CRM migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between SuiteDash and Twenty CRM. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Twenty CRM.
SuiteDash
Source
Twenty CRM
Destination
Compatibility
9 of 12
objects map 1:1 between SuiteDash and Twenty CRM.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-6 weeks
Overview
Moving from SuiteDash to Twenty CRM is a migration from an all-in-one SMB platform with feature density toward a modern open-source CRM built on TypeScript and Next.js with full data ownership under the AGPL-3.0 license. SuiteDash stores CRM data across Contacts, Companies, Deals, Projects, Support Tickets, and Appointments with custom fields at six visibility scopes; Twenty uses a simpler People-Company-Opportunity-CustomObject model where visibility is managed through workspace permissions rather than per-field scopes. The central challenge is resolving SuiteDash Company Private custom fields, which are invisible to associated Contacts and have no direct Twenty equivalent, into either public custom fields or custom properties on the Company record. We also handle the Pinnacle-tier API access gate: if the customer is on Start or Thrive, the migration runs via CSV export from SuiteDash and bulk import into Twenty rather than through the API. Automations do not migrate; we deliver an Automation Audit Report documenting every trigger and action for manual rebuild in Twenty.
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 SuiteDash object lands in Twenty CRM, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
SuiteDash
Contact
Twenty CRM
Person (People)
1:1SuiteDash Contacts map directly to Twenty People records. We extract all standard Contact fields (name, email, phone, address, job title) and any Contact-scoped custom fields. Primary Contact and Secondary Client assignments on Projects transfer as related record links. Email opt-in status maps to Twenty's custom field for consent tracking. The SuiteDash Contact ID is stored as a legacy identifier on the Twenty Person record for reconciliation.
SuiteDash
Company (Public)
Twenty CRM
Company
1:1SuiteDash Public Company records map to Twenty Company with full fidelity. Company Public custom fields migrate as Twenty custom fields on the Company object. The Company ID is stored as a legacy identifier for relationship resolution during Contact import. Multi-company associations on Contacts (Circles in SuiteDash) are preserved as tag labels on the Twenty Person record.
SuiteDash
Company (Private)
Twenty CRM
Company
1:1SuiteDash Private Company records present a visibility challenge because Private custom fields are only visible to the Primary Contact and are not exposed via Dynamic Data Placeholders. We identify all Private-scoped Company fields during scoping, separate them from Public fields, and discuss with the customer whether they should map to public Twenty custom fields or be stored as custom note fields with restricted visibility managed through Twenty's workspace permissions. Data that cannot be placed in an equivalent visibility model is flagged for manual review.
SuiteDash
Deal
Twenty CRM
Opportunity
1:1SuiteDash Deals map to Twenty Opportunities with pipeline stages preserved as Opportunity stage values. The HubSpot-style dealstage property migrates to Twenty's stageName. Probability percentages, Won/Lost status, close date, and deal value transfer as typed Opportunity fields. If SuiteDash Deals reference multiple pipelines, each pipeline becomes a Twenty Sales Process or Custom Object with its own stage set, depending on Twenty's current multi-pipeline support.
SuiteDash
Project
Twenty CRM
Custom Object (Projects)
1:1SuiteDash Projects map to a Twenty Custom Object named Projects. Project-level custom fields migrate as Twenty custom fields on this object. Tasks within Projects migrate as Twenty Tasks linked to the parent Projects Custom Object via a lookup relationship. Primary Client and Secondary Client assignments on Projects are resolved by linking to the corresponding Twenty Person records (created from SuiteDash Contacts in step 1). We preserve parent-child task hierarchy through ordered sequence numbers in a custom field.
SuiteDash
Support Ticket
Twenty CRM
Custom Object (Tickets)
1:1SuiteDash Support Tickets migrate to a Twenty Custom Object named Tickets. Ticket status workflows (Open, In Progress, Resolved, Closed) map to picklist values in Twenty. Conversation threads migrate as Note records linked to the Ticket Custom Object, with each message preserved as a separate Note entry with author and timestamp. Custom fields on tickets migrate as Twenty custom fields on the Tickets object.
SuiteDash
Invoice
Twenty CRM
Custom Object (Invoices)
1:1Invoice records migrate to a Twenty Custom Object named Invoices. SuiteDash Invoice Custom Fields (which are a distinct field type not available via GET /contact/meta) are captured during Invoice-specific scoping and mapped to Twenty custom fields on the Invoices object. Historical paid invoices migrate as read-only records. Active or pending invoices requiring workflow actions are flagged for the customer to handle post-migration. Line items migrate as a JSON-encoded custom field or as a related Custom Object depending on complexity.
SuiteDash
Appointment
Twenty CRM
Event
1:1SuiteDash Appointments migrate to Twenty Event records. Scheduling data, associated Contacts, status, and location transfer. Bidirectional calendar sync settings (Google Calendar, Outlook) do not port and are flagged for manual reconfiguration in Twenty. Booking page configurations also do not migrate and require rebuild in Twenty's workspace settings.
SuiteDash
Staff Member
Twenty CRM
Member (User)
1:1SuiteDash Staff records map to Twenty Members. Role assignments migrate to Twenty workspace roles. Owner and assignee references on Deals, Projects, and Tickets resolve by matching Staff email to the corresponding Twenty Member record created during this step. Staff-level custom fields migrate as Twenty custom fields on the Member record.
