CRM migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Smart CRM Online and Salesforce Sales Cloud. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Salesforce Sales Cloud.
Smart CRM Online
Source
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Destination
Compatibility
9 of 12
objects map 1:1 between Smart CRM Online and Salesforce Sales Cloud.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
4-8 weeks
Overview
This is a flat-file-to-relational migration constrained by Smart CRM Online's lack of a documented API. The source platform exports Deals with Company ID references rather than structured parent-child relationships, and Contacts carry Company name strings instead of foreign keys. We resolve these by matching Company identifiers against destination Account records, re-establishing Contact-Account linkages explicitly during import, and loading Activities via Bulk API 2.0 with WhoId and WhatId resolution to maintain the engagement timeline. Smart CRM Online does not publish its custom field schema, so we identify custom properties during discovery against the standard object template and present explicit mapping decisions to the customer before the import run. Workflows, automations, and sequences do not migrate as code; we deliver a written inventory of these for the customer's admin to rebuild in Salesforce Flow post-cutover. Standard object migrations (Contacts, Companies, Deals, Activities) land in four to eight weeks for most small-to-mid-market accounts.
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.
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Object mapping
Each row shows how a Smart CRM Online object lands in Salesforce Sales Cloud, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Smart CRM Online
Company
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Account
1:1Smart CRM Online Company records map directly to Salesforce Account. The export produces a Company ID (used as dedupe key during import) and Company name. We import Accounts first so that the AccountId foreign key is available when Contacts are loaded. Any Company records that reference each other via a parent-company field in the export are flagged for Salesforce's Account Hierarchy configuration post-migration.
Smart CRM Online
Contact
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Contact
1:1Smart CRM Online Contacts map to Salesforce Contact. The export carries Contact name, email, phone, and a Company name or ID string rather than a foreign key. We resolve the Company name string against the destination AccountId during transformation using the account dedupe key. If the export produces a Company ID reference that does not match a destination Account, we hold the Contact in a reconciliation queue for manual Account assignment before import resumes.
Smart CRM Online
Deal
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Opportunity
1:1Smart CRM Online Deals map to Salesforce Opportunity. The export carries deal name, stage, value, close date, owner email, and a Company ID or Company name string. We resolve the Company reference to AccountId and the owner email to Salesforce OwnerId during the transform phase. Stage names from the export are mapped to Salesforce StageName values that we configure in the destination Sales Process before migration.
Smart CRM Online
Pipeline Stage
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Opportunity Stage
lossySmart CRM Online pipeline stages are configurable and export with the Deal record. We capture the full stage list and sequence from the discovery export, then configure Salesforce Opportunity Stages (StageName, Probability, and Closed flags) to match. If the customer has custom stage naming, we rename Salesforce stages to match during Salesforce Setup configuration before import.
Smart CRM Online
Custom Properties
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Custom Fields
lossySmart CRM Online supports custom fields per object but publishes no field schema. During discovery we request a full CSV export and cross-reference field names against the standard Smart CRM Online object template to identify custom properties. Each identified custom field is presented to the customer for explicit mapping to a Salesforce custom field (__c API name) or a note that the field will not migrate. Any unmapped custom fields are excluded from import and documented in the migration handoff.
Smart CRM Online
Activity: Call, Email, Meeting
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Task, Event, EmailMessage
1:1Smart CRM Online activity logs (calls, emails, meetings) export with a parent reference to Contact name or Deal name. We resolve the parent reference to WhoId (Contact ID) and WhatId (Opportunity ID) during transformation. Calls land as Task with TaskSubtype=Call; meetings land as Event; emails land as EmailMessage linked to a Task. We load via Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 because volume typically exceeds CSV loader capacity. Activity timestamps are preserved as ActivityDate for timeline fidelity.
Smart CRM Online
Note
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Note
1:1Smart CRM Online Notes export as a supplemental payload attached to Contact records, carrying the note body, author, and creation date. We extract Note records and import them as Salesforce Note objects, linking each via ContentDocumentLink to the parent Contact using the Contact's destination Salesforce ID resolved by email match.
Smart CRM Online
Tag
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Multi-Select Picklist or Topic
lossySmart CRM Online exports Tags as a comma-separated or multi-value field on Contact or Deal records. We present two options to the customer during scoping: map tags to a Salesforce multi-select picklist field (preserving all tag values as picklist entries) or map them to Salesforce Topics with TopicAssignment records for content classification use cases.
Smart CRM Online
Owner
Salesforce Sales Cloud
User
1:1Smart CRM Online exports owner information as an email address or user name on Contact, Company, and Deal records. We match owner email against the destination Salesforce org's User table. Any Owner without a matching Salesforce User is held in a reconciliation queue; the customer's admin provisions the missing User before record import resumes. Inactive Salesforce Users cannot own records in standard orgs, so we flag this constraint during scoping.
