CRM migration

Migrate from TeamWave to monday CRM

Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between TeamWave and monday CRM. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in monday CRM.

TeamWave logo

TeamWave

Source

monday CRM

Destination

monday CRM logo

Compatibility

70%

7 of 10

objects map 1:1 between TeamWave and monday CRM.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

3-5 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from TeamWave to Monday.com CRM is an extraction-and-reconstruction migration. TeamWave has no publicly documented API, so all data comes from CSV exports that flatten TeamWave's relational model. The primary challenge is that Monday.com CRM uses a board-and-item architecture rather than a relational object database, meaning Company-to-Contact links, Deal-to-Contact associations, and Project-to-Task hierarchies do not map automatically. We extract TeamWave exports across all modules, normalize foreign keys in staging, and then create Monday.com board structures that preserve those relationships using item links, group naming conventions, and column cross-references. TeamWave's HR module, calendar events, and custom fields carry over as board items and columns where Monday.com supports them; attachments export as metadata only, requiring a manual re-upload manifest post-migration. Automations and workflows from TeamWave do not migrate; we deliver a written reconstruction guide instead.

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

TeamWave logo

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

monday CRM logo

monday CRM

What's pulling them in

  • Users praise the board-based visual interface for making pipeline stages immediately legible to non-technical team members without CRM training.
  • The no-code automation builder lets sales ops teams create lead routing, stage updates, and email triggers without developer involvement.
  • Integration ecosystem connects to Slack, Gmail, Outlook, and Zapier with minimal configuration, reducing friction for teams already using these tools.
  • The flexible column system lets teams build custom CRM views — deal value, close date, lead source — without needing a developer or pre-defined schema.
  • Teams already using monday Work Management can layer CRM features onto existing boards rather than starting from scratch.

Object mapping

How TeamWave objects map to monday CRM

Each row shows how a TeamWave object lands in monday CRM, 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

monday CRM

People Board Item

1:1
Fully supported

TeamWave Contacts (name, email, phone, lifecycle stage, address) map to Monday.com People board items. Lifecycle stage from TeamWave becomes a Status column or Dropdown column on the People board item. Email is preserved as a Text column for integration use. We extract contacts via CSV from the TeamWave Contacts section, normalize blank fields to empty strings, and import via Monday.com CSV import or API. Company linkage is preserved by creating a link to the matching Companies board item after the Companies import completes.

TeamWave

Company

maps to

monday CRM

Organizations Board Item

1:1
Fully supported

TeamWave Company records map to Monday.com Organizations board items. The company name becomes the item title; domain, industry, phone, and address migrate as text or location columns. The company_id foreign key is preserved in a text column so Contact items can reference it. Companies must import before Contacts so that the Monday.com organization link is available at Contact import time.

TeamWave

Deal

maps to

monday CRM

Deals Board Item (with Pipeline view)

1:1
Fully supported

TeamWave Deals map to Monday.com CRM Deals board items with deal value, owner, expected close date, and stage. TeamWave pipeline stages become Monday.com Group names or a CRM Pipeline view with stage columns. Deal value migrates as a Numbers column; owner email is mapped to a People column after User reconciliation. Closed-Lost and Closed-Won statuses from TeamWave carry over as status values on the Deals item.

TeamWave

Project

maps to

monday CRM

CRM Board Item or Group

lossy
Fully supported

TeamWave Projects (name, description, status, client association, start/end dates) map to Monday.com board items in a dedicated CRM Projects board. Status and dates migrate as Status and Date columns. Client association references the Organizations board item for the linked customer. Projects with sub-items in TeamWave do not map as true sub-items in Monday.com; we flatten them into separate items and preserve the project_id link in a text column so the relationship is queryable.

TeamWave

Task

maps to

monday CRM

Board Items (flat list)

1:many
Fully supported

TeamWave Tasks linked to Projects or Contacts are extracted as individual board items in a Tasks board, with a Project Reference column pointing to the parent Project item and a Contact Reference column for assignee. Assignee, due date, status, and priority map to People, Date, Status, and Priority columns respectively. The task-to-project hierarchy is flattened; we preserve the project_id as a text column rather than a true parent-child relationship since Monday.com does not support nested task structures at the CRM object level.

TeamWave

User / Team Member

maps to

monday CRM

Team Member

1:1
Fully supported

TeamWave User records (name, email, role, department) map to Monday.com Team Members by email match. We extract all distinct owners referenced on Contact, Company, Deal, and Task records and reconcile them against the Monday.com destination workspace. Any owner without a matching Monday.com team member goes to a reconciliation queue; the customer provisions the account before record imports resume. Role and department are preserved as Dropdown columns on the matched member's profile or on the relevant board items.

