CRM migration

Migrate from My Practice Now to HighLevel

Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between My Practice Now and HighLevel. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in HighLevel.

My Practice Now logo

My Practice Now

Source

HighLevel

Destination

HighLevel logo

Compatibility

100%

10 of 10

objects map 1:1 between My Practice Now and HighLevel.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

48–72 hours

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

My Practice Now serves solo practitioners and small service businesses with appointment scheduling, client notes, invoicing, and recurring billing in a single interface. HighLevel replaces that stack with an all-in-one CRM that adds pipeline management, workflows, funnels, SMS/email marketing, and reputation tools under one subscription. The migration carries My Practice Now client records, appointments, invoices, notes, and custom fields into HighLevel's Contact, Company, Task, and custom-object schema via HighLevel's REST API. We resolve My Practice Now staff logins to HighLevel users by email match so records land with the correct owners. The gap that requires manual rebuild is My Practice Now automations — appointment reminders, follow-up sequences, and billing notifications — which do not export as portable logic and must be recreated in HighLevel's Workflow Builder. We deliver a test migration against a representative sample before committing the full dataset, run a 24–48 hour delta pickup after cutover, and provide a full audit log with rollback capability if reconciliation fails.

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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My Practice Now

What's pushing teams away

  • Capterra reviewers cite poor customer service and unresponsive support as primary churn drivers, with issues remaining unresolved long enough to erode trust.
  • Negative reviews describe the software as non-intuitive and complicated, contradicting positive reviews and suggesting a steep or inconsistent onboarding experience.
  • Multiple reviews note that implementation is time-consuming and lengthy, which frustrates small practices with limited administrative capacity.

Choosing

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HighLevel

What's pulling them in

  • Agencies choose HighLevel to consolidate CRM, email, SMS, scheduling, and funnels into one subscription, eliminating monthly bills for five to ten separate SaaS tools they previously stitched together.
  • The flat-rate pricing model bills per sub-account rather than per contact, so growing a contact database from 1,000 to 100,000 records does not trigger a billing surprise—a common pain point avoided by migrating customers.
  • White-label and sub-account capabilities let agencies resell HighLevel access to their own clients, turning a software cost center into a recurring revenue stream that justifies the subscription.
  • The platform ships a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, giving teams a low-friction entry point to validate fit before committing to the $97/month Starter tier.
  • Marketing agencies managing multiple client accounts use sub-accounts to maintain data isolation per client while operating under a single agency billing relationship with HighLevel.

Object mapping

How My Practice Now objects map to HighLevel

Each row shows how a My Practice Now object lands in HighLevel, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.

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

My Practice Now

Client

maps to

HighLevel

Contact

1:1
Fully supported

My Practice Now Client records map directly to HighLevel Contacts. Address, phone, email, and custom fields carry over as Contact properties. Owner resolution happens by email match against HighLevel users; unmatched clients get assigned to a fallback owner flagged for review.

My Practice Now

Appointment

maps to

HighLevel

Task / Event

1:1
Fully supported

My Practice Now appointments are split into two HighLevel objects based on type: task-oriented appointments (reminders, to-dos, follow-ups) become HighLevel Tasks with the original due date, time, and assigned user preserved as Task properties. Calendar-bookable appointments with specific start and end times become HighLevel Events linked to the Contact record, maintaining the full appointment schedule in HighLevel's calendar view.

My Practice Now

Invoice

maps to

HighLevel

Opportunity

1:1
Fully supported

My Practice Now invoices become HighLevel Opportunities with the paid amount stored as monetaryAmount and the invoice status mapped to a custom Opportunity status field. Unpaid invoices land in a 'Quote Sent' or 'Proposal' stage; paid invoices move to 'Won' with the close date set to the payment date.

My Practice Now

Company / Business

maps to

HighLevel

Company

1:1
Fully supported

If your My Practice Now setup stores separate company or business records distinct from client contacts, they migrate to HighLevel Companies. Company name, website, address, industry classification, and any custom fields carry over directly. Migrated Companies are then linked to their associated Contact records via the Contact's Company field lookup.

My Practice Now

Note

maps to

HighLevel

Note

1:1
Fully supported

My Practice Now client notes migrate as HighLevel Notes attached to the corresponding Contact record in HighLevel. The original note body text, create date, and last-modified date are all preserved during migration. Rich-text formatting present in My Practice Now notes gets converted to HighLevel's supported note format.

My Practice Now

Tag / Label

maps to

HighLevel

Tag

1:1
Fully supported

My Practice Now tags and labels migrate as HighLevel Tags on Contact records. If the same tag appears on multiple record types (client and invoice), we create separate tag entries per object type. You can specify tag-merge rules if the source uses inconsistent labeling.

