CRM migration

Migrate from Promio to Twenty CRM

Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Promio and Twenty CRM. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Twenty CRM.

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Promio

Source

Twenty CRM

Destination

Twenty CRM logo

Compatibility

60%

6 of 10

objects map 1:1 between Promio and Twenty CRM.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

3-5 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Promio to Twenty CRM is a structural consolidation: Promio centers on Leads, Campaigns, and lifecycle-segmented Customers tied to a bundled paid-advertising stack, while Twenty provides a self-hosted, open-source CRM with Company, Person, Opportunity, and Custom Object support. The migration is constrained by Promio's lack of a public API — all data extraction requires formal CSV export coordination through Promio's support or account management team. We resolve that dependency at the start of every engagement, then map Promio's lifecycle labels (New, Active, At-Risk, Lapsed, Lost) to custom Person fields in Twenty, preserve campaign performance history against Opportunities, and deliver an itemized landing page rebuild checklist as a migration artifact. Call recordings and Promio-hosted landing pages do not migrate. Workflows, drip sequences, and ad account credentials are out of scope and require independent rebuild or re-onboarding post-migration.

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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Promio

What's pushing teams away

  • Narrow vertical focus — Promio is tuned for local-services and franchise businesses, so SaaS companies, B2B tech firms, or non-local commerce models quickly outgrow the data model.
  • Limited public review and integration footprint compared with HubSpot or Birdeye — G2/Capterra coverage is thin, so prospective buyers cannot easily benchmark against the mainstream local-marketing stack.
  • Brand confusion with the unrelated German promio.net email-marketing platform makes due diligence harder; buyers must explicitly verify which 'Promio' they are evaluating.
  • Acquisition by Surefire Local introduces roadmap uncertainty — pricing, product positioning, and module bundling may shift as the Surefire portfolio consolidates, which is a real risk for customers signing multi-year deals.
  • Reputation-management workflows are tuned to US-style review platforms (Google, Yelp, Facebook); international or industry-specific review networks may not be supported natively.

Choosing

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Twenty CRM

What's pulling them in

  • Top open-source CRM on GitHub with 40.6K stars, giving teams full source code access and infrastructure ownership without per-feature licensing surprises.
  • Free self-hosting under AGPL-3.0 means unlimited users and custom objects for the cost of cloud infrastructure alone, typically $20–100/month.
  • Pricing page explicitly mocks competitors for charging add-on fees for API access, webhooks, and workflows — transparency that resonates with RevOps teams burned by Salesforce.
  • Unlimited custom objects and fields with no price impact, letting teams shape the data model to their business rather than forcing business into rigid schemas.
  • Modern TypeScript/React/PostgreSQL stack means developer-led teams can extend, self-host, or integrate without fighting legacy architecture.

Object mapping

How Promio objects map to Twenty CRM

Each row shows how a Promio object lands in Twenty CRM, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.

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

Promio

Lead

maps to

Twenty CRM

Person

1:1
Fully supported

Promio Leads map to Twenty Person records. We extract source attribution fields (campaign name, UTM parameters, referrer), call-tracking metadata (call duration, disposition, recording URL as text reference), and any custom properties discovered in the exported CSV headers. The original lead capture date migrates as a custom date field on the Person record because Twenty's standard Person object does not include a native source date field. Owner assignment maps from Promio's assigned user to Twenty's workspace Member via email match.

Promio

Customer

maps to

Twenty CRM

Person + Company (split required)

1:many
Fully supported

Promio's Customers object conflates contact and organization into a single record type. We split on the presence of company-level fields: records with a company name and domain map to Twenty Company records with the Person record linked via a work email; records without company context map directly to Person. Promio's lifecycle segmentation labels (New, Active, At-Risk, Lapsed, Lost) migrate as a custom select field on Person. This split requires a data quality review during scoping because Promio's export does not enforce a company-name field on all customer records.