TeamWave

Calendar Event

maps to

monday CRM

Timeline Board Item

1:1
Fully supported

TeamWave Calendar records (event title, date/time, linked entity type and ID, attendees) migrate as Monday.com items in a Timeline board with a Date or Timeline column spanning the event start and end. The linked entity type (Deal, Project, or Contact) is stored in a Dropdown column; the original TeamWave entity ID is preserved in a text column for cross-reference. Attendees with known email addresses are mapped to Monday.com People column entries where the workspace members exist.

TeamWave

HR Record / Employee

maps to

monday CRM

People Board Item (or flagged)

1:1
Fully supported

TeamWave HR module records (employee profiles with name, role, department) migrate as Monday.com People board items only if the destination workspace uses the People board. If the customer is migrating solely to Monday.com CRM without the HR module, HR records are flagged for manual review and migration as plain items in a separate HR board, with role and department mapped to Dropdown columns. This is a configuration decision made during scoping based on whether the customer intends to use Monday.com for HR purposes.

TeamWave

Custom Field

maps to

monday CRM

Board Column

lossy
Fully supported

TeamWave custom fields on Contacts, Deals, Projects, and Tasks are exported alongside their parent records and mapped to Monday.com column types: text fields become Text columns, date fields become Date columns, dropdowns become Dropdown columns, and numeric fields become Numbers columns. Formula fields from TeamWave have no direct Monday.com equivalent and are flagged as requiring manual column setup post-migration. Custom field definitions are delivered in a separate mapping sheet during the handoff.

TeamWave

Attachment

maps to

monday CRM

Not migrated (metadata only)

1:1
Fully supported

TeamWave file attachments linked to Contacts, Deals, and Projects have no bulk download mechanism. We extract attachment metadata (filename, file size, linked object type, linked object ID) from the TeamWave UI and generate a re-upload manifest. Customers manually upload files to the relevant Monday.com items post-migration using the manifest as a checklist. Binary file content does not migrate.

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.

TeamWave logo

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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monday CRM gotchas

High

Subitems are not included in bulk exports

High

Daily API call limits vary sharply by plan

Medium

Legacy automations (Sentence Builder) are being deprecated

Medium

Excel and account exports only include table views

Low

Enterprise admins can disable non-admin exports

Pair-specific challenges

  • TeamWave has no public API — all extraction is CSV-only

    TeamWave does not publish a developer API reference. Every migration requires CSV exports from the TeamWave web interface, which applies batch limits per export run. If the customer's dataset exceeds what the UI can export in a single pass, we script repeated UI exports and merge the results. This is significantly slower than API-based extraction and limits the automation of delta syncs. We advise scoping data volume early and, for large datasets, recommend the customer temporarily upgrade to TeamWave Pro if on the free tier to remove export caps.

  • Monday.com CRM does not preserve relational foreign keys automatically

    Monday.com CRM uses a board-and-item architecture rather than a relational database. TeamWave's Company-to-Contact links, Deal-to-Contact associations, and Project-to-Task parent-child relationships do not map as native lookups. We reconstruct these by storing the source foreign key in a text column on each item and creating Monday.com item links where the platform supports them. Teams expecting automatic relationship preservation across all record types will need to configure item links manually after migration or accept the flattened structure with cross-reference columns.

  • Monday.com does not have an HR module; HR records need a destination decision

    TeamWave's HR module (employee profiles, org structure) has no native Monday.com CRM equivalent. We can migrate HR records as People board items or as flat items in a separate HR board, but the customer must decide during scoping whether Monday.com will serve as their HR system going forward. If the decision is no, we flag HR records for manual migration to a dedicated HR tool and focus the migration on CRM records only.

  • TeamWave free tier enforces export caps that affect migration completeness

    TeamWave's Basic (Free) plan limits the number of contacts, projects, and stored records that can be exported. Teams on the free tier migrating to Monday.com CRM may find that TeamWave's export mechanism truncates their dataset before all records are captured. We flag this during scoping and advise upgrading TeamWave temporarily to Pro ($30/month) for the duration of the export phase. Without the upgrade, some historical records may not appear in the CSV and would need to be re-created manually in Monday.com.

