CRM migration

Migrate from RedEye to HubSpot

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

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RedEye

Source

HubSpot

Destination

HubSpot logo

Compatibility

82%

9 of 11

objects map 1:1 between RedEye and HubSpot.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

48–72 hours of active migration time

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

RedEye is a B2C marketing automation platform built around customers, campaigns, and programs, with behavioral tracking and cross-channel campaign orchestration as its core functions. HubSpot CRM stores data as contacts, companies, deals, and activities, with lifecycle stages and deal pipelines as the primary customer journey anchors. These platforms have fundamentally different data architectures: RedEye tracks customers and behavioral events; HubSpot tracks contacts, companies, and deals with a lifecycle progression model. FlitStack AI extracts customer profiles, campaign membership, engagement history, and program records from RedEye via API, maps them into HubSpot's contact and deal schema, and preserves campaign and program identifiers as custom contact and deal properties for reference. Workflows, campaign logic, and automation rules cannot migrate and must be rebuilt in HubSpot — we export the full RedEye automation structure as a rebuild reference document. The migration runs via HubSpot's native import and API endpoints, with a sample migration and field-level diff before the full run, followed by a delta-pickup window capturing any in-flight changes during cutover.

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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RedEye

What's pushing teams away

  • Contact database size is capped per tier (150,000 on Essentials) and upselling to higher volumes can arrive without warning, making growth-stage brands feel price-pressured.
  • Reporting dashboards are described as basic by power users who want deeper drill-down and custom analytics beyond the built-in charts and dashboards.
  • The platform has a learning curve; reviewers note that initial onboarding guidance is insufficient and some features take time to master without better in-app documentation.
  • Drag-and-drop campaign building and auto-save functionality are absent, creating friction for marketers accustomed to more modern no-code UX patterns.

Choosing

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HubSpot

What's pulling them in

  • Lowest barrier to entry of any major CRM — the free tier with unlimited contacts lets teams validate fit before committing to a paid plan, according to G2 and Capterra reviewers.
  • Native integration between the CRM and sales engagement tools (sequences, email tracking, dialer) means no separate sync configuration, a theme across G2 Sales Hub reviews.
  • Pipeline visualization, deal tracking, and automated workflows are consistently praised as intuitive and easy to set up without developer involvement.
  • Strong onboarding for new team members — reviewers on Capterra and G2 highlight how quickly new reps become productive without formal training.
  • The HubSpot platform ecosystem (Marketing, Sales, Service, CMS hubs) allows growing companies to consolidate tools without building new integrations.

Object mapping

How RedEye objects map to HubSpot

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

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

RedEye

Customer (profile)

maps to

HubSpot

Contact

1:1
Fully supported

RedEye customer profiles map directly to HubSpot contacts. Every RedEye customer record becomes a HubSpot contact with standard properties (first name, last name, email, phone) pulled from the profile fields. Customers without email addresses require review before migration — HubSpot requires an email for full contact record creation, or a contact can be created without email and flagged for enrichment.

RedEye

Campaign

maps to

HubSpot

Deal

1:1
Fully supported

RedEye campaigns map to HubSpot deals when the campaign has an associated revenue or financial target. Campaign name becomes the deal name; campaign budget or target amount maps to the deal amount. Campaign identifiers are preserved in a custom field on the deal for traceability. For awareness campaigns without a revenue target, we recommend a dedicated 'Campaign Reference' custom property on contacts rather than deal records.

RedEye

Program

maps to

HubSpot

Deal (or custom property)

1:many
Fully supported

RedEye programs may represent enrollment-based logic (e.g., loyalty tiers, nurture programs). Each active program enrollment that has a commercial value maps to a HubSpot deal. Programs that track customer status without revenue (e.g., onboarding stage) are better expressed as custom contact properties with the program name as the property name and the enrollment status as the pick-list value.

RedEye

Campaign / Program membership

maps to

HubSpot

Custom contact property + Deal

many:1
Fully supported

RedEye records which customers are enrolled in which campaigns and programs as N:N associations. We map these to a HubSpot contact property capturing the campaign name and enrollment date, and link each campaign to a corresponding deal record when a revenue target exists. This preserves the 'enrolled in' relationship without creating a separate junction object.

RedEye

Email engagement (opens, clicks)

maps to

HubSpot

Engagement records on Contact

1:1
Fully supported

RedEye email engagement events (opens, clicks, bounces) map to HubSpot engagement records associated with the contact. Each engagement records the campaign name, timestamp, and action type. HubSpot surfaces these as engagement timeline entries on the contact record. Original RedEye timestamps are preserved for reporting continuity.

RedEye

Event attendance

maps to

HubSpot

Activity (meeting/call) on Contact

1:1
Fully supported

RedEye event records (registrations and attendance) map to HubSpot meeting or call activities on the contact. The event name becomes the activity subject; attendance status (registered, attended, no-show) is captured in a custom property or activity notes field. Event dates are preserved as the activity start time.

