CRM migration

Migrate from Sentian Solutions to monday CRM

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

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Sentian Solutions

Source

monday CRM

Destination

monday CRM logo

Compatibility

100%

12 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Sentian Solutions and monday CRM.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

48–96 hours of clock time

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Sentian Solutions stores CRM data in a traditional relational model — contacts, companies, deals, activities, and custom fields with standard field-type semantics. Monday CRM represents all CRM entities as items inside boards, using column types (text, number, date, person, status, etc.) to replicate field behavior. The migration translates Sentian's object-and-field graph into Monday's board-and-column architecture: each Sentian record type becomes a monday CRM board, each Sentian field becomes a monday CRM column of the equivalent type, and related records (contact-to-company, deal-to-contact) are modeled via monday CRM's person/contact columns and subitems. Sentian workflows, automations, and sequence logic do not transfer — Monday's automation engine operates differently and those rules must be rebuilt from exported definitions. The migration runs via Monday's API (board/item create/update endpoints) and monday's bulk-import CSV option for high-volume item ingestion, sequenced so that parent records (companies/contacts) land before their children (deals/activities). Custom properties including pick-list values, dependency rules, and conditional visibility settings are preserved as JSON metadata for manual reimplementation in Monday's column configuration tools.

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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Sentian Solutions

What's pushing teams away

  • Customers report that the UI feels outdated compared to newer legal CRMs, with workflows that require too many clicks for routine tasks.
  • Integration options are limited — some firms cannot connect Sentian Solutions to the productivity tools their attorneys already use.
  • Support responsiveness is cited as a frustration, with some firms waiting days for responses to critical issues during billing periods.
  • Scaling limitations become apparent for firms that grow beyond the mid-market tier, leading them to evaluate enterprise legal CRMs.
  • Data export processes are described as cumbersome, with no self-service option requiring firm staff to manually pull reports before migration.

Choosing

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monday CRM

What's pulling them in

  • Users praise the board-based visual interface for making pipeline stages immediately legible to non-technical team members without CRM training.
  • The no-code automation builder lets sales ops teams create lead routing, stage updates, and email triggers without developer involvement.
  • Integration ecosystem connects to Slack, Gmail, Outlook, and Zapier with minimal configuration, reducing friction for teams already using these tools.
  • The flexible column system lets teams build custom CRM views — deal value, close date, lead source — without needing a developer or pre-defined schema.
  • Teams already using monday Work Management can layer CRM features onto existing boards rather than starting from scratch.

Object mapping

How Sentian Solutions objects map to monday CRM

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

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

Sentian Solutions

Contact

maps to

monday CRM

Monday CRM — Contacts Board / Person Column Item

1:1
Fully supported

Sentian contact records map to monday CRM items in the Contacts board. Each item's name field holds the full name; primary email, phone, and job title map to monday CRM Text and Email column types. If monday CRM's Contacts board is not enabled, contacts migrate as items on a dedicated People board.

Sentian Solutions

Company / Account

maps to

monday CRM

Monday CRM — Companies Board / Item

1:1
Fully supported

Sentian company records map to monday CRM items in a Companies board. Company name is the item name; domain, industry, employee count, and annual revenue map to monday CRM Text, Number, and dropdown column types. Parent-company hierarchies in Sentian become monday CRM group hierarchies or linked items via the connect board column.

Sentian Solutions

Deal / Opportunity

maps to

monday CRM

Monday CRM — Deals Board / Item

1:1
Fully supported

Sentian deals migrate as monday CRM items in a Deals board. Deal name is the item name; amount, close date, stage, and owner map to Number, Date, Status, and Person columns respectively. Monday's Status column values are configured to match Sentian deal stages before migration runs.

Sentian Solutions

Deal Stage

maps to

monday CRM

Monday CRM — Status Column (per Deals board)

1:1
Fully supported

Each Sentian deal stage name maps to a monday CRM Status column value. Stage ordering and color labels are replicated from Sentian's stage configuration. If Sentian stages vary by deal type, multiple monday CRM boards (or separate Status groups per board) represent each deal category.

Sentian Solutions

Contact-Company Association

maps to

monday CRM

Monday CRM — Person Column (on Deals board) + Companies board link

1:1
Fully supported

Sentian's N:1 contact-to-company relationship migrates by placing the contact item's Person column on the associated deal item. For complex N:N setups, a monday CRM Connect Boards column links the Deal item to multiple Contact items. When a contact is associated with multiple companies, each company appears as a separate linked item or connect-board entry, allowing sales reps to view the full account history across all related organizations from a single contact record in Monday CRM.

Sentian Solutions

Activity — Call / Email / Meeting / Note

maps to

monday CRM

Monday CRM — Updates / Subitems (on Contact or Deal item)

1:1
Fully supported

Sentian activity history (call logs, emails, meetings, notes) migrates as monday CRM updates on the parent Contact or Deal item, preserving the original timestamp and activity owner. High-volume activity logs may be migrated as subitems on the Contact item to keep the main item clean.