Promio

Campaign

maps to

Twenty CRM

Opportunity

1:1
Fully supported

Promio Campaigns map to Twenty Opportunity records to preserve the advertising context of the customer journey. Campaign name becomes the Opportunity name; associated ad budget and performance metrics (impressions, clicks, cost, conversions) migrate as custom numeric fields on the Opportunity. We link the Opportunity to the associated Person and Company records via Twenty's Opportunity object relationships. Note that Promio's Campaign bundles advertising channels (Google, Bing, Display) with drip sequences — the sequence logic does not migrate and is documented as an automation rebuild requirement.

Promio

Advertising Account

maps to

Twenty CRM

Note on Company or Person

1:1
Fully supported

Google Ads and Bing Ads account credentials linked through Promio are stored externally at the ad network level and are not portable via CRM migration. We extract the campaign structure, budget allocations, and performance history as a CSV artifact that the customer uses to re-onboard ad accounts directly in Google Ads and Bing. We attach a summary Note record to the relevant Company or Person in Twenty documenting the original campaign structure for reference.

Promio

Call Recording

maps to

Twenty CRM

N/A — flagged as out-of-scope

1:1
Fully supported

Call recordings are hosted on Promio's infrastructure and are not included in CSV exports. We flag this as a hard-stop pre-flight item: the customer must download all required call recordings directly from Promio's interface before the migration cutover date. We cannot migrate these post-cutover. The recording URL reference in the exported call-tracking metadata is preserved as a text field on the Person record for audit traceability, but the audio file itself must be downloaded and hosted independently.

Promio

Landing Page

maps to

Twenty CRM

N/A — flagged as rebuild artifact

1:1
Fully supported

Promio landing pages are served from promio.com subdomains and are not exportable as portable HTML or redirect-configurable assets. We inventory all active landing pages during scoping — recording URL, form fields, and campaign association — and deliver a page-by-page rebuild requirements list as a migration artifact. The customer's web team or a developer uses this checklist to recreate pages in Twenty or on the customer's own domain.

Promio

Reputation / Review Data

maps to

Twenty CRM

Custom Field on Person

lossy
Fully supported

Review monitoring data (aggregated ratings, review site URLs, reputation scores) is pulled from third-party aggregators into Promio's dashboard. We extract this as a set of custom fields on the Person record in Twenty: overall_rating (number), review_count (number), primary_review_url (url), and review_site (text). We do not migrate review content itself; the URL reference allows a sales rep to open the review in a browser.

Promio

Custom Properties

maps to

Twenty CRM

Custom Object or Custom Field

lossy
Mapping required

Promio allows custom fields on Leads and Customers tied to its campaign attribution system. These are discovered during the extraction phase by inspecting exported CSV headers. We map each Promio custom property to a Twenty custom field on the appropriate standard object (Person or Company), using Twenty's supported field types (text, number, date, select, multi-select). Fields that represent a related entity (e.g., a reference to a campaign or external system) are mapped to a Twenty Custom Object with a lookup relationship if the data model warrants it.

Promio

Owner / Assigned User

maps to

Twenty CRM

WorkspaceMember

1:1
Fully supported

Promio's assigned user on Lead and Customer records maps to a Twenty workspace Member. We resolve by email match against the Twenty workspace user list provisioned before migration. Any Promio Owner without a matching Twenty Member is held in a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before record import begins. Note that Twenty's Member model is scoped per workspace and includes role-based permissions that the customer's admin configures post-migration.

Promio

Lifecycle Segment Label

maps to

Twenty CRM

Custom Select Field on Person

lossy
Fully supported

Promio's lifecycle labels (New, Active, At-Risk, Lapsed, Lost) are custom properties in Promio's schema. We map these as a custom select field lifecycle_segment__c on the Person object in Twenty with the same label values. This preserves the segmentation intelligence the customer has built in Promio and allows the customer's admin to use these labels in Twenty's filtering and grouping views without rebuilding the classification logic.