RedEye

Product record

maps to

HubSpot

Deal (line item) or custom property

1:1
Fully supported

RedEye product catalog records map to deal line items in HubSpot when available in the Sales Hub Professional tier. In Starter or basic tiers, product references are captured as custom properties on the deal record. We recommend evaluating HubSpot's product catalog setup before migration if product-to-deal linking is a core reporting requirement.

RedEye

Behavioral score / engagement score

maps to

HubSpot

Custom number property on Contact

1:1
Fully supported

RedEye's behavioral scoring model has no native equivalent in HubSpot. We create a custom numeric property on the contact record (e.g., RedEye_Engagement_Score__c) and map the most recent score value at migration time. Scores update over time through HubSpot's own lead scoring workflows, which are rebuilt post-migration.

RedEye

Company / organization

maps to

HubSpot

Company

1:1
Fully supported

RedEye customer records may include an associated company or organization. These map to HubSpot company records with company name, domain, industry, employee count, and annual revenue fields. When a RedEye customer has no associated company, a 'No Company' placeholder company is created or the contact is flagged as unassociated for your admin to resolve.

RedEye

Campaign workflow / automation rule

maps to

HubSpot

N/A (not migrated)

1:1
Fully supported

RedEye campaign workflows, program enrollment triggers, and behavioral automation rules do not have a migration path to HubSpot. We export the full workflow definitions — trigger conditions, branch logic, channel steps, and timing rules — as a structured reference document that your team or a HubSpot partner uses to rebuild the automations inside HubSpot's workflow engine after migration.

RedEye

Campaign / program configuration

maps to

HubSpot

N/A (not migrated)

1:1
Fully supported

Campaign configuration (sending domains, sender profiles, suppression lists, A/B test settings) is a RedEye platform configuration, not a data record. It cannot be exported and re-imported into HubSpot. Sending domain verification and sender profile setup must be reconfigured in HubSpot's email settings post-migration.

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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RedEye gotchas

High

Contact database size limits differ by pricing tier

Medium

Campaign journey logic does not export as a portable schema

Medium

Reports and dashboards are not exportable

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HubSpot gotchas

High

Marketing Contacts billing model is migration-critical

High

Feature tier gating is not visible until onboarding

Medium

Mandatory onboarding fees inflate year-one cost

Medium

HubSpot CSV importer cannot migrate engagements or attachments

Medium

Custom objects require Enterprise and a pre-existing schema

Pair-specific challenges

  • RedEye behavioral data has no native lifecycle stage equivalent in HubSpot

    RedEye tracks customer engagement levels through behavioral scores and campaign enrollment, but HubSpot uses lifecycle_stage (subscriber, lead, MQL, SQL, opportunity, customer, evangelist) as its primary contact progression model. RedEye behavioral data cannot map automatically to a specific HubSpot lifecycle stage because RedEye does not store the same progression semantics. We default all migrated contacts to a configurable initial lifecycle stage (typically 'lead' or 'customer' based on your specification) and preserve the RedEye engagement score as a custom property. Your team uses the engagement score to re-segment contacts into appropriate HubSpot lifecycle stages via a HubSpot workflow post-migration.

  • RedEye campaigns and programs cannot be imported as HubSpot objects

    RedEye campaigns and programs are configuration objects with enrollment rules, channel steps, timing logic, and suppression settings that are specific to RedEye's automation engine. HubSpot has no equivalent object that accepts these attributes as a data import. We extract all campaign and program metadata as a structured reference export, but the campaign logic must be rebuilt inside HubSpot's workflow builder. The volume of campaigns and programs in RedEye determines how much rebuild effort is required post-migration. We flag the campaign and program count during discovery so your team can plan the rebuild scope accordingly.

  • RedEye N:N customer-to-company associations require deduplication and company resolution

    RedEye allows a customer record to be associated with multiple organizations or no organization at all, with no enforced primary-company field. HubSpot requires contacts to associate with at least one company record for most features to function correctly. We resolve the primary company for each customer by selecting the most recently modified association (or a rule you specify), create that company in HubSpot first, and then link the contact. Any secondary company associations that need preserving are captured as additional Company associations on the contact record. Unassociated customers are flagged in the migration report for manual review.

  • HubSpot contact-based billing means migrated records may affect your HubSpot plan tier

    HubSpot billing is based on the number of marketing contacts stored in your portal (contacts that receive marketing emails). RedEye customers migrated as HubSpot contacts count toward this limit. We flag all migrated contacts with a 'migrated_from_redeye__c' property set to true so you can separate migrated contacts from new inbound contacts. This is important for budgeting your HubSpot plan accurately post-migration, especially if a large volume of inactive or cold RedEye customers are included in the migration scope.