Sentian Solutions

Sentian Custom Objects

maps to

monday CRM

Monday CRM — Custom Board

1:1
Fully supported

Sentian Enterprise custom objects map to dedicated monday CRM boards. Each custom object's properties become monday CRM columns; relationship fields between custom objects become connect board columns or linked item references. Monday CRM requires an Enterprise plan for unlimited custom columns.

Sentian Solutions

Sentian Custom Fields (on standard objects)

maps to

monday CRM

Monday CRM — Custom Columns (per board)

1:1
Fully supported

Sentian custom fields on Contact, Company, or Deal objects become monday CRM custom columns on the corresponding board. Field type mapping: Sentian text → monday Text; picklist → monday Dropdown; number → monday Number; date → monday Date; user → monday Person. Column visibility is set per board.

Sentian Solutions

Attachment / File

maps to

monday CRM

Monday CRM — File Column (on item) + monday Files storage

1:1
Fully supported

Sentian file attachments on contacts, companies, or deals are downloaded and re-uploaded to monday CRM's Files storage, then attached via the File column on the relevant item. File size limit in monday CRM is 250MB per file; large files are flagged before the migration window opens.

Sentian Solutions

User / Owner

maps to

monday CRM

Monday CRM — Person Column (user reference)

1:1
Fully supported

Sentian owner IDs are resolved by email match against monday CRM workspace members. Unmatched owners are flagged before migration — teams either invite them to the monday CRM workspace first or assign records to a fallback owner. Owner history (who owned a deal historically) is preserved in a separate text column.

Sentian Solutions

Sentian Sequences / Automated Workflows

maps to

monday CRM

No Equivalent

1:1
Fully supported

Sentian sequences and workflow rules cannot migrate to monday CRM because the two platforms' automation engines share no common definition format. FlitStack exports the Sentian workflow definitions as a JSON specification document so the Monday CRM admin can rebuild equivalent automations using monday's recipe builder.

Sentian Solutions

Sentian Reports / Dashboards

maps to

monday CRM

Monday CRM — Dashboard View / Chart Column

1:1
Fully supported

Sentian reports aggregate data by pipeline, rep, and stage with custom filters. The underlying data migrates fully; the report configurations themselves (filter sets, grouping logic, chart types) are not transferable. monday CRM Dashboard view provides a replacement reporting surface but requires manual configuration by the admin.

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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Sentian Solutions gotchas

High

No self-service data export requires manual pull

High

Trust account balance validation is compliance-critical

Medium

Custom fields vary by practice area and firm

Medium

Time entries must preserve billable vs non-billable status

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monday CRM gotchas

High

Subitems are not included in bulk exports

High

Daily API call limits vary sharply by plan

Medium

Legacy automations (Sentence Builder) are being deprecated

Medium

Excel and account exports only include table views

Low

Enterprise admins can disable non-admin exports

Pair-specific challenges

  • Monday CRM column type limits on lower-tier plans constrain custom field mapping

    Monday CRM Standard plan offers a fixed set of column types — Text, Number, Date, Person, Status, Dropdown, Link, etc. Sentian custom fields with data types that don't map cleanly to Monday's native column types (e.g., Sentian's multi-select tags, formula fields, or currency fields with decimal precision beyond Monday's display) require custom workaround columns or must be stored as plain text. Teams on Basic or Standard plans hit this ceiling quickly when Sentian has more than 20 custom fields on a single object. We flag every non-direct column mapping before migration so monday CRM admins can pre-create Enterprise columns where needed.

  • Monday CRM API rate limits throttle high-volume item creation

    Monday CRM enforces daily API call limits per plan tier: 1,000 calls/day on Standard, 10,000 on Pro (soft cap with overage possible), and 25,000 on Enterprise. A Sentian migration with 50,000 deal items could require 150,000–200,000 API calls (create + update per item) which far exceeds Pro's limit without careful batching. FlitStack AI paces insertions against the applicable limit, falling back to Monday's CSV board-import endpoint (which does not count against API quotas) for high-volume batches where the schema is already validated, preserving API calls for records that require column-level update after creation.

  • Sentian N:N contact-to-company relationships require explicit mapping to Monday's linked-item model

    Sentian permits a single contact to be associated with multiple companies simultaneously. Monday CRM's Person column on a Deal item links to one contact record, and the Companies board uses a Connect Boards column rather than a multi-company contact assignment. Teams that rely on Sentian's multi-company contact model need monday CRM admins to decide whether to use multiple Person columns (one per company role) or a connect-boards link table that surfaces all associated companies per contact. We deliver a relationship-mapping plan before migration that specifies which approach is used for each affected record.

  • Sentian automation and sequence logic cannot translate to Monday recipes

    Sentian's workflow builder supports conditional logic with field-change triggers, time-delay actions, and multi-step sequences. Monday CRM's automation recipes use a trigger-action model that shares no schema with Sentian's rules. The migration data carries forward, but every Sentian automation — lead nurturing sequences, stage-change notifications, task auto-creation rules — must be rebuilt in Monday's automation builder from an exported JSON definition that FlitStack produces during discovery. This is the most common source of post-migration process gaps if not planned before cutover.