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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Promio gotchas

High

No public API forces manual or negotiated export

High

Call recordings live on Promio infrastructure

Medium

Ad account re-onboarding required after migration

Medium

Landing pages are Promio-hosted and non-portable

Low

Custom properties lack standard field documentation

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Twenty CRM gotchas

High

Import order is enforced and critical

High

Export limited to 20,000 records and visible columns only

Medium

Soft-deleted records count toward uniqueness and trigger restores

Medium

API rate limits cap at 200 req/min on Organization tier

Low

No native email sequences — follow-up cadences require external tools

Pair-specific challenges

  • Promio has no public API — export must be negotiated

    Promio does not publish a developer API or documented data export endpoints. All migration extraction goes through Promio's customer support or account management team. We submit a formal data export request on the customer's behalf and validate the completeness of the received files before transformation begins. Any delay in Promio responding to the export request extends the migration timeline. This is the primary schedule risk for every Promio migration and must be initiated as the first step in the engagement.

  • Twenty requires manual field creation before CSV import

    Twenty's standard Person and Company objects ship with minimal fields compared to HubSpot or Salesforce. A documented GitHub issue (Issue #13953) notes that users expect to immediately add contacts with standard information but must spend 30-60 minutes creating basic fields before they can import data. We handle field creation via Twenty's UI or metadata API before any CSV import runs. Promio's custom properties require the same pre-import setup. Skipping this step results in import errors or truncated records.

  • Call recordings do not migrate and must be downloaded before cutover

    Promio's call-tracking feature stores audio recordings on Promio's own hosting. These files are not included in standard CSV exports and cannot be retrieved via API. We include this as a pre-flight checklist item: the customer downloads all required call recordings from Promio's interface before the migration cutover date. After cutover, Promio access is terminated and recordings cannot be retrieved. We preserve the recording URL reference in the migrated Person record as a text field for audit purposes, but the actual audio file must be self-hosted or stored externally.

  • Promio landing pages are Promio-hosted and non-portable

    Custom landing pages created in Promio are served from promio.com subdomains and are not exportable as HTML or redirect-configurable assets. All landing page URLs and form fields must be rebuilt in Twenty or on the customer's own website. We inventory all active landing pages during scoping and deliver a page-by-page rebuild requirements list as a migration artifact. If the customer uses Promio as their primary lead capture infrastructure, this gap should be addressed before cutover to avoid broken lead flow.

  • Twenty is early-stage software with active development

    Twenty launched in 2023 and is under active development. GitHub issues document migration-related bugs (e.g., v1.0 database migration failures on fresh Docker/Kubernetes installs with missing core.keyValuePair tables). We run migrations against a validated Twenty release version and recommend the customer deploy to a staging environment before production import to catch any runtime issues. Twenty's feature set continues to evolve; some features present in established CRMs (advanced reporting, native calling, built-in sequences) are still in development or require third-party integration.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Promio to Twenty CRM data migration

  1. Export request coordination

    We submit a formal data export request to Promio on the customer's behalf and manage the back-and-forth with Promio's account management team. We validate the completeness of received CSV files against the customer's scoped record counts (Leads, Customers, Campaigns) before accepting them as the migration source of truth. Any discrepancies in record counts or missing fields trigger a re-export request. This step gates the entire migration timeline and is the primary schedule risk; we begin it immediately upon engagement kickoff.

  2. Data audit and field discovery

    We inspect the exported CSV headers to discover all active Promio fields, including any custom properties added after initial setup. We classify each field by data type, check for encoding issues (phone number formats, date formats, special characters in name fields), and identify duplicate records and orphaned relationships. We also inventory the active landing pages, call recordings list, and advertising accounts for the pre-flight checklist. The output is a data quality report and a scoped extraction confirmation.

  3. Twenty workspace setup and schema design

    We configure the destination Twenty workspace before any data import. This includes creating the custom fields on Person and Company that carry Promio's lifecycle segment labels, campaign attribution data, call metadata, and reputation scores; setting up any required Custom Objects; and creating workspace Members for each resolved owner. We validate against Twenty's current release version in a staging environment. The Twenty documentation requires fields to exist before import; we follow that sequence precisely.

