CRM migration

Migrate from Swift Digital Suite to Twenty CRM

Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Swift Digital Suite and Twenty CRM. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Twenty CRM.

Swift Digital Suite logo

Swift Digital Suite

Source

Twenty CRM

Destination

Twenty CRM logo

Compatibility

70%

7 of 10

objects map 1:1 between Swift Digital Suite and Twenty CRM.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

3-4 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Swift Digital Suite to Twenty CRM is a marketing-automation-to-CRM migration where the core contact and engagement records transfer but the campaign execution layer does not. Swift Digital Suite has no publicly documented bulk export API, so we extract contact profiles, engagement scores, segment memberships, and activity history through the platform's dashboard reporting interface and paginated record retrieval. We collapse the source's separate email and SMS unsubscribe flags into Twenty's single opt-out field using the more restrictive state, preserving engagement scores as static numeric reference fields rather than expecting them to recalculate identically. Survey responses and event registrations move as structured rows linked to the People record. Automation workflows and survey conditional logic are documented but not migrated as code; we deliver a written inventory for the customer's admin to rebuild in Twenty or a connected automation tool. Twenty requires all custom fields to exist in Settings before import, so we provision the target schema first, then run the migration in dependency order: People first (with segment tags applied), then Companies, Opportunities, and Activity history as Tasks and Notes.

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

Swift Digital Suite logo

Swift Digital Suite

What's pushing teams away

  • Annual pricing starting at A$2,988 is positioned as a premium tier, making it costly for small businesses or nonprofits with limited marketing budgets.
  • Limited template library in the drag-and-drop builder means teams starting from scratch invest significant time building branded assets from scratch.
  • Despite an intuitive interface, the broader feature set introduces a learning curve for users accustomed to single-function email tools.
  • Some users report that the platform requires manual data entry for contacts that cannot be synced automatically from other business systems.

Choosing

Twenty CRM logo

Twenty CRM

What's pulling them in

  • Top open-source CRM on GitHub with 40.6K stars, giving teams full source code access and infrastructure ownership without per-feature licensing surprises.
  • Free self-hosting under AGPL-3.0 means unlimited users and custom objects for the cost of cloud infrastructure alone, typically $20–100/month.
  • Pricing page explicitly mocks competitors for charging add-on fees for API access, webhooks, and workflows — transparency that resonates with RevOps teams burned by Salesforce.
  • Unlimited custom objects and fields with no price impact, letting teams shape the data model to their business rather than forcing business into rigid schemas.
  • Modern TypeScript/React/PostgreSQL stack means developer-led teams can extend, self-host, or integrate without fighting legacy architecture.

Object mapping

How Swift Digital Suite objects map to Twenty CRM

Each row shows how a Swift Digital Suite 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.

Swift Digital Suite

Contact

maps to

Twenty CRM

People

1:1
Fully supported

Swift Digital Suite Contacts map to Twenty CRM People records. We export the full contact profile including email address, first name, last name, phone, custom properties, engagement score, segment membership, and lifecycle stage. The contact's email address becomes the People email field and serves as the dedupe key during import. Engagement score migrates as a numeric custom field (e.g., swift_engagement_score__c) because Twenty has no native scoring algorithm. Segment memberships map as Tags applied to the People record in Twenty. Lifecycle stage maps to a text or select custom field for reference. The contact's SMS consent and email subscription flags collapse into Twenty's single opt-out field using the more restrictive state.

Swift Digital Suite

Company

maps to

Twenty CRM

Company

1:1
Fully supported

Swift Digital Suite does not have a native Company or Account object, but enterprise contacts often store organisation name in a custom property or as a related record. We extract the organisation name from the contact's custom properties, deduplicate unique organisation values, and create Twenty Company records first, then link People records to the resolved Company via the ManyPeople relation. This ensures the People-to-Company relationship is satisfied at insert time rather than patched in a second pass.