  • RedEye sending domain and email authentication records must be reconfigured in HubSpot

    RedEye manages sender authentication (SPF, DKIM, custom tracking domains) for the campaigns you run through its platform. When you move to HubSpot, all sending domains must be verified inside HubSpot's email settings, and DNS records must be updated to point to HubSpot's mail infrastructure. This is a manual step that your IT team or DNS administrator performs post-migration. If your RedEye campaigns use a branded sending domain (e.g., sends from [email protected]), the equivalent must be set up in HubSpot before you send marketing emails from the new platform.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful RedEye to HubSpot data migration

  1. Extract and audit RedEye data via API

    FlitStack AI connects to RedEye via its API using scoped read access and extracts all customer profiles, campaign records, program enrollment data, engagement events, and company associations. We run a data quality audit against the extracted dataset, flagging duplicate records, missing email addresses, records without company associations, and records with invalid dates. This audit output determines the deduplication and company-resolution rules applied during migration and is shared with your team for confirmation before field mapping is finalized.

  2. Define HubSpot property schema and field mapping plan

    We map each RedEye data field to its HubSpot equivalent based on the field_mapping specification above. RedEye custom fields and behavioral scores that have no native HubSpot counterpart are created as custom properties on the contact or deal object before migration. Campaign and program identifiers are mapped to custom deal properties and contact properties for traceability. This schema plan is reviewed with your HubSpot admin so the custom properties are created in the correct data types (text, number, date, pick-list) before the migration run.

  3. Resolve company associations and deduplicate customer records

    RedEye customer records with multiple or missing company associations are resolved against the HubSpot company model. We create HubSpot company records first, then link each resolved customer to their primary company. Duplicate customer records in RedEye (identified by matching email address) are flagged for your review — we recommend collapsing duplicates before migration to avoid duplicate contacts landing in HubSpot. Any secondary company associations are preserved as additional company links on the contact record.

  4. Run sample migration with field-level diff

    A representative slice of 100–500 records — covering contacts from multiple campaigns, program enrollees, and a sample of engagement event records — migrates first into your HubSpot sandbox or a shadow portal. We generate a field-level diff comparing the RedEye source values against the HubSpot destination values for every mapped field. You review the diff to confirm that campaign-to-deal mapping, company resolution, lifecycle stage defaults, and engagement score migration meet your expectations before the full migration is approved.

  5. Execute full migration with delta pickup

    The full migration runs against your live HubSpot portal. A delta-pickup window of 24–48 hours after the migration completes captures any customer records created or modified in RedEye during the cutover period. Your team continues working in RedEye throughout the migration window — FlitStack AI uses scoped read access that does not affect RedEye operations. After the delta pickup, we run a reconciliation report comparing record counts and key field completeness between RedEye's final state and HubSpot's loaded state.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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RedEye

Source

Strengths

  • Dedicated sending infrastructure with warm-up plans and inbox monitoring included on all paid tiers.
  • Unlimited email sends and event storage removes per-campaign volume anxiety for high-frequency senders.
  • Multi-channel campaign orchestration (up to nine channels) consolidates what many teams run across separate tools.
  • Strong B2C lifecycle marketing focus with retailer, travel, and financial sector expertise built into the product design.
  • AI predictive analytics and customer lifetime value modelling available on the Elevate tier.

Weaknesses

  • Contact database size limits (150,000 on Essentials) create a hard ceiling that triggers tier upgrades unexpectedly for growing brands.
  • Native reporting is described as basic by power users and lacks the drill-down depth available in standalone BI platforms.
  • Absence of drag-and-drop campaign building and auto-save creates UX friction for marketers used to modern no-code builders.
  • Steep learning curve without guided onboarding means teams spend more time self-discovering features than driving value.
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HubSpot

Destination

Strengths

  • Genuinely useful free CRM tier with no seat limit on contact records.
  • All-in-one sales engagement layer (sequences, email tracking, calling, dialer) embedded natively in the CRM, eliminating a separate integration.
  • Intuitive interface and fast onboarding for individual reps, per G2 and Capterra reviews.
  • Workflow automation triggers across contacts, deals, and tickets with a visual builder.
  • API coverage for all standard objects including custom objects at Enterprise tier.

Weaknesses

  • Pricing model is contact-based at the marketing layer — importing all records as marketing contacts can multiply the monthly bill by 4×.
  • Feature tier cliffs are frequent surprises: sequences, calling, advanced reporting, and quoting are all gated, often requiring plan upgrades mid-implementation.
  • Mandatory onboarding fees at Professional ($1,500) and Enterprise ($3,500) are not prominently disclosed on the pricing page.
  • API rate limits are restrictive for bulk migration — burst limits of 100-200 req/10sec and search endpoint limits of 4 req/sec require careful job queuing.
  • Custom objects, additional pipelines, and advanced forecasting are Enterprise-only, making cost projections difficult for growing teams.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Standard CRM migration. 3 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 RedEye and HubSpot.

  • Object compatibility

    B

    3 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

    RedEye: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

Estimator

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions about RedEye to HubSpot data migrations

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Most RedEye-to-HubSpot migrations complete within 48–72 hours of active migration time for datasets under 50,000 customer records. Larger datasets with years of campaign engagement history, multiple programs, and high record volumes extend the timeline to 3–5 days. The longest planning step is designing the campaign-to-deal and program-to-property mapping, which happens before any data movement begins. Discovery and field-mapping planning typically adds 1–2 weeks before the migration run.

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