CRM migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Marketing 360 and Pipedrive. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Pipedrive.
Marketing 360
Source
Pipedrive
Destination
Compatibility
9 of 11
objects map 1:1 between Marketing 360 and Pipedrive.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Moving from Marketing 360 to Pipedrive is a shift from an all-in-one SMB marketing platform to a sales-focused CRM built for pipeline management. Marketing 360 centers on Contacts with bundled marketing tools, social scheduling, website hosting, and embedded payments; Pipedrive is a kanban-first sales CRM with a REST API that handles People, Organizations, Deals, and Activities. We extract Contacts from Marketing 360 via paginated CRM API reads since the platform lacks a bulk export endpoint, preserve custom field values and tag memberships, map assignee references to Pipedrive Users, and sequence Engagement history (calls, emails, meetings, tasks, notes) into Pipedrive Activities. UXi website Posts and Pages export as XML content only; layout files, theme configuration, and root-domain media assets do not migrate. Automation journeys are not exposed via the Marketing 360 API and must be manually recreated in Pipedrive or documented for rebuild. We do not migrate Workflows, Sequences, Forms, or Payments configuration as these live outside the CRM export scope.
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 Marketing 360 object lands in Pipedrive, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Marketing 360
Contact
Pipedrive
Person
1:1Marketing 360 Contact records map directly to Pipedrive Person. The contact's id becomes the external reference field; firstName and lastName map to name fields; email and phone migrate as typed fields. We resolve the contactName composite field and split it into first and last name where the source field is structured. Duplicate detection uses email as the dedupe key; records with matching emails receive a conflict flag for the customer to resolve before final insert.
Marketing 360
Custom Fields
Pipedrive
Custom Fields
1:1Marketing 360 exposes a dedicated Custom Fields API with id-value pairs per contact. We extract the full custom field schema during discovery, pre-create matching custom fields in Pipedrive (with equivalent field types: text, number, date, dropdown, checkbox), and preserve all values as first-class fields during migration. Custom field ordering and grouping in Pipedrive is applied after migration during the configuration phase.
Marketing 360
Tags
Pipedrive
Labels
1:1Marketing 360 contact tag arrays (with id and tag name) map to Pipedrive Labels. We extract the complete tag taxonomy from the API and apply tag memberships to migrated Persons. Tag-to-label mapping preserves segmentation logic used for contact filtering and marketing audience building. If a Marketing 360 tag has no matching Pipedrive label, we create it during migration.
Marketing 360
Assignees
Pipedrive
User
1:1Marketing 360 stores assignees as username, fullName, and email nested under contact records. We map assignee email to Pipedrive User email for resolution. Any assignee without a matching Pipedrive User is assigned to the migration service account and flagged in the reconciliation report for the customer admin to provision or reassign post-migration.
Marketing 360
Statuses and Types
Pipedrive
Person Type or Custom Fields
lossyMarketing 360 uses arbitrary name/id pairs for contact Statuses and Types. We extract the full taxonomy from the API and evaluate whether each maps to Pipedrive's built-in Person type field (customer, company,未知) or requires a custom field. The customer chooses the mapping strategy during scoping, and we apply it as a value map during the transform phase.
Marketing 360
Engagement: Call
Pipedrive
Activity (Call type)
1:1Marketing 360 call engagements map to Pipedrive Activity with type = call. We extract call duration, disposition, and timestamp from the engagement record and populate Pipedrive's Activity fields accordingly. Activity ownership resolves via the assignee mapping.
Marketing 360
Engagement: Email
Pipedrive
Activity (Email type)
1:1Marketing 360 email engagements map to Pipedrive Activity with type = email. The email subject, body, and timestamp migrate as Activity subject, note, and due date. Email attachments migrate as linked files if accessible via the Marketing 360 media export.
Marketing 360
Engagement: Meeting
Pipedrive
Activity (Meeting type)
1:1Marketing 360 meeting engagements map to Pipedrive Activity with type = meeting. We preserve start time, duration, location, and attendee list where available. Activity attendees link to Person records resolved by email match.
Marketing 360
Engagement: Task
Pipedrive
Activity (Task type)
1:1Marketing 360 task engagements map to Pipedrive Activity with type = task. Status, priority, due date, and completion status migrate directly. Task assignment resolves via the assignee mapping to Pipedrive User.
Marketing 360
Engagement: Note
Pipedrive
Note
1:1Marketing 360 note engagements map to Pipedrive Note records attached to the Person. Note content migrates as rich text; note timestamps are preserved as activity dates. Notes without an associated Person receive a flag for manual association post-migration.