Swift Digital Suite

Segment

maps to

Twenty CRM

Tag

lossy
Fully supported

Swift Digital Suite segments are named groups of contacts based on behavioural or demographic criteria. We export each segment as a distinct tag name and apply it to every People record that was a member. In Twenty, tags are a first-class concept on People. If the customer uses segments as dynamic audience lists rather than static tags, we document the segment definition as a written criteria map so the customer's admin can recreate the dynamic logic in Twenty's filter views or a connected automation tool.

Swift Digital Suite

Email Send / Email History

maps to

Twenty CRM

Task (emails type)

1:1
Fully supported

Individual email sends from Swift Digital Suite campaigns are tied to contacts. We export the send timestamp, open timestamp, click events, and bounce or unsubscribe status for each contact-campaign pair. In Twenty, email engagement events become Tasks with a custom email type (e.g., taskType = email_sent, email_opened, email_clicked) and the campaign name stored in the body or a custom field. The ActivityDate preserves the original send or open timestamp for timeline ordering. Bounce and unsubscribe events update the People opt-out field accordingly.

Swift Digital Suite

SMS Record

maps to

Twenty CRM

Note

1:1
Fully supported

SMS sends from Swift Digital Suite are tied to contacts and campaigns. We export the message content, direction (inbound or outbound), timestamp, and SMS consent flag. In Twenty, SMS records become Note records attached to the People record, with a custom field indicating direction and campaign association. The contact's SMS opt-out flag collapses into the single People opt-out field as described above. If the customer requires SMS history to be queryable as structured data rather than Notes, we recommend creating a custom SMS object in Twenty before migration.

Swift Digital Suite

Event Registration

maps to

Twenty CRM

Task

1:1
Fully supported

Swift Digital Suite event registrations include registration date, ticket type, attendance status, and RSVP history. We export the full event roster as a contact-level log of event participation. In Twenty, each registration becomes a Task record linked to the People record, with the event name as the subject, ticket type in a custom field, and attendance status in another. Event-level custom fields (venue, speaker, capacity) are stored as custom fields on the Task.

Swift Digital Suite

Survey Response

maps to

Twenty CRM

Custom Fields or Note

lossy
Fully supported

Survey responses in Swift Digital Suite are tied to contacts as structured answer data. We export all question-answer pairs as flat rows per contact. In Twenty, we map each survey question to a custom field on People (for single-response surveys) or create a Note with the full response block (for multi-question surveys). Survey conditional branching and skip logic are not exposed in the export and cannot be migrated; we document the survey structure as a written description so the customer's admin can evaluate whether rebuild is needed in a dedicated survey tool or as form logic in a connected tool.

Swift Digital Suite

Campaign

maps to

Twenty CRM

Custom Object or Tag

lossy
Fully supported

Swift Digital Suite campaigns are parent containers for email sends, survey triggers, and event invitations. Campaign metadata (name, type, created date, status) is exported as structured records. In Twenty, which has no native campaign object, we map campaigns to a custom Campaign object we pre-create with fields for name, type, start date, and status. Campaign membership (which contacts received which campaign communications) is preserved as Tags on People linked to the campaign record via a custom lookup field.

Swift Digital Suite

Automation Workflow

maps to

Twenty CRM

(documented only)

1:1
Fully supported

Swift Digital Suite automation workflows define trigger conditions, time delays, and action steps. We document the workflow as a structured record showing the trigger, each step, and its conditions, including which contacts are enrolled and which actions fire. Because workflows are code-equivalent and depend on Twenty's own Workflow Automation feature (which requires custom fields to pre-exist), we do not migrate them as executable configuration. We deliver a written workflow inventory document for the customer's admin to review and rebuild in Twenty or a connected automation platform such as Zapier, Make, or n8n.

Swift Digital Suite

Custom Property

maps to

Twenty CRM

Custom Field

1:1
Fully supported

Contacts and campaigns in Swift Digital Suite support custom properties. We extract all active custom property names and values, map them to identically named custom fields in Twenty's Data Model, and verify that the field type is compatible (text maps to text, number maps to number, date maps to date, select maps to select). Fields must be pre-created in Twenty Settings before the People import runs; we coordinate this with the customer during scoping and confirm all fields exist in the target workspace before production migration begins.

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.

