CRM migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between TeamWave and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales . We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
TeamWave
Source
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Destination
Compatibility
6 of 10
objects map 1:1 between TeamWave and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
2-4 weeks
Overview
Moving from TeamWave to Microsoft Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales is a migration from a small-business unified CRM into an enterprise sales platform with a full REST and Bulk API surface. TeamWave has no documented public API, so we extract via CSV exports from the web interface and reconstruct relationships by cross-referencing embedded foreign keys. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales runs on Microsoft Dataverse, which requires us to pre-create the destination schema including custom entities, fields, and business rules before any data import. Projects and HR records from TeamWave have no native Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales equivalents; we re-create Projects as custom entities or Case records depending on the customer's process, and we migrate HR data as Contact or custom Employee records. We do not migrate TeamWave's task automations, internal notes on workflows, or attachment binaries; these receive written inventory handoffs for the customer's admin to re-create manually after cutover.
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
TeamWave platform overview
Scorecard, SWOT, gotchas, and pricing for TeamWave.
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 TeamWave 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.
TeamWave
Contact
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Contact
1:1TeamWave Contact records map directly to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Contact. Standard fields (fullname, emailaddress1, telephone1, address) transfer via CSV-to-Dataverse column mapping. Lifecycle stage from TeamWave maps to a custom field tw_original_lifecycle__c on Contact because Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales does not have a native lifecycle stage property. The Company-Contact link from TeamWave's company_id foreign key resolves to Account.customerid during staging.
TeamWave
Company
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Account
1:1TeamWave Company records map to Dynamics 365 Account. The company domain name becomes the Account.website field and is used as the dedupe key during upsert. Account is created before any Contact import so that the customerid reference is satisfied at Contact insert time. If the customer uses multiple Company-Contact assignments in TeamWave, we split these into primary (Account.primarycontactid) and secondary (Contact.accountid) relationships.
TeamWave
Deal
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Opportunity
1:1TeamWave Deals map to Dynamics 365 Opportunity. The deal pipeline name in TeamWave maps to an Opportunity salesprocessid we pre-create as a Dynamics 365 Business Process Flow. Stage names map to stageid, and deal value maps to estimatedvalue. Closed-won and closed-lost reasons from TeamWave custom fields become Dynamics 365 resolution fields or custom fields on Opportunity. Owner assignment from TeamWave deal.owner_id resolves to Dynamics 365 SystemUser.userid during staging.
TeamWave
Deal Stage
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Opportunity Stage
lossyTeamWave pipeline stages map to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Process stages. We pre-create a Business Process Flow in the destination org that mirrors the TeamWave pipeline stage names, probabilities, and order. Stage probability percentages migrate as stagecategorycode values. Each Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Process is scoped to a single Business Unit so that stage values stay scoped per team.
TeamWave
Pipeline
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Business Process Flow
lossyTeamWave's single deal pipeline maps to one Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales Process with a corresponding Business Process Flow. If the customer used TeamWave's multi-pipeline feature, each pipeline becomes a separate Sales Process and Business Process Flow in Dynamics 365, with Record Types assigned per pipeline to scope page layouts and stage values to the relevant line of business.
TeamWave
Task
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Task
1:1TeamWave Tasks linked to Projects or Contacts map to Dynamics 365 Task records. Subject, description, scheduledend (due date), prioritycode, and statuscode transfer directly. Assignee resolution uses the same email-to-SystemUser lookup as Deal owner resolution. Task-to-Project links from TeamWave's project_id foreign key cannot be preserved as a native relationship in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales ; we store the original project_id as a custom field tw_project_id__c on the Task record for reference.
TeamWave
User / Team Member
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
SystemUser
1:1TeamWave User records map to Dynamics 365 SystemUser by email match. We extract all TeamWave users referenced as owners on Deals, Tasks, and Projects and match by email against the destination org's SystemUser table. Any TeamWave user without a matching SystemUser goes to a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before production import resumes. The migration user account must have the Security Role needed to assign records.
TeamWave
Project
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Custom Entity (msdyn_project) or Case
lossyTeamWave Projects have no native Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales equivalent. If the customer uses Dynamics 365 Project Operations, we map Projects to msdyn_project records with client linked to Account. If Project Operations is not in scope, we re-create Projects as a custom tw_project__c entity with custom fields for status, start date, end date, and client (lookup to Account). Project assignments migrate as Task records linked to the project entity. We flag this decision during scoping and confirm with the customer before schema deployment.