  4. Customer-Account split and lifecycle segmentation

    We transform the Promio export in the dependency order that Twenty requires: Company records first (for Promio customers with company context), then Person records linked to Company via email and domain. The lifecycle segmentation labels (New, Active, At-Risk, Lapsed, Lost) are written to the lifecycle_segment__c custom field. Owner resolution maps Promio assigned users to Twenty workspace Members by email match. The split rule for Promio Customers that conflate person and organization is applied here, and any records that cannot be cleanly split are flagged for the customer's admin to resolve.

  5. Campaign and attribution migration

    Promio Campaigns migrate as Twenty Opportunity records with custom fields carrying advertising channel, budget, impressions, clicks, cost, and conversion data. Each Opportunity is linked to the associated Person and Company via Twenty's Opportunity object relationships. Advertising account credentials are not migrated (they are ad-network-level and non-portable); instead, we deliver a structured CSV of campaign structure and budget history that the customer uses to re-onboard ad accounts independently. The drip sequence logic bundled into Promio Campaigns is documented as an automation rebuild item.

  6. Cutover, validation, and artifact delivery

    We freeze writes in Promio during the cutover window, run a delta migration of any records modified during the migration process, and enable Twenty as the system of record. We deliver the complete data export received from Promio (archived), the migration reconciliation report (record counts per object, any unmapped fields or unresolved owners), the landing page rebuild checklist, and the advertising account re-onboarding reference CSV. We do not rebuild Promio workflows, sequences, or landing pages inside the migration scope; these are separate workstreams for the customer's admin or a developer.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Promio

Source

Strengths

  • Bundled paid search (Google, Bing) with automated bid optimization and no separate ad platform needed.
  • Guaranteed revenue ROI in 90 days or less, which reduces risk for cash-strapped local businesses.
  • Automated multi-stage customer lifecycle campaigns (new, at-risk, lapsed, lost) with minimal manual setup.
  • Mobile lead management via iPhone and Android apps for field sales and service crews.
  • Unified attribution reporting that ties marketing spend to exact revenue generated per campaign.

Weaknesses

  • No publicly documented API — all data export must be negotiated with Promio or performed manually via CSV.
  • Landing pages and call recordings are hosted on Promio's infrastructure and are not portable on migration.
  • Ad account credentials are linked to Promio's managed service layer; migrating away requires re-onboarding Google/Bing accounts independently.
  • Platform is built for local marketing use cases; teams needing broader CRM, ERP, or custom object support will outgrow it quickly.
  • Small team (approximately 10 employees as of latest data) creates support continuity risk for larger franchise rollouts.
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Twenty CRM

Destination

Strengths

  • AGPL-3.0 open-source license with full source code on GitHub — no vendor lock-in, no sunset risk.
  • Unlimited users and unlimited custom objects on self-hosted, with no feature gating based on headcount.
  • REST and GraphQL APIs available on all paid tiers, not locked behind an enterprise add-on fee.
  • MCP server and webhooks shipped as standard features, not premium upgrades.
  • Modern PostgreSQL-backed data model that developer teams can query, extend, and self-host.

Weaknesses

  • Recent v1.0 release means limited production hardening compared to CRMs with multi-year operational track records.
  • No native email sequencing or sales engagement tools — follow-up cadences require a separate platform.
  • No native two-way email sync or inbox integration, requiring third-party connectors for full activity logging.
  • Self-hosting 'free' pricing hides real infrastructure and DevOps costs that stack up over time.
  • Workflow automation is functional but lacks the complexity needed for sophisticated multi-step sales motions.

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 Promio and Twenty CRM.

  • 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

    Promio: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

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Most Promio migrations complete in three to five weeks for accounts under 10,000 records with no complex custom object dependencies. Migrations with large campaign attribution histories, multi-segment lifecycle data (New, Active, At-Risk, Lapsed, Lost across thousands of records), or Promio exports that require multiple rounds of completeness validation move to six to ten weeks. The primary schedule risk is Promio's response time on the data export request; we begin that coordination immediately upon engagement kickoff to minimize delays.

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