Swift Digital Suite logo

Swift Digital Suite gotchas

High

No publicly documented bulk API

Medium

Email and SMS opt-out flags are separate

Medium

Survey conditional logic is not exportable as-is

Low

Engagement scores are platform-specific snapshots

Low

Annual pricing model requires contract alignment

Twenty CRM logo

Twenty CRM gotchas

High

Import order is enforced and critical

High

Export limited to 20,000 records and visible columns only

Medium

Soft-deleted records count toward uniqueness and trigger restores

Medium

API rate limits cap at 200 req/min on Organization tier

Low

No native email sequences — follow-up cadences require external tools

Pair-specific challenges

  • No bulk export API requires sequential dashboard pulls

    Swift Digital Suite does not publish a bulk export API. Migration of large contact databases requires sequential export through the platform's reporting dashboard or paginated record retrieval. We batch export requests across multiple sessions to avoid session timeouts, and for databases exceeding 50,000 contacts we agree on a scope-cut date with the customer to avoid pulling records created during the active migration window. This sequential export overhead is the primary driver of extended timelines for large Swift Digital Suite migrations.

  • Separate email and SMS opt-out flags collapse to one

    Swift Digital Suite tracks unsubscribe status independently for email and SMS channels. Twenty CRM uses a single global opt-out field per contact. We apply the more restrictive opt-out state across both channels: if a contact has opted out of SMS but not email, we flag them as opted-out in Twenty's unsubscribe field to prevent accidental re-engagement on SMS. If the customer needs channel-specific opt-out tracking, we recommend creating two custom fields (email_opt_out__c, sms_opt_out__c) in Twenty before migration and populating them from the source flags independently.

  • Custom fields must exist in Twenty before import

    Twenty CRM's CSV import creates records but not fields. All custom fields referenced in the import file must be pre-created in Settings before any data import runs. We coordinate with the customer during scoping to extract the complete list of Swift Digital Suite custom properties, map them to Twenty field types, and confirm the customer has created them in their Twenty workspace. Skipping this step results in import failures for any record that includes a custom property value.

  • Survey conditional logic does not export from Swift Digital Suite

    Survey question branching and skip logic are defined inside Swift Digital Suite but are not exposed in the export. We extract all questions, answer options, and response data as a flat table per contact. Before import, we confirm with the customer whether the destination survey tool needs equivalent branching rebuilt manually, or whether a flat response table is sufficient for reporting purposes. If the customer uses surveys for decision-tree lead qualification, we flag that the logic must be rebuilt outside of Twenty or in a connected survey tool.

  • Engagement scores are static reference values in Twenty

    Engagement scores in Swift Digital Suite are computed using the platform's proprietary algorithm based on open, click, and conversion events. We export the current score value as a numeric custom field on the People record. Twenty CRM has no native scoring model, so the score will not recalculate automatically. We document the exported score as a historical reference value in a custom field (swift_engagement_score__c) and note that the customer's admin should treat it as a static snapshot rather than a live behavioural metric.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Swift Digital Suite to Twenty CRM data migration

  1. Discovery and Swift Digital Suite export assessment

    We audit the Swift Digital Suite workspace across contact volume, active segments, campaign history, survey definitions, event records, SMS history, custom properties, and automation workflow count. We assess the export feasibility: if the database exceeds 50,000 contacts, we agree on a scope-cut date with the customer to freeze new records and avoid migration-window growth. We produce a written migration scope document listing every record type, estimated row counts, and the export method (dashboard pull vs. paginated retrieval) for each object.

  2. Twenty CRM workspace provisioning and custom field creation

    We work with the customer's admin to provision the Twenty CRM workspace: inviting all team members (required for Owner lookups), creating any custom objects (Campaign, SMS Log), and creating all custom fields referenced in the Swift Digital Suite export. We confirm that every field type is correctly set (text, number, date, select options) and that the Advanced mode is enabled so we can reference API field names during import. This step completes before any export begins because Twenty's import requires the target schema to be fully defined.

