CRM migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Rizer and Freshsales. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Freshsales.
Rizer
Source
Freshsales
Destination
Compatibility
4 of 8
objects map 1:1 between Rizer and Freshsales.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
2-3 weeks
Overview
Moving from Rizer to Freshsales is a consolidation migration as well as a capability upgrade. Rizer users on the Starter plan face a 500 API calls/month ceiling that makes automated migration impractical without tier upgrade, while Freshsales offers a free plan for up to three users, built-in phone at Growth, and AI-powered lead scoring from the Pro tier upward. Rizer's dual-product model (Rizer Social for marketing contacts and Rize for time-tracking) requires two separate export scopes, and we scope both before migration begins. We map Rizer Contacts to Freshsales Leads or Contacts, Companies to Accounts, Deals to Opportunities with stage translation, and referral attribution data to a Freshsales custom field. Workflows, email sequences, and social scheduling automations do not migrate; we deliver a written inventory of every active workflow with its trigger conditions and recommended Freshsales workflow equivalent for the customer's admin to rebuild post-migration.
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 Rizer 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.
Rizer
Contact
Freshsales
Lead or Contact (split by lifecycle stage)
1:manyRizer Contacts map to Freshsales Lead for records with early lifecycle stages (subscriber, lead) and to Freshsales Contact for records at sales qualified and customer stages. We compute the split using Rizer's lifecycle stage property at transform time and write the original Rizer stage value to a custom field rizer_lifecycle_stage__c on the destination record for audit continuity. Email serves as the dedupe key for both objects. Referral source attribution from Rizer's Contact record maps to a custom field referral_source__c on the destination Lead or Contact.
Rizer
Company
Freshsales
Account
1:1Rizer Company records map directly to Freshsales Account. The Company domain or website property becomes the Account Website field and the dedupe key during import. Account is created before Contact import so that the AccountId lookup is satisfied at Contact insert. Industry tags and custom company properties migrate to Freshsales custom fields that we pre-create during schema design.
Rizer
Client (Rize time-tracking)
Freshsales
Account
1:1Rize Client records (from the separate rize.io product) map to Freshsales Account objects with a custom field product_source__c = 'Rize' to distinguish them from Rizer Social Company records. We treat the Rize export as a separate scoped pass. Projects and Tasks from Rize map to Freshsales Deals (tagged with a custom pipeline for time-tracking) or to Tasks under the parent Account, depending on the customer's chosen data model in Freshsales.
Rizer
Deal
Freshsales
Opportunity
1:1Rizer Deals map to Freshsales Opportunity. The Rizer dealstage property maps to Freshsales StageName using a stage translation table defined during scoping. Pipeline assignment from Rizer maps to a Freshsales pipeline that we configure before migration. Amount, currency, closing date, and owner all migrate directly. Deals without an associated Company in Rizer receive the AccountId of the nearest parent Company or are held in a reconciliation queue for the customer to resolve before Opportunity import.
Rizer
Team Member (Rizer Social + Rize)
Freshsales
User
1:1Rizer Social Team Members and Rize Team Members both map to Freshsales User records. We resolve by email match against the Freshsales User table. Any Rizer owner without a matching Freshsales User goes to a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before record import resumes. Role assignments (admin, manager, member) map to Freshsales role hierarchy entries that we document during scoping.
Rizer
Custom Field (Referrizer API)
Freshsales
Custom Field (Freshsales)
lossyRizer's Referrizer custom fields are key-value pairs stored as strings without enforced type constraints. We inspect raw values during the extract phase and infer data type (date, number, multi-select, text) before writing to Freshsales custom fields of matching type. Multi-select fields stored as comma-delimited text in Rizer are split and written to Freshsales multi-select picklist fields. We pre-create all Freshsales custom fields in the destination account before any record migration begins so that import rows are not rejected for unknown column headers.
Rizer
Workflow
Freshsales
Workflow (documented for rebuild)
lossyRizer Workflow sequences attached to Contact lifecycle stage transitions and tag triggers do not migrate to Freshsales because the trigger model and action set differ. We extract every active Workflow with its trigger conditions, delay rules, branching logic, and CRM actions and deliver them as a written inventory document. The customer's admin rebuilds each workflow in Freshsales' Automation section (available from Growth plan) using the inventory as a configuration guide.