Smart CRM Online
Engagement: Task
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Task
1:1Smart CRM Online task engagements (completed tasks, to-dos) export with status, priority, due date, and owner email. We resolve the owner email to Salesforce OwnerId, set Task.Status and Task.Priority from the source values, and preserve the original due date as Task.ActivityDate. Tasks are loaded in the same Bulk API pass as other activity records.
Smart CRM Online
Deal Value
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Opportunity Amount
1:1Smart CRM Online deal monetary values export as a numeric field. We map this directly to Opportunity.Amount in Salesforce. If the source export produces values in a currency format that requires conversion, we apply the customer's specified exchange rate during transformation. CurrencyISOCode defaults to USD unless the customer specifies otherwise.
Smart CRM Online
Close Date
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Opportunity CloseDate
1:1Smart CRM Online close date exports as a date field on the Deal record. We map this directly to Opportunity.CloseDate. Dates are validated for Salesforce date range constraints (records cannot have CloseDate before 1700 or after 4000) and reformatted to YYYY-MM-DD during the transform phase.
| Smart CRM Online | Salesforce Sales Cloud | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company | Account1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Contact | Contact1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Deal | Opportunity1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Pipeline Stage | Opportunity Stagelossy | Fully supported | |
| Custom Properties | Custom Fieldslossy | Mapping required | |
| Activity: Call, Email, Meeting | Task, Event, EmailMessage1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Note | Note1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Tag | Multi-Select Picklist or Topiclossy | Fully supported | |
| Owner | User1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Engagement: Task | Task1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Deal Value | Opportunity Amount1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Close Date | Opportunity CloseDate1:1 | 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.
Smart CRM Online gotchas
No documented API endpoint for programmatic migration
Relational flattening in CSV export breaks object associations
Custom field schema not published, requiring discovery-phase manual audit
No published pricing page creates billing-model ambiguity
Salesforce Sales Cloud gotchas
Workflow Rules and Process Builder are retired
Bulk API batch quota exhaustion during large imports
Storage overage billing is non-obvious
Account-Contact many-to-many relationship mapping
Territory and team member import ordering dependencies
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and export audit
We request a full CSV export from Smart CRM Online covering all objects (Companies, Contacts, Deals, Pipeline Stages, Activities, Notes, Tags, and any identified custom fields). We run a field inventory against the standard object schema to identify custom properties, verify stage names and counts, and flag any records with missing parent references. The discovery output is a written migration scope, a custom field mapping worksheet for customer review, and a confirmation that the export captures all required objects before we proceed to transformation design.
Schema design and Salesforce configuration
We design the destination schema in Salesforce. This includes creating any required custom fields (with __c API names matched to Smart CRM Online custom field names), configuring Opportunity Stages to match the exported pipeline stage names and probabilities, and provisioning a Salesforce Sandbox (Full Copy or Partial Copy) for validation. Owner reconciliation begins here: we extract distinct owner email addresses from the export and match them against the destination org's User table to identify any Users that must be provisioned before record import.
Transformation build and relational reconstruction
We build the transformation pipeline to handle Smart CRM Online's flat-file export format. This includes parsing Company ID and Company name references from Deal and Contact exports, matching them against the destination Account records, and writing AccountId foreign keys before inserting Contacts and Deals. We resolve owner email addresses to Salesforce OwnerId, parse multi-value tag fields into comma-delimited strings for Salesforce multi-select picklists, and format dates to YYYY-MM-DD. We handle any data cleansing (duplicate detection, null field handling, format normalization) during this phase.
Sandbox migration and reconciliation
We run a full migration into the Salesforce Sandbox using production-like data volume. The customer's Salesforce admin or RevOps lead reconciles record counts (Accounts in, Contacts in, Opportunities in, Activities in), spot-checks 25-50 random records against the Smart CRM Online source, and reviews the custom field mapping results. Any mapping corrections, missing field additions, or owner reconciliation gaps are resolved here before production migration begins.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order using Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 for all activity records: Accounts (from Smart CRM Online Companies), Contacts (with AccountId resolved from Company name), Opportunities (with AccountId and OwnerId resolved), Activity history (Tasks, Events, EmailMessages via Bulk API with WhoId and WhatId resolution), Notes (linked via ContentDocumentLink), and Tags (as multi-select picklist or Topics). Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. Validation rules are temporarily disabled or bypassed during load and re-enabled after.
Cutover, validation, and handoff
We freeze writes to Smart CRM Online during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then enable Salesforce as the system of record. We perform a final reconciliation comparing record counts in Salesforce against the source export totals and verify a sample of parent-child relationships (Contacts on Accounts, Opportunities on Accounts) are intact. We deliver the migration handoff document covering custom field mapping decisions, any excluded fields, automation inventory notes, and a go-live checklist. We do not rebuild automations; the customer uses the handoff document to rebuild any automation in Salesforce Flow.
Platform deep dives
Smart CRM Online
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard CRM migration. 1 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 Smart CRM Online and Salesforce Sales Cloud.
Object compatibility
1 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
Smart CRM Online: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
Smart CRM Online 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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