  • Monday.com automations must be rebuilt manually post-migration

    Monday.com's automation capabilities (when-then triggers, notifications, status updates) exist within the Work OS and do not migrate from TeamWave's automation rules. We do not migrate automations as code. During migration we document every active TeamWave automation rule (trigger, conditions, actions) in a written handoff document with Monday.com automation equivalents listed. The customer's admin rebuilds these in Monday.com's Automation Center after migration. For teams with complex automation logic, this rebuild work can extend the post-migration timeline by two to four weeks.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful TeamWave to monday CRM data migration

  1. Discovery and export scoping

    We audit the TeamWave workspace across all modules: Contact count, Company count, Deal count with pipeline stages, Project count, Task count (including completed vs. open), User count, Calendar event volume, HR record count, and any custom field definitions. We check which TeamWave plan the customer is on (free or paid) because the free tier enforces export caps. The discovery output is a written scope document listing every object to migrate, an estimate of the export run count required for large datasets, and a recommendation to upgrade TeamWave temporarily if free-tier export limits would truncate the dataset.

  2. Monday.com board structure design

    We design the Monday.com board architecture before any data moves. For each TeamWave module we define a corresponding Monday.com board (People, Organizations, Deals with Pipeline view, Projects, Tasks, HR if applicable, and Calendar). We define columns to map every TeamWave field including custom fields, configure Group names to mirror TeamWave pipeline stages on Deals, and set up People columns for owner assignment. If the customer is not adopting Monday.com for HR, we exclude the HR module from the scope at this stage. The board design is validated with the customer's admin before export begins.

  3. CSV extraction and relationship mapping

    We run CSV exports from each TeamWave module via the web interface. For large datasets that exceed the UI batch limit, we script repeated exports and merge the results. In the staging environment we normalize blank fields, deduplicate records on email and company name, and resolve foreign keys: we match each Contact's company_id to the extracted Company record, match each Deal's contact_id to the Contact record, and match each Task's project_id to the Project record. The foreign key resolution produces a mapping table that guides the Monday.com import sequence.

  4. Sandbox import and reconciliation

    We import into a Monday.com workspace using the API or CSV import with columns pre-configured per the board design. The import sequence follows dependency order: Organizations first (for link resolution), then People (with organization links resolved), then Deals (with contact and owner links), then Projects, then Tasks, then Calendar events, then HR records. After each phase we emit a row-count reconciliation report. The customer's admin spot-checks 20-30 records per module against the TeamWave source and signs off the mapping before production migration. Any field mapping corrections happen in the sandbox phase.

  5. Production migration and delta sync

    We run the production migration with the validated mapping from sandbox. All imports use Monday.com's REST API with exponential backoff on rate-limit responses. After the initial load we perform a delta scan of TeamWave for any records modified during the export-and-load window and migrate the delta before cutover. Owner resolution is validated against the Monday.com Team Members list; any unmatched owners are flagged for the admin to provision before the next phase begins.

  6. Cutover, validation, and handoff

    We freeze TeamWave writes during cutover, run the final delta migration, then hand over the Monday.com workspace as the system of record. We validate record counts against the TeamWave export totals and run a spot-check reconciliation on 30 random records per module. We deliver the attachment re-upload manifest (list of filenames, sizes, and target Monday.com item IDs) for manual re-upload, and the automation reconstruction guide documenting every TeamWave automation rule with a Monday.com Automation Center equivalent. We do not rebuild TeamWave automations as Monday.com automations inside the migration scope; that work is handled by the customer's admin post-migration.

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
monday CRM logo

monday CRM

Destination

Strengths

  • Board-based UI makes pipeline stages and deal progress visually obvious without training.
  • No-code automation builder requires no developer resources to create lead routing and stage-triggered actions.
  • Flexible column system supports custom CRM fields without schema changes or admin involvement.
  • Integrates natively with Slack, Gmail, Outlook, and Zapier with minimal configuration overhead.
  • Layered product means teams already on monday Work Management can add CRM without migrating existing data.

Weaknesses

  • No native Contacts object separate from Items — contacts are managed inside a CRM module's People feature.
  • Pipeline and deal relationships use a flat item model rather than a relational object model, making complex CRM associations awkward.
  • Automations are plan-gated (250 actions/month on Standard, 25,000 on Pro) and the legacy Recipe system is being deprecated.
  • Customization and advanced views (Chart, Formula, Dependency) are locked behind Pro and Enterprise tiers.
  • Per-seat pricing with non-refundable annual billing creates cost lock-in risk during migration.

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 monday 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

    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 three and five weeks for accounts with fewer than 5,000 Contacts, 2,000 Deals, and no Projects or HR module. Migrations with active Projects, large Task counts, HR records, or datasets requiring multiple export passes from TeamWave move to seven to ten weeks. The primary variable is TeamWave's CSV export speed rather than Monday.com's API capacity, because TeamWave's UI-based extraction is the rate-limiting step.

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