  3. Swift Digital Suite export and data validation

    We run the Swift Digital Suite export using the platform's reporting dashboard for bulk contact records and paginated retrieval for activity history. We validate the export output against expected row counts, check for null values in required fields, and confirm that date formats are consistent. For contacts with missing organisation names, we flag them for the customer to review and supply before migration. We produce a data quality report showing duplicate email addresses, missing required fields, and any records that exceed the migration scope-cut date.

  4. Opt-out flag collapsing and segment-to-tag mapping

    We apply the opt-out collapsing logic: for each contact, we compare the email unsubscribe flag and the SMS unsubscribe flag from Swift Digital Suite, set Twenty's single opt-out field to true if either source flag is true, and populate channel-specific custom fields (email_opt_out__c, sms_opt_out__c) if the customer has opted to track them separately. We also transform segment memberships into Twenty Tags, mapping each segment name to a distinct tag label applied to the People record.

  5. Production migration in dependency order

    We run production migration in record-dependency order: Companies first (deduplicated from contact organisation data), then People (with Tags applied and opt-out flags set), then Tasks and Notes for email history, SMS history, and event participation, then Survey responses (as Notes or custom field values). Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report showing records imported, records skipped, and records rejected with error reasons. We resolve rejects in a correction pass before proceeding to the next phase.

  6. Cutover, validation, and workflow inventory handoff

    We freeze Swift Digital Suite writes during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then confirm Twenty CRM as the system of record. We validate a random sample of 25-50 records against the Swift Digital Suite source for field-level accuracy. We deliver the automation workflow inventory document, the survey structure document, and the data quality report to the customer's admin. We support a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues. We do not rebuild Swift Digital Suite workflows in Twenty as part of the migration scope; that is a separate engagement.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

Swift Digital Suite logo

Swift Digital Suite

Source

Strengths

  • Since 2000, an established Australian SaaS with a track record serving government departments and enterprise clients.
  • Drag-and-drop builders for email, event pages, and surveys reduce reliance on design or developer resources.
  • Engagement scoring built into the platform surfaces high-value contacts without additional configuration.
  • SMS, email, survey, and event management in a single platform avoids multi-vendor coordination overhead.
  • Local Australian support team cited consistently across reviews as responsive and accessible.

Weaknesses

  • No publicly documented bulk export API — migration relies on dashboard exports and paginated record retrieval, which can be slow for large contact databases.
  • Annual pricing starting at A$2,988 positions the platform as mid-to-premium, limiting appeal for small businesses.
  • Limited template library means teams invest time building branded assets from scratch rather than customising existing ones.
  • Manual data entry required for contacts that cannot be synced automatically from CRM or website forms.
Twenty CRM logo

Twenty CRM

Destination

Strengths

  • AGPL-3.0 open-source license with full source code on GitHub — no vendor lock-in, no sunset risk.
  • Unlimited users and unlimited custom objects on self-hosted, with no feature gating based on headcount.
  • REST and GraphQL APIs available on all paid tiers, not locked behind an enterprise add-on fee.
  • MCP server and webhooks shipped as standard features, not premium upgrades.
  • Modern PostgreSQL-backed data model that developer teams can query, extend, and self-host.

Weaknesses

  • Recent v1.0 release means limited production hardening compared to CRMs with multi-year operational track records.
  • No native email sequencing or sales engagement tools — follow-up cadences require a separate platform.
  • No native two-way email sync or inbox integration, requiring third-party connectors for full activity logging.
  • Self-hosting 'free' pricing hides real infrastructure and DevOps costs that stack up over time.
  • Workflow automation is functional but lacks the complexity needed for sophisticated multi-step sales motions.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Standard CRM migration. 1 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 Swift Digital Suite and Twenty CRM.

  • Object compatibility

    B

    1 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

    Swift Digital Suite: Not publicly documented in the v3 API reference.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    A

    Swift Digital Suite exposes a bulk API — large-volume migrations stream efficiently.

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Most migrations land between three and four weeks for databases under 10,000 contacts with straightforward profiles, segment tags, and engagement history. Migrations exceeding 10,000 contacts, requiring multi-session dashboard pulls, SMS history extraction, or survey response mapping move to six to eight weeks because of sequential export overhead, opt-out flag collapsing logic, and the coordination required to pre-create custom fields in Twenty before import.

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