My Practice Now

Recurring Billing

maps to

HighLevel

Custom Field + Opportunity

1:1
Fully supported

Recurring billing arrangements are handled using a dual-object approach: a custom field set on the Contact record stores the billing frequency (weekly, monthly, quarterly), next billing date, and billing amount; separate Opportunities are created for each completed billing cycle to preserve the full payment history without requiring HighLevel's commerce module.

My Practice Now

Custom Field (Client)

maps to

HighLevel

Custom Field (Contact)

1:1
Fully supported

My Practice Now custom fields on Client records become HighLevel custom fields on Contact. Field types are mapped: text fields to Single Line Text, number fields to Number, date fields to Date, and pick-list fields to Dropdown. Unique-field constraints are applied per HighLevel's limit of 10 unique fields per object.

My Practice Now

Custom Object

maps to

HighLevel

Custom Object

1:1
Fully supported

If My Practice Now has custom objects (e.g., for service-specific records), they map 1:1 to HighLevel Custom Objects. Associations between custom objects and Contacts become HighLevel Custom Object Associations. Each custom object can have up to 10 unique fields in HighLevel.

My Practice Now

Staff / Practitioner

maps to

HighLevel

User

1:1
Fully supported

My Practice Now staff or practitioner records are matched to HighLevel users by email address. Unmatched staff members are flagged in the pre-migration report — you either invite them to create HighLevel accounts first or reassign their records to a designated fallback user before migration runs.

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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My Practice Now gotchas

Medium

Research data is sparse and often misattributed

High

Thinkific export scope determines what we can migrate

Medium

Content files require separate media migration

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HighLevel gotchas

High

Sub-account architecture creates isolated data silos per client

High

Usage-based telecom and AI costs are not in the subscription price

Medium

Workflows have no native equivalent in most destination CRMs

Medium

API rate limits cap bulk migration throughput at 100 requests per 10 seconds per sub-account

Low

White-label configuration and branding assets do not export via API

Pair-specific challenges

  • Appointment reminders and follow-up sequences do not migrate

    My Practice Now automations — appointment confirmation emails, reminder SMS messages, follow-up sequences after invoice payment, and recurring billing notifications — are stored in My Practice Now's internal automation engine. HighLevel's Workflow Builder does not accept imported automation logic. FlitStack AI exports your My Practice Now automation definitions as a written reference document listing trigger events, conditions, and actions. Your HighLevel admin uses this to rebuild each workflow in HighLevel's visual builder. This is the most common post-migration gap and the step that requires the most planning time.

  • Invoice-to-Opportunity mapping requires pre-migration pipeline design

    HighLevel has no native invoice object. Past invoices from My Practice Now must map to Opportunities with custom status fields. If your My Practice Now invoices have complex line items, multiple taxes, or partial payments, the Opportunity model in HighLevel may need custom fields (e.g., Line_Items__c as a text block, Tax_Amount__c, Payment_Status__c) to preserve that detail. We create the field schema plan during the scoping phase so the pipeline is ready before data lands.

  • HighLevel API rate limits cap bulk export speed on large datasets

    HighLevel's API 2.0 allows 200,000 requests per day per sub-account, which determines how quickly large-scale data exports can proceed. For My Practice Now instances with more than 50,000 records, the migration must run in batches spread across multiple days to stay within these rate limits. FlitStack AI monitors request counts continuously during the migration run and automatically pauses when approaching the daily threshold, resuming when the limit resets. The delta-pickup window is extended accordingly to account for batched processing time and to capture any new records created during the batched migration window.

  • Custom object associations in My Practice Now may require junction objects in HighLevel

    If your My Practice Now custom objects link to each other (e.g., a Service record linked to multiple Clients), HighLevel's custom object association model must be designed before migration. HighLevel supports 1:many and many:many associations between custom objects, but the association type must be defined at migration time — it cannot be changed afterward without deleting and recreating records. We deliver an association map during the planning phase so your custom object schema is locked before the data moves.

  • Tag deduplication may be needed if My Practice Now uses inconsistent labeling

    My Practice Now users who manually create tags may have multiple variants of the same tag (e.g., 'New Client', 'new-client', 'NewClient'). HighLevel tags are case-insensitive but not automatically deduplicated, so inconsistent labeling creates duplicate tags in the destination system. We apply a tag-cleanup pass before migration: you provide the canonical tag list, or we flag duplicates for your review. Unresolved duplicate tags are merged into a single tag at your direction before records land in HighLevel, ensuring a clean tag taxonomy from day one.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful My Practice Now to HighLevel data migration

  1. Audit My Practice Now data model and export scope

    FlitStack AI connects to your My Practice Now account via API and inventories all objects: client records, appointments, invoices, notes, tags, and any custom objects. We count records per object type, identify custom fields and their data types, and flag any records with missing required fields (e.g., clients with no email address). The output is a data audit report that defines the exact migration scope and flags any objects that require pre-migration schema decisions in HighLevel.