TeamWave
HR Records / Employees
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Contact or Custom Employee Entity
lossyTeamWave HR module employee records (name, role, department, basic metadata) do not map to any Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales standard entity. We migrate them as Contact records with a custom field tw_employee_record__c set to true, or as a custom tw_employee__c entity if the customer also licenses Dynamics 365 Human Resources. Employee-to-manager relationships from TeamWave's org structure map to a custom lookup field on the Contact or custom entity.
TeamWave
Calendar Events
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Appointment
1:1TeamWave Calendar Events with linked Deal, Project, or Contact associations migrate to Dynamics 365 Appointment records. Subject, scheduledstart, scheduledend, and location map directly. The linked entity reference is resolved by cross-referencing the TeamWave object type and ID against the staged Account, Contact, and Opportunity IDs, then set as the regardingobjectid on the Appointment. Attendee lists from TeamWave events map to Dynamics 365 AttendeeSet records linked to the Appointment.
| TeamWave | Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | Contact1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Company | Account1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Deal | Opportunity1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Deal Stage | Opportunity Stagelossy | Fully supported | |
| Pipeline | Business Process Flowlossy | Fully supported | |
| Task | Task1:1 | Fully supported | |
| User / Team Member | SystemUser1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Project | Custom Entity (msdyn_project) or Caselossy | Fully supported | |
| HR Records / Employees | Contact or Custom Employee Entitylossy | Mapping required | |
| Calendar Events | Appointment1:1 | 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.
TeamWave gotchas
No publicly documented API endpoint surface
Attachment export requires manual re-upload
Free tier enforces feature caps that affect migration scope
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 TeamWave export planning
We audit the TeamWave account for object types in use (Contacts, Companies, Deals, Projects, Tasks, Users, HR Records, Calendar Events), custom field definitions, and attachment count. We identify which TeamWave plan the customer is on (Free, Pro, or Enterprise) and flag any export caps that would limit data capture. We build a per-object export checklist for the customer's TeamWave admin to run in the web UI, and we plan the batch-merge strategy for any object exceeding the per-export row limit.
Schema design in Microsoft Dataverse
We design the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales destination schema before any data extraction begins. This includes pre-creating any custom tw_project__c entities or msdyn_project mappings for Projects, custom fields for TeamWave lifecycle stages and HR employee records, Business Process Flows for deal pipeline stages, and Security Roles for data access scoping. Schema is deployed to a Dynamics 365 Sandbox environment first for validation. The custom field manifest is handed to the customer's Dynamics 365 admin to create in production if the Sandbox sign-off is approved.
Sandbox migration and reconciliation
We run a full migration into a Dynamics 365 Sandbox using production-like data volumes from the TeamWave CSV exports. The customer's RevOps lead reconciles record counts per object, spot-checks 20-30 random records against TeamWave source data, and reviews the Account-Contact relationship integrity and Deal-Opportunity ownership mapping. Any schema corrections (missing custom fields, incorrect field types, wrong lookup references) happen in Sandbox before production migration. Sign-off is required before we proceed to production.
Owner and User reconciliation
We extract every distinct TeamWave owner referenced on Deal, Task, and Project records and match by email against the Dynamics 365 destination org's SystemUser table. Any TeamWave owner without a matching SystemUser is held in a reconciliation queue. The customer's Dynamics 365 admin provisions missing users or assigns a designated migration user. Owner resolution must be complete before record import because OwnerId (OwningUser) references are required on Opportunity, Task, and custom Project records.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order: SystemUsers (validated), Accounts (from TeamWave Companies), Contacts (with Account.customerid resolved), Opportunities (with OwnerId, AccountId, and salesprocessid resolved), Tasks (with OwnerId and regardingobjectid resolved), Calendar Appointments, Projects (as custom tw_project__c or msdyn_project), and HR Employee records (as Contact with custom flags or a custom entity). Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. We use Dynamics 365 Bulk API and Dataverse batch operations with chunking and retry logic for recordsets exceeding 5,000 rows.
Cutover, delta sync, and automation handoff
We freeze TeamWave writes during the cutover window, run a final delta migration of any records created or modified after the initial export, then hand the Dynamics 365 org to the customer's team as the system of record. We deliver the Project re-creation manifest, the custom field manifest, and the HR record mapping document. We do not rebuild TeamWave tasks, automations, or internal PM workflows as Dynamics 365 workflows; those are documented for the customer's admin to re-create. We support a five-business-day hypercare window for reconciliation issues raised by the customer's team.
Platform deep dives
TeamWave
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
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 TeamWave and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .
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
TeamWave: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
TeamWave 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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