The customer reconciles field-level accuracy across a random sample of imported Accounts, Contacts, and Deals against the Lime Go source. We correct any field mapping errors, adjust date formats, and resolve any owner lookup failures before running the full migration. This step also validates the document attachment migration path and email association reconstruction logic.

  4. Full migration in dependency order

    We run production migration in record-dependency order: Accounts (from Lime Go Customers), Contacts (with AccountId resolved), Deals (with AccountId, OwnerId, and Pipeline/Stage resolved), Activities (Tasks, calls, emails, meetings via Freshsales API), History Notes, Documents as Attachments, and Labels last. GDPR consent flags on Contacts carry as custom properties throughout. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. We use Freshsales REST API with batch chunking and retry logic for large record sets.

  5. Enrichment gap documentation and automation inventory

    We deliver a written enrichment gap report identifying Lime Go Nordic company database records that could not migrate as CRM data, with a recommendation for Freshsales Freddy AI configuration or a third-party enrichment provider (Apollo.io, Clearbit, or similar) to restore prospecting coverage. Separately, we deliver a written inventory of Lime Go saved filters, automations, and workflows for the customer admin to rebuild in Freshsales. This document lists each automation's trigger, conditions, and actions with a recommended Freshsales equivalent (workflow rule, automation, or Freddy AI rule). We do not rebuild automations inside the migration scope.

  6. Cutover and validation

    We freeze writes in Lime Go during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records created or modified during the migration window, then validate the final record counts in Freshsales against the Lime Go source. The customer performs a final spot-check of key Accounts, Contacts, and Deals. We support a 48-hour post-migration verification window where we resolve any data issues raised by the customer's team. We do not provide ongoing admin support, training, or workflow rebuild as part of standard migration scope; these are separate engagements.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

Lime Go logo

Lime Go

Source

Strengths

  • Built-in Nordic company database with 3.7 million enriched business records for instant prospecting.
  • Visual adjustable sales pipeline with clear stage-by-stage deal tracking and team performance views.
  • User-friendly interface that sales teams adopt rapidly without extensive onboarding or training costs.
  • GDPR-compliant features including anonymisation, consent history tracking, and external data sharing controls.
  • Competitive pricing model with €40/user/month positioned below enterprise CRM alternatives for scaling Nordic teams.

Weaknesses

  • Limited third-party integrations require manual email logging and create data silos across communication channels.
  • No native project management capabilities—insufficient for teams needing CRM plus project tracking in one tool.
  • Batch task operations unavailable—users cannot group-select and update multiple reminders simultaneously.
  • Commenting system lacks nested replies, restricting collaborative note structure and team discussion depth.
  • No publicly documented API rate limits or comprehensive public REST API reference, complicating automated migration tooling.
Freshsales logo

Freshsales

Destination

Strengths

  • Generous free tier for small teams with core CRM functionality without per-seat costs.
  • All-in-one sales CRM with built-in telephony, chat, and email reducing third-party tool dependency.
  • Freddy AI contact scoring and deal predictions available on Pro tier.
  • Multiple pipeline views with Kanban and list options across all plans.

Weaknesses

  • Reports lack depth compared to competitors like HubSpot, with limited customization options.
  • Integration setup is poorly documented with no clear guides for connecting third-party tools.
  • AI features gated behind $39/user/month Pro tier despite marketing emphasis on Freddy AI.
  • Bot sessions limited to 500 one-time allocation with no monthly refresh.

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 Lime Go and Freshsales.

  • 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

    Lime Go: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

Estimator

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Most migrations land between two and four weeks for accounts under 10,000 Customers, 15,000 Contacts, and 2,000 Deals with a straightforward custom field schema. Migrations with large activity histories (over 100,000 records), multiple Lime Go custom field variants, or customers needing a full enrichment gap analysis move to five to eight weeks. The undocumented Lime Go API requires more conservative extraction pacing than fully documented platforms, which can add one to two weeks to the extraction phase compared to equivalent record volumes on platforms with published rate limits.

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