CRM migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between SendPulse and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales . We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
SendPulse
Source
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Destination
Compatibility
6 of 9
objects map 1:1 between SendPulse and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
4-6 weeks
Overview
SendPulse's built-in CRM is lightweight by design — it handles contacts, companies, and deals but lacks the pipeline depth, custom objects, and enterprise reporting that teams outgrow. Microsoft Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales runs on the Dataverse data model and natively integrates with Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot, giving sales teams a unified environment for pipeline management, forecasting, and buyer engagement tracking. We migrate CRM records (Contacts, Companies, Deals, Tasks, Products) via the SendPulse REST API and the Dynamics 365 Dataverse REST/Bulk APIs, preserving linked entity references and historical timestamps. Automation 360 flows, chatbot configurations, and landing pages are not API-exportable and are documented for manual rebuild. Unique subscriber billing status from SendPulse is preserved as a custom field on migrated Leads or Contacts for compliance and re-segmentation.
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.
Source platform
SendPulse platform overview
Scorecard, SWOT, gotchas, and pricing for SendPulse.
Destination platform
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales platform overview
Scorecard, SWOT, gotchas, and pricing for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
Data migration guide
The complete Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales migration guide
Data model, import mechanisms, field mapping strategy, pitfalls, and cutover — by the engineers running it.
Destination checklist
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales migration checklist
Pre- and post-cutover tasks for moving onto Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
Why teams make this switch
Leaving
What's pushing teams away
Choosing
What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a SendPulse object lands in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales , including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
SendPulse
Contact
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Contact
1:1SendPulse CRM Contacts map directly to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Contact. Email address is the primary deduplication key. First name, last name, phone, and custom properties map to typed Dynamics fields. Any subscription status or unique-subscriber billing flag from SendPulse is preserved in a custom field sp_subscription_status__c for re-segmentation if the customer later implements marketing automation. Mobile and social fields map to Dynamics telephone and social-profile fields where available.
SendPulse
Company
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Account
1:1SendPulse Companies map to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Account. Company name is the primary key, and the company domain maps to Account Website. The company-contact linkage is preserved via the Contact's parentcustomerid field pointing to the Account. We create the Account record before importing Contacts so that the parent Account lookup is satisfied at the moment of Contact insert.
SendPulse
Deal
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Opportunity
1:1SendPulse Deals map to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Opportunity. The SendPulse pipeline becomes a Dynamics Record Type on Opportunity, and SendPulse deal stages map to Opportunity Stage values under a corresponding Sales Process. Deal value, responsible owner, and stage timestamps transfer directly. Closed-Lost and Closed-Won dates from SendPulse map to Dynamics CloseDate and a custom loss-reason field.
SendPulse
Task
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Task
1:1SendPulse CRM Tasks map to Dynamics 365 Task records linked via the Regarding field to the parent Contact, Account, or Opportunity. Task subject, due date, assignee, status, and priority transfer directly. We resolve the SendPulse responsible user to a Dynamics User record by email match during import.
SendPulse
Product
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Product
1:1SendPulse CRM Products map to Dynamics 365 Product records with name, price, SKU, and category. We access SendPulse's hidden integration fields (POS IDs, payment gateway metadata stored in String or Number fields up to 255 characters) via the targeted API call with the integration_fields parameter and write them as custom properties on the Dynamics Product record. This step must be explicitly requested during scoping.
SendPulse
Subscribers
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Lead or Contact
1:manySendPulse Subscribers from the email marketing module are not identical to CRM Contacts — a subscriber may have provided an email without full contact details. We deduplicate by email address, create CRM Contacts for subscribers with full name data, and create Leads for partial records (email-only). Subscription status (active, inactive, unsubscribed) is preserved in a custom field sp_email_status__c on the target record.
SendPulse
Automation Flows
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Power Automate (manual rebuild)
lossySendPulse Automation 360 flows define multi-step triggered sequences across email and SMS channels with conditions, actions, and delay steps. There is no API endpoint or bulk export for flow definitions. We document the flow structure from screenshots and step-by-step screenshots, map each trigger and action to a Power Automate equivalent, and deliver the inventory to the customer's admin for manual rebuild. Complex flows with multiple branching conditions may require significant reconfiguration in the destination.
SendPulse
Chatbots
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Not migratable (manual rebuild)
lossySendPulse Chatbots for Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, and Viber have flow logic, trigger conditions, and message content that are not API-exportable. We document the chatbot configuration as-is from the SendPulse UI and deliver a written reconstruction guide. The customer rebuilds chatbot flows in Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Virtual Agents, or a third-party conversational AI platform of their choice. This is outside data migration scope.