SuiteDash
Organization
Twenty CRM
Workspace Settings
lossySuiteDash Organization-level custom fields and settings are account-scoped. These migrate as Twenty workspace-level custom fields accessible via Settings. White-label settings, branding configurations, and role definitions require manual reconfiguration in Twenty. We document the full Organization settings set during scoping for the customer to recreate.
SuiteDash
Custom Field (multi-scope)
Twenty CRM
Custom Field
lossySuiteDash Custom Fields exist at six scopes: Contact, Company Public, Company Private, Organization, Staff, Work Request, Project, and Support. We export the full schema via GET /contact/meta and run an Invoice-specific field discovery to capture Invoice Custom Fields separately. Each field is mapped to the corresponding Twenty object (Person, Company, Custom Object, Member) and pre-created in Twenty before data import begins. Fields must exist in Twenty before any CSV import; we create them via Twenty's Settings Data Model interface during the schema setup phase.
SuiteDash
Tag
Twenty CRM
Tag or Multi-Select Picklist
lossySuiteDash tags on Contacts and Companies migrate as Twenty Tags. Tags used for segmentation or Circles associations become comma-separated label lists on the Twenty Person or Company record. The customer chooses at scoping whether to use native Twenty Tags (for CRM-level labeling) or multi-select picklist fields (for structured categorization).
| SuiteDash | Twenty CRM | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | Person (People)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Company (Public) | Company1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Company (Private) | Company1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Deal | Opportunity1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Project | Custom Object (Projects)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Support Ticket | Custom Object (Tickets)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Invoice | Custom Object (Invoices)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Appointment | Event1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Staff Member | Member (User)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Organization | Workspace Settingslossy | Fully supported | |
| Custom Field (multi-scope) | Custom Fieldlossy | Fully supported | |
| Tag | Tag or 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.
SuiteDash gotchas
API access requires Pinnacle tier upgrade
No undo for imports — test before full load
Company Private custom fields invisible to associated contacts
Automations use non-portable internal references
Invoice Custom Fields are separate from CRM Custom Fields
Twenty CRM gotchas
Import order is enforced and critical
Export limited to 20,000 records and visible columns only
Soft-deleted records count toward uniqueness and trigger restores
API rate limits cap at 200 req/min on Organization tier
No native email sequences — follow-up cadences require external tools
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Plan tier confirmation and API access verification
We confirm the customer's current SuiteDash plan tier (Start, Thrive, or Pinnacle) during scoping. If Pinnacle, we provision API credentials and begin schema discovery via GET endpoints. If Start or Thrive, we plan a CSV export path: the customer downloads exports from SuiteDash (Contacts, Companies, Deals, Projects, Support Tickets, Invoices, Staff) and we process them through a transformation pipeline before bulk-importing into Twenty via GraphQL. We also review the SuiteDash custom field schema across all six scopes and run an Invoice-specific field discovery to capture Invoice Custom Fields that are not returned by the standard CRM meta endpoint.
Multi-scope custom field audit and visibility mapping
We produce a Custom Field Audit Report listing every SuiteDash custom field with its scope (Contact, Company Public, Company Private, Organization, Staff, Project, Support, Work Request), field type, and visibility model. For Company Private fields, we present the customer with a decision: map to public Twenty Company custom fields, store as restricted Note records, or exclude from migration. For Invoice Custom Fields, we map to the Invoices Custom Object fields. The customer approves the visibility mapping before any field creation begins in Twenty.
Twenty workspace schema pre-creation
We create all custom objects (Projects, Tickets, Invoices) and custom fields in Twenty before importing any data. Twenty's Settings Data Model is where fields are defined; CSV imports create records but not fields. We create fields in dependency order: Company custom fields first (so Deals can reference them), then Person custom fields, then Custom Object fields. Members are provisioned (or the customer invites them) before Owner/assignee references are resolved. This step aligns with Twenty's own documentation that fields must exist before import.
Secondary Client resolution and Project relationship mapping
We extract the full Project-to-Contact assignment matrix from SuiteDash, identifying Primary Client and Secondary Client roles per Project. Each Contact in the assignment matrix is resolved to its migrated Twenty Person record ID. We then create lookup links between the Projects Custom Object and the Person records during import. Any Secondary Client Contact that was excluded from migration (deactivated, test record) is flagged as an orphaned assignment for the customer to reassign manually after cutover.
Production migration in dependency order
We run migration in record-dependency order: Members first (Owner/assignee references require resolved User IDs), then Companies, then Persons (with CompanyId resolved), then Opportunities (with PersonId and CompanyId resolved), then Projects Custom Object (with Primary and Secondary Client PersonIds resolved), then Tickets Custom Object, then Invoices Custom Object, then Activity history (Appointments as Events). Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. If the customer is on a non-Pinnacle plan, CSV exports replace API calls in each phase.
Cutover, validation, and Automation Audit handoff
We freeze SuiteDash writes during cutover, run a delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then enable Twenty as the system of record. We deliver the Custom Field Audit Report with visibility decisions, the Automation Audit Report listing every SuiteDash Automation with rebuild guidance for Twenty, and the Project-Secondary Client Orphan Report for manual reassignment. We support a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues. Workflows, automations, booking pages, and client portal configurations do not migrate and are documented for the customer's admin to rebuild as a separate post-migration task.
Platform deep dives
SuiteDash
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Twenty CRM
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard CRM migration. 3 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 SuiteDash and Twenty CRM.
Object compatibility
3 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
SuiteDash: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
SuiteDash 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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