CRM migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Textedly and Freshsales. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Freshsales.
Textedly
Source
Freshsales
Destination
Compatibility
7 of 12
objects map 1:1 between Textedly and Freshsales.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
1-3 weeks
Overview
Moving from Textedly to Freshsales is a platform-type shift: Textedly is a US-only bulk SMS marketing tool centered on subscriber lists, keyword opt-ins, and auto-responder sequences, while Freshsales is a full CRM from Freshworks with built-in phone, email, AI-powered lead scoring, deal tracking, and workflow automation starting at $9 per user per month. The migration extracts Textedly's subscriber records (phone, name, email, tags, personalization fields, and subscription status) and loads them into Freshsales Contacts and Accounts, with suppressed-number flags preserved as a custom field so your team knows which contacts have carrier delivery risk. Keywords, auto-responders, drip sequences, and campaign history do not migrate as code; we deliver a written inventory of every active keyword flow and auto-responder with its conditions and message body so your admin rebuilds them in Freshsales Workflows. We do not migrate Textedly's short codes, carrier-assigned phone numbers, or Text-to-Pay Stripe records. Freshsales plan tier constrains how many custom fields are available per module, which determines whether personalization fields and campaign metadata carry as native fields or custom fields that your admin provisions before import.
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
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What's pushing teams away
Choosing
What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a Textedly object lands in Freshsales, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Textedly
Subscriber
Freshsales
Contact
1:1Textedly Subscriber records map to Freshsales Contact. Phone number becomes the Contact's phone field and is used as the dedupe key. First Name, Last Name, Email, City, State, and ZIP map directly to their Freshsales equivalents. We flag any Subscriber with zero delivery history or a suppressed-status indicator as a custom field sms_suppressed__c so your team knows which contacts have carrier delivery risk before sending from Freshsales or an integrated SMS tool.
Textedly
Subscriber
Freshsales
Account
lossyTextedly's Company Name field on a Subscriber maps to the Account Name on a Freshsales Account record. We create the Account before the Contact import so that the AccountId lookup is satisfied at the moment of Contact insert. If a Subscriber has no Company Name, the Contact remains unlinked to an Account; no orphaned-contact record is created.
Textedly
Group
Freshsales
Contact Tag
lossyTextedly Groups are flat subscriber lists used for targeted campaigns. We preserve group membership as Freshsales Tags on each Contact record. If a Subscriber belongs to multiple Groups, each group name becomes a separate Tag. Flat group structure means no hierarchy mapping is required; the tag list is the direct output.
Textedly
Tag
Freshsales
Contact Tag
1:1Textedly free-form tags on Subscribers export as comma-separated values and parse into a tag array per contact. Each tag maps to a Freshsales Tag on the Contact record. Tags used for contact classification carry over directly; no tag normalization is performed unless requested during scoping.
Textedly
Personalization Field
Freshsales
Custom Field (Contact module)
lossyTextedly personalization tokens (Birth Date, Address, Company Name, and any custom fields beyond the standard export template) map to Freshsales custom fields on the Contact module. Freshsales Sprout plan has zero custom fields; Blossom allows 10, Garden allows 100, and Estate allows 300 per module. We confirm the destination plan tier during scoping and provision the required custom fields before import begins. Fields that exceed the plan limit are flagged for admin to promote the plan or drop from the import scope.
Textedly
Campaign
Freshsales
Custom Field or Note (Contact)
1:1Textedly campaign metadata (campaign name, send date, delivery count, MMS media URLs) does not map to a standard Freshsales object because Freshsales has no native campaign record tied to contact-level delivery receipts. We export campaign aggregate stats and attach them to each relevant Contact as a custom text field (e.g., last_sms_campaign__c) or as a Note record. MMS media URLs are preserved as a text list; the media files themselves do not transfer between platforms.
Textedly
Keyword
Freshsales
Workflow (inventory document)
1:1Textedly keywords trigger opt-in flows tied to specific short codes. We export the keyword-to-autoresponder mapping as a structured workflow record with the keyword, associated list, trigger conditions, message body, and delay. Because Freshsales Workflows operate on CRM record triggers rather than inbound SMS keywords, the direct automation logic does not migrate. We deliver a written keyword inventory document so your admin rebuilds the logic in Freshsales Workflows or configures a third-party SMS integration (Twilio, MessageBird) that supports inbound keyword handling.
Textedly
Auto-Responder
Freshsales
Workflow (inventory document)
1:1Textedly auto-responders are triggered by keywords or time-based rules with message bodies and delay intervals. We export each auto-responder as a structured automation record: trigger type, conditions, message body, delay, and any branching logic. Freshsales Workflows use record-created, record-updated, and scheduled triggers with different action types. We deliver a written auto-responder inventory that maps each Textedly flow to a recommended Freshsales Workflow equivalent. Rebuilding is admin work outside the data-migration scope.
Textedly
Drip Campaign / Sequence
Freshsales
Workflow (inventory document)
1:1Textedly drip sequences are time-based automated message chains. We export step order, delay intervals, and message content as structured workflow data. Freshsales Workflows support scheduled and record-triggered automation but do not use a sequence-step cadence model identical to SMS drip campaigns. We deliver a written drip-sequence inventory documenting the full chain; your admin rebuilds the cadence in Freshsales Workflows or through an integrated sales engagement tool.
Textedly
Unsubscribe Status
Freshsales
Contact sms_unsubscribe_status__c (custom field)
lossyTextedly exports unsubscribe as a binary flag (Subscribed or Unsubscribed) with no timestamp. We preserve this flag as a custom field sms_unsubscribe_status__c on the Contact record set to true or false. We also flag the gap: contacts who unsubscribed years ago and those who opted out last week cannot be distinguished in the export. Your Freshsales admin should apply a conservative re-engagement policy for contacts with an unset or old unsubscribe timestamp.
Textedly
Suppressed / Flagged Number
Freshsales
Contact sms_suppressed__c (custom field)
lossyTextedly carriers silently suppress numbers without notifying the account holder, and suppressed numbers receive no delivery confirmation. We identify Subscribers with zero delivery history or no sent-message record and flag them as potentially suppressed before import by setting a custom field sms_suppressed__c to true on the Freshsales Contact. Your team avoids sending to suppressed numbers through Freshsales or any connected SMS tool.
Textedly
User / Team Member
Freshsales
User
1:1Textedly user accounts with roles and campaign ownership map to Freshsales User records. We export user