SendPulse
Campaign Statistics
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Note (on Contact/Account)
1:1SendPulse email campaign results (open rates, click rates, bounce data, unsubscribes) are exported as reporting records and attached as Notes to the relevant Contact or Account in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales . Email delivery statistics should be treated as approximate, not definitive, because SendPulse applies content moderation that makes historical delivery outcomes uncertain. We flag this in the migration report.
| SendPulse | Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | Contact1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Company | Account1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Deal | Opportunity1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Task | Task1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Product | Product1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Subscribers | Lead or Contact1:many | Mapping required | |
| Automation Flows | Power Automate (manual rebuild)lossy | Mapping required | |
| Chatbots | Not migratable (manual rebuild)lossy | Mapping required | |
| Campaign Statistics | Note (on Contact/Account)1:1 | Mapping required |
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.
SendPulse gotchas
Automation 360 flows have no API export endpoint
Email send restrictions and moderation delays are common
Unique subscriber billing count differs from raw list size
Hidden product integration fields are not visible in standard export
Overdue payments deactivate the entire plan, not just one tool
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales gotchas
Professional tier 15-table custom table limit blocks migrations
October 2024 pricing increase applies at renewal for all customers
Custom fields must be created in the UI before API writes
Power Platform request limits apply to bulk migrations
Activity records orphaned to inactive owners fail silently
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and scoping
We audit the source SendPulse account across the CRM module (Contacts, Companies, Deals, Tasks, Products), the email marketing module (Mailing Lists, Subscribers, Sender Addresses, Campaign Statistics), and the automation module (Automation 360 flows, Chatbots). We extract record counts, custom field definitions, pipeline and stage configurations, and active automation counts. We pair this with a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales edition review (Professional at $65/user covers most migrations; Sales Enterprise at $105/user is required for advanced forecasting and revenue intelligence). The discovery output is a written migration scope with record counts, object mapping, and a pricing proposal.
Data extraction and profiling from SendPulse
We extract CRM data via the SendPulse REST API using the v3/contacts, v3/companies, v3/deals, and v3/tasks endpoints. Email marketing subscribers are extracted via the mailing service API. We profile the extracted data for duplicates (email address deduplication), incomplete records (email-only subscribers vs full CRM contacts), and missing required fields for Dynamics 365. We flag any records with data quality issues and deliver a cleansing report to the customer before import begins.
Destination schema design in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
We design the destination schema in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales . This includes creating any custom fields needed to receive SendPulse custom properties (mapped by data type: string to Text, number to Number, date to DateTime), configuring Opportunity Record Types and Sales Processes to match SendPulse pipeline and stage structures, and setting up the Dynamics User table for owner reconciliation. Schema is validated in a Dynamics Sandbox first.
Owner reconciliation and User provisioning
We extract every distinct SendPulse owner (user assigned to a Contact, Company, Deal, or Task) and match by email address against the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales User table. Any SendPulse owner without a matching Dynamics User goes to a reconciliation queue. The customer's Dynamics admin provisions any missing Users before record import resumes. Owner references on imported records are resolved at this stage.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order: Accounts (from SendPulse Companies), Contacts (with parent Account resolved), Leads (for partial subscriber records), Opportunities (with Account, Owner, and Record Type resolved), Tasks, Products (with hidden integration fields if requested), and campaign statistics as Notes. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report. Automation 360 flows and chatbot configurations are not migrated; the written inventory is delivered as a separate document.
Cutover, validation, and automation rebuild handoff
We freeze SendPulse writes during the cutover window, run a final delta migration of records modified during migration, then enable Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales as the system of record. We validate record counts, spot-check 25-50 records for field-level accuracy, and deliver the Automation Flow and Chatbot rebuild inventory to the customer's admin team. We support a one-week post-cutover window for reconciliation issues. We do not rebuild Automation 360 flows in Power Automate or chatbot flows in Copilot Studio as part of the migration scope.
Platform deep dives
SendPulse
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard CRM migration. All 8 core objects map 1:1 between SendPulse and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
Overall complexity
Standard migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across SendPulse and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
Object compatibility
All 8 core objects map 1:1 between SendPulse and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
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
SendPulse: Not publicly documented on the developer site.
Data volume sensitivity
SendPulse 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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