  2. Design HighLevel schema and pipeline structure

    Based on the audit, FlitStack AI generates a HighLevel setup plan: which custom fields to create on Contact, how to model appointments as Tasks or Events, how to map invoices to Opportunities with the correct pipeline stages, and which custom objects to create. You review and approve the schema plan before any data moves. If your practice uses multiple pipelines (e.g., one for new clients, one for existing clients), we create a separate HighLevel pipeline for each.

  3. Resolve staff logins and tag deduplication

    We match My Practice Now staff accounts to HighLevel users by email address. Staff members without a corresponding HighLevel user account are flagged during this phase — you invite them to create HighLevel accounts or designate a fallback owner before migration proceeds. Simultaneously, we run a comprehensive tag-cleanup pass on your My Practice Now tag library to merge duplicates and standardize labels. You review and approve the final tag list before any data migrates.

  4. Run test migration with field-level verification

    A representative sample — typically 100–300 records across all object types including contacts, appointments, invoices, and any custom objects — migrates to HighLevel first in a controlled test environment. We generate a detailed field-level diff comparing source values against destination values so you can verify that appointment times, invoice amounts, custom field data, and owner assignments all transferred correctly. You sign off on the sample results before the full migration commits.

  5. Execute full migration with delta-pickup window

    The full dataset migrates to HighLevel in batches, with progress monitored against API rate limits. A delta-pickup window of 24–48 hours after the main migration run captures any new or modified records created in My Practice Now during the cutover period. All migration operations are logged in FlitStack AI's comprehensive audit trail. If reconciliation fails or errors are detected, one-click rollback reverts the destination to its pre-migration state.

  6. Deliver automation reference and post-migration checklist

    We export your My Practice Now automation definitions as a structured reference document for your HighLevel admin. The document captures triggers, conditions, and actions in a format suitable for recreation in HighLevel's Workflow Builder. The post-migration checklist covers: verifying record counts in HighLevel match the audit report, spot-checking custom field values, reviewing imported tags for accuracy, confirming owner assignments are correct, and rebuilding automations in HighLevel's visual workflow builder.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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My Practice Now

Source

Strengths

  • Combines appointment scheduling, invoicing, and client notes in a single interface for small practices
  • Intuitive and simple to use according to positive G2 reviewers
  • Responsive development team that incorporates user feature requests
  • Mobile app allows creating and accessing client notes on the go
  • Great tech support cited by satisfied users

Weaknesses

  • Poor customer service and slow issue resolution reported in negative reviews
  • Non-intuitive and complicated interface according to some users
  • Lengthy, time-consuming implementation process
  • Inconsistent user experience — same product praised as intuitive and criticized as confusing
  • Sparse public documentation makes research and comparison difficult
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HighLevel

Destination

Strengths

  • Consolidates CRM, marketing automation, email, SMS, scheduling, and funnels into one platform at a predictable flat monthly rate.
  • Supports unlimited contacts and unlimited users on all paid tiers, removing per-record billing anxiety as databases grow.
  • Offers white-label and sub-account capabilities that let agencies resell access and manage multiple client environments under one billing relationship.
  • Includes built-in review management, reputation monitoring, and AI agents as native features rather than third-party add-ons.
  • Exports Contacts and Companies via a scalable async bulk CSV system that handles multi-million-row datasets without blocking the UI.

Weaknesses

  • The breadth of features creates a steep learning curve; advanced automations and Workflow configuration require significant time investment that smaller teams may not recover.
  • The platform charges usage-based fees for telecommunications and AI features that are not included in the base subscription, leading to bill surprises.
  • Recurring user reports on Reddit and G2 describe bugs, errors, and slow support response times that disrupt live marketing and sales operations.
  • Sub-account architecture, while powerful for agencies, adds migration complexity when identifying which client data lives in which isolated environment.
  • The platform is designed for agencies and SMBs; larger enterprises requiring deep reporting, custom objects at scale, or complex role-based access may outgrow its capabilities.

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 My Practice Now and HighLevel.

  • 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

    My Practice Now: Not publicly documented at the individual storefront level; Thinkific generally applies org-level rate limits.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

Estimator

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions about My Practice Now to HighLevel data migrations

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Most My Practice Now to HighLevel migrations complete within 48–72 hours of clock time for datasets under 25,000 records. Larger datasets with custom objects or invoice history exceeding 25,000 records typically require 7–14 days to complete, including batched API processing to stay within HighLevel's rate limits. The longest step is usually the planning and schema design phase, where we define how invoices map to Opportunities and which custom fields to create in HighLevel.

Adjacent paths

Related migrations to explore

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