Marketing 360
UXi Posts and Pages
Pipedrive
N/A (content export only)
lossyThe UXi export tool produces XML containing Posts, Pages, Testimonials, and Media. We extract text content, categories, tags, and media references from the XML export and deliver them as structured content files. Layout files, theme configuration, and root-domain media assets are not included in the export and are flagged as a separate rebuild workstream. We do not rebuild the website design on any destination CMS as part of the CRM migration scope.
| Marketing 360 | Pipedrive | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | Person1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Fields | Custom Fields1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Tags | Labels1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Assignees | User1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Statuses and Types | Person Type or Custom Fieldslossy | Mapping required | |
| Engagement: Call | Activity (Call type)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Engagement: Email | Activity (Email type)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Engagement: Meeting | Activity (Meeting type)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Engagement: Task | Activity (Task type)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Engagement: Note | Note1:1 | Fully supported | |
| UXi Posts and Pages | N/A (content export only)lossy | 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.
Marketing 360 gotchas
UXi website export does not include layout files
Automation journeys are not accessible via API
Bulk contact export requires pagination over the CRM API
Payments configuration is outside the CRM data model
Pipedrive gotchas
Custom field hash keys differ per account
Export access gated by visibility groups
Token-based API rate limits since December 2024
Sequences and Automations not exposed via REST API
Cost escalates via workflow caps and add-ons
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and contact volume audit
We audit the Marketing 360 account via the CRM API to document the contact schema (standard fields, custom fields, tag taxonomy, assignee list), count records per object, and identify engagement volume. We also extract the UXi XML export to inventory Posts, Pages, and Media for the content deliverable. The discovery output is a written scope document with record counts, schema inventory, and explicit flagging of UXi content limitations and automation journey locations.
Pipedrive account setup and custom field pre-creation
Before any data migration, we work with the customer to configure Pipedrive: create the pipeline and stages (mapped from Marketing 360 contact statuses if deal-tracking is in scope), pre-create custom fields matching the Marketing 360 schema, invite Users matching the assignee list, and configure the Person type taxonomy. Pipedrive's custom field creation UI is used for initial setup; bulk custom field creation can use the API for efficiency. This phase runs in parallel with source data extraction.
Source data extraction and deduplication
We extract contacts via paginated CRM API reads, chunking by offset and limit parameters. Custom field values are extracted per contact via the custom fields endpoint. Tag memberships are extracted as a separate taxonomy file. Engagement history (calls, emails, meetings, tasks, notes) is extracted per contact with timestamps preserved. Before loading, we run deduplication on email address as the primary key, flagging duplicate contacts for the customer to resolve.
Schema mapping workbook and pipeline design
We build a mapping workbook that documents every field-level mapping from Marketing 360 to Pipedrive: contact fields to Person fields, custom fields to custom fields (with type verification), tags to labels, assignees to Users, statuses and types to Person type or custom fields. If deal tracking is in scope, we design the Pipedrive pipeline stages mapped from the source contact status taxonomy, with placeholder values for any deal fields that have no source equivalent.
Pilot migration and reconciliation
We run a pilot migration of 50-100 contacts and their associated engagements into Pipedrive to validate the mapping, verify custom field population, check assignee resolution, and confirm label application. The customer reconciles the pilot records against the source and signs off the mapping before full production migration. Corrections to the mapping workbook happen here, not in production.
Production migration and UXi content delivery
We run production migration in dependency order: Users (validated), custom fields (pre-created), Persons (with dedupe applied and assignee resolved), Labels (created and applied), Activities (calls, emails, meetings, tasks, notes linked to Person by email match). Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report. We deliver the UXi content XML and extracted files as a separate package with an inventory manifest and a rebuild scope document. Payment processing configuration is flagged as an out-of-scope workstream.
Cutover, validation, and automation rebuild handoff
We freeze writes to Marketing 360 during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then mark Pipedrive as the system of record. We deliver the automation journey inventory document to the customer with a rebuild checklist mapped to Pipedrive workflow equivalents. We support a five-day hypercare window for reconciliation issues. We do not rebuild Marketing 360 automations as Pipedrive workflows inside the migration scope; that is a separate engagement.
Platform deep dives
Marketing 360
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Pipedrive
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard CRM migration. 3 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 Marketing 360 and Pipedrive.
Object compatibility
3 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
Marketing 360: Not publicly documented by Marketing 360.
Data volume sensitivity
Marketing 360 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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