CRM migration

Migrate from TeamWave to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

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 .

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TeamWave

Source

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Destination

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales  logo

Compatibility

60%

6 of 10

objects map 1:1 between TeamWave and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

2-4 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

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.

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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TeamWave

What's pushing teams away

  • Limited advanced customization on workflows, dashboards, and reports forces growing teams to switch to HubSpot, Pipedrive, or Zoho once their process complexity increases.
  • Reporting lacks deep analytical capabilities; teams that need cohort analysis, attribution, or BI-grade dashboards have to export to spreadsheets or move to a dedicated CRM.
  • No publicly documented API or developer portal blocks any meaningful integration with marketing automation, finance systems, or custom internal tools.
  • Thin third-party review corpus (24 reviews on G2, a handful on Capterra) and the vendor's unfunded status since 2015 raise long-term viability concerns for teams making multi-year commitments.
  • Attachments cannot be exported in bulk and the HR module is light on payroll, time-off accrual, and compliance features compared to BambooHR or Gusto, so teams outgrow it quickly on the people-operations side.

Choosing

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

What's pulling them in

  • Deep Microsoft 365, Teams, and Outlook integration makes Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales a natural fit for Microsoft-first organizations already invested in that ecosystem
  • Sales Enterprise and Premium tiers offer unlimited custom tables and advanced AI-driven forecasting and predictive analytics not available in lower tiers
  • Professional tier pricing at $65 per user per month offers a lower entry cost than Salesforce for SMB teams with straightforward CRM needs
  • Flexible customization options allow businesses to build bespoke apps, tailor forms and views, and integrate with other Dynamics 365 modules
  • Microsoft Copilot AI tools are embedded directly into the sales workflow on Enterprise and Premium, automating routine tasks and providing deal intelligence

Object mapping

How TeamWave objects map to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

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

maps to

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Contact

1:1
Fully supported

TeamWave 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

maps to

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Account

1:1
Fully supported

TeamWave 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

maps to

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Opportunity

1:1
Fully supported

TeamWave 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

maps to

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Opportunity Stage

lossy
Fully supported

TeamWave 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

maps to

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Business Process Flow

lossy
Fully supported

TeamWave'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

maps to

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Task

1:1
Fully supported

TeamWave 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

maps to

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

SystemUser

1:1
Fully supported

TeamWave 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

maps to

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Custom Entity (msdyn_project) or Case

lossy
Fully supported

TeamWave 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

maps to

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Contact or Custom Employee Entity

lossy
Mapping required

TeamWave 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

maps to

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Appointment

1:1
Mapping required

TeamWave 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.

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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TeamWave gotchas

High

No publicly documented API endpoint surface

Medium

Attachment export requires manual re-upload

Medium

Free tier enforces feature caps that affect migration scope

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales gotchas

High

Professional tier 15-table custom table limit blocks migrations

High

October 2024 pricing increase applies at renewal for all customers

Medium

Custom fields must be created in the UI before API writes

Medium

Power Platform request limits apply to bulk migrations

Medium

Activity records orphaned to inactive owners fail silently

Pair-specific challenges

  • TeamWave has no public API; all extraction is CSV-based

    TeamWave does not publish a developer API reference. We export all migrateable objects via repeated CSV downloads from the web UI, merging batched results when datasets exceed the per-export limit. This extraction method is slower than API-based extraction and may require manual intervention for customers with datasets exceeding 10,000 rows. We script the repeat-export process and validate record counts against in-app counts before beginning staging. Large deal or task histories (over 100,000 rows) extend the extraction phase significantly.

  • Project records require re-creation as custom Dataverse entities

    TeamWave Projects have no native equivalent in Microsoft Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales . We cannot map Projects directly to any standard Dynamics 365 entity. During scoping, we determine whether the customer has Dynamics 365 Project Operations (which includes msdyn_project), or whether we should build a custom tw_project__c entity. Project-Task assignments flatten into Task records with a tw_project_id__c custom field. If the customer needs Project Operations, licensing and implementation of that module falls outside standard migration scope.

  • Attachment files cannot be migrated and require manual re-upload

    TeamWave stores file attachments linked to Contacts, Deals, and Projects but provides no bulk download mechanism. We capture attachment metadata (filename, size, linked object type and ID) in a re-upload manifest and hand it off to the customer post-migration. The customer uploads files to SharePoint or Dynamics 365's document management and re-links them to the relevant records. This manual step is in scope for the customer, not for FlitStack AI.

  • Custom fields require manual mapping and pre-creation in Dataverse

    TeamWave allows custom fields on Contacts, Deals, Projects, and Tasks. We export custom field definitions alongside data during the CSV extraction phase. However, each custom field must be manually pre-created in Dynamics 365 Dataverse with the matching field type before migration begins, because Dataverse enforces schema validation on import. We provide a custom field manifest listing every TeamWave custom field, its source data type, and the recommended Dynamics 365 field type. The customer's Dynamics 365 admin creates these fields before production migration.

  • Free-tier TeamWave accounts may have export-limited datasets

    The TeamWave Basic (Free) plan limits contacts, projects, and storage. Customers migrating from the free tier may have incomplete exports because TeamWave enforces feature caps on data export. We flag this during scoping by running a record count against the customer's TeamWave account. If caps are hit, we advise upgrading to Pro temporarily before export, then downgrading after migration. This is a customer action, not a FlitStack AI scope item.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful TeamWave to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales data migration

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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

Context on both ends of the pair

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TeamWave

Source

Strengths

  • Free tier available for basic CRM and task management with no per-user cost
  • Native mobile apps for iOS and Android alongside a web interface
  • Unified platform combining CRM, project management, and HR in one subscription
  • Visual deal pipeline with stage tracking and deal value reporting
  • Self-described as easy to implement without prior CRM experience

Weaknesses

  • Small G2 review sample (24 reviews) makes aggregate ratings hard to trust
  • Unfunded company since 2015 raises questions about long-term support and development
  • Public API documentation is not publicly accessible or indexed
  • Limited enterprise-grade features compared to HubSpot, Bitrix24, or monday CRM
  • India-based team may present timezone and localization gaps for non-Asia customers
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales

Destination

Strengths

  • Native integration with Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint for unified productivity workflow
  • Unlimited custom tables and complex workflows on Enterprise tier enable deep customization for complex sales processes
  • AI-driven predictive analytics and deal intelligence on Enterprise and Premium tiers help sales teams prioritize pipeline
  • Dataverse unified data layer provides a consistent API and data model across all Dynamics 365 and Power Platform apps
  • Strong security model with Field-Level Security and Record Ownership rules for governance-conscious enterprises

Weaknesses

  • Sales Professional tier caps custom tables at 15, creating a migration ceiling for highly customized SMB environments
  • October 2024 pricing increases of $15 per user across all tiers apply to existing customers upon renewal
  • Implementation typically requires costly certified partners, adding 30–50% to total project cost
  • Updates and platform releases can disrupt customizations and plugins, requiring regression testing after each wave
  • Non-Microsoft integrations require additional configuration or middleware, limiting flexibility for heterogeneous tech stacks

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 TeamWave and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales .

  • 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

    TeamWave: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

Estimator

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Most migrations land between two and four weeks for accounts under 15,000 Contacts, 3,000 Deals, and no project re-creation. Migrations with project records requiring custom Dataverse entity build-out, large task histories (over 200,000 records), or multiple TeamWave CSV batch merges move to six to ten weeks because of the custom schema design phase, sandbox validation cycle, and Dataverse batch import throughput. The extraction phase (CSV downloads from TeamWave) adds one to three days depending on dataset size and export batch limits.

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