  • Monday CRM subitems do not inherit parent item permissions

    In Monday CRM, subitems on a board item inherit the permissions of the parent board, not the parent item. Sentian activity logs migrated as subitems on Deal items will be visible to any user with board-level read access, regardless of whether the original Sentian activity was scoped to a specific team or owner. For organizations with strict data-separation requirements, we recommend migrating high-sensitivity activity logs as separate items on a restricted board rather than as subitems, and we flag this configuration choice during the planning phase.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Sentian Solutions to monday CRM data migration

  1. Discover Sentian schema and map to Monday board architecture

    FlitStack AI connects to the Sentian REST API and extracts the full object schema — all standard objects, custom objects, custom fields, pick-list values, and relationship definitions. We compare this against the target monday CRM workspace and produce a board-design plan: one monday CRM board per Sentian object (or per Sentian deal pipeline), column assignments per Sentian field, and a relationship matrix for cross-board links. The plan is reviewed with your monday CRM admin before any data moves.

  2. Validate owner resolution and configure Monday CRM user access

    Sentian owner IDs are cross-referenced against monday CRM workspace members by email. Owners with no matching monday CRM account are flagged as exceptions — FlitStack creates a placeholder 'Unassigned Owner' person column value and generates an exception report so your admin can either invite the owner to the monday CRM workspace or reassign records before go-live. No record migrates without a resolved owner or a documented exception.

  3. Create Monday CRM boards and columns, then run sample migration

    With the board-design plan approved, FlitStack creates monday CRM boards and columns via the API, matching Sentian pick-list values to monday CRM Status and Dropdown column options. A representative slice of records (typically 200–500 per object type) migrates first. We generate a field-level diff report showing source value, destination column value, and any transformation applied for every field — this is your validation checkpoint before the full run commits.

  4. Execute full migration with delta-pickup window

    The full Sentian dataset moves to monday CRM, sequenced to respect Monday's API rate limits. Monday's CSV import endpoint handles bulk item creation for validated record sets; API calls handle column updates and relationship wiring. A 24–48 hour delta-pickup window runs after the bulk load, capturing any Sentian records created or modified during the cutover window. FlitStack produces an audit log of every record operation and a one-click rollback manifest if reconciliation reveals data integrity issues.

  5. Deliver export package for Monday CRM automation rebuild

    FlitStack exports Sentian workflow definitions, sequence logic, and automation rules as a structured JSON specification document organized by object and trigger type. Your monday CRM admin uses this document as a rebuild reference for monday's automation recipes. The export also includes Sentian report configurations as a field-list and grouping reference so monday CRM Dashboard views can be constructed with the same data dimensions.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Sentian Solutions

Source

Strengths

  • Integrated matter management with built-in trust accounting for legal compliance
  • Client-facing portal reduces administrative overhead for status updates and document sharing
  • Predictable pricing model appealing to law firms managing tight budgets
  • Established in the legal vertical with practice-area specific workflows
  • Time and billing tightly coupled to matters for accurate client invoicing

Weaknesses

  • User interface feels dated compared to newer legal CRM competitors
  • Limited third-party integrations beyond core legal tools
  • Self-service data export not available, complicating migration
  • Support response times reported as slow during critical periods
  • Scaling constraints for rapidly growing law firms
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monday CRM

Destination

Strengths

  • Board-based UI makes pipeline stages and deal progress visually obvious without training.
  • No-code automation builder requires no developer resources to create lead routing and stage-triggered actions.
  • Flexible column system supports custom CRM fields without schema changes or admin involvement.
  • Integrates natively with Slack, Gmail, Outlook, and Zapier with minimal configuration overhead.
  • Layered product means teams already on monday Work Management can add CRM without migrating existing data.

Weaknesses

  • No native Contacts object separate from Items — contacts are managed inside a CRM module's People feature.
  • Pipeline and deal relationships use a flat item model rather than a relational object model, making complex CRM associations awkward.
  • Automations are plan-gated (250 actions/month on Standard, 25,000 on Pro) and the legacy Recipe system is being deprecated.
  • Customization and advanced views (Chart, Formula, Dependency) are locked behind Pro and Enterprise tiers.
  • Per-seat pricing with non-refundable annual billing creates cost lock-in risk during migration.

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 Sentian Solutions and monday 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

    Sentian Solutions: N/A.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

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Most Sentian-to-Monday CRM migrations complete in 48–96 hours of clock time for under 25,000 records, including a test migration run and field-level diff. Complex setups with 200+ custom fields or 50,000+ records extend to 7–14 days. The longest single step is Monday board and column creation when pick-list values require value-by-value mapping. Monday's API rate limits on Standard and Pro plans also extend the migration window for high-volume batches, which is why FlitStack alternates between API calls and CSV bulk import where schema is already validated.

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