Rizer
Tag
Freshsales
Multi-Select Picklist
lossyRizer tags applied to Contacts are flat string lists. We map these to Freshsales multi-select picklist fields on the Lead or Contact object. We scope the tag vocabulary during discovery and pre-create the picklist values in Freshsales so that import rows with tag values are not rejected. Tags used for referral segmentation map to the referral_source__c custom field instead.
| Rizer | Freshsales | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | Lead or Contact (split by lifecycle stage)1:many | Fully supported | |
| Company | Account1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Client (Rize time-tracking) | Account1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Deal | Opportunity1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Team Member (Rizer Social + Rize) | User1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Field (Referrizer API) | Custom Field (Freshsales)lossy | Fully supported | |
| Workflow | Workflow (documented for rebuild)lossy | Fully supported | |
| Tag | Multi-Select Picklistlossy | 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.
Rizer gotchas
API call budget on Starter tier is migration-critical
Dual-product data model requires separate export scopes
Custom field data types are not validated at export time
Freshsales gotchas
Freddy AI is Pro-tier only despite heavy marketing
Post-migration emails and sequences are disabled
Bot session credits are a one-time 500-session allocation
Phone credits charged per minute with no cap
File storage limits scale with plan tier
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and tier assessment
We audit the Rizer account across both products (Rizer Social and Rize) to establish the full export scope. We count Contacts, Companies, Deals, Custom Fields, Team Members, active Workflows, and any Rize time-tracking records. We assess the current Rizer plan tier. If the account is on Starter with over 300 Contacts or any meaningful engagement history, we recommend upgrading to Growth before migration begins so that the 500-call API limit does not interrupt the automated migration run. The discovery output is a written migration scope and a pre-migration checklist including the tier upgrade decision.
Dual-product export and type inference
We run two scoped export passes in parallel. The Rizer Social pass extracts Contacts, Companies, Deals, and Team Members via the Referrizer API with pagination. The Rize pass exports Clients, Projects, and Tasks via the CSV export documented in the Rize changelog. During the extract, we inspect raw custom field values for type inference: dates recognized by format pattern, multi-select values by delimiter detection, and numeric values by character scan. This step produces a typed extract ready for Freshsales field mapping and eliminates silent type coercion errors in the destination.
Freshsales schema preparation
We pre-create Freshsales custom fields to match the Rizer custom field inventory, using the inferred data types from step two. We configure Freshsales pipelines and stage values to match Rizer deal pipelines, and we set up any multi-select picklist value sets for tags. Territory assignment rules are documented but not activated during migration so that they do not interfere with incoming records. The migration user account is granted the appropriate Freshworks API permissions and CSV import role in Admin Settings.
Owner reconciliation
We extract every distinct owner referenced on Rizer records (Contacts, Companies, Deals) and match by email against the Freshsales User table. Any Rizer owner without a matching Freshsales User goes to a reconciliation queue. The customer's admin provisions any missing Users in Freshsales before record import resumes. This step is a hard gate: Opportunity and Contact records with an unresolved OwnerId will fail import in Freshsales.
Production migration in dependency order
We run the production migration in record dependency order. Accounts are created first (from Rizer Companies and Rize Clients with product_source__c set). Leads and Contacts follow with AccountId lookups resolved and the lifecycle stage split applied. Opportunities are imported with StageName translated and Amount mapped. Tasks and Notes are imported as activities linked to parent records. Custom fields are written in the same pass as their parent records to avoid null-population errors. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins.
Workflow inventory delivery and cutover
We deliver the Workflow and Automation inventory document to the customer's admin team. This document lists every active Rizer Workflow with its trigger conditions, delay rules, branching logic, and CRM actions, plus a recommended Freshsales Automation equivalent. We do not rebuild workflows inside the migration scope. We freeze writes on Rizer during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then hand off Freshsales as the active system of record. We support a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues.
Platform deep dives
Rizer
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Freshsales
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard CRM migration. 2 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 Rizer and Freshsales.
Object compatibility
2 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
Rizer: 500 API calls/month on Starter; 5000 on Growth; Enterprise unlimited — exact per-second throttling not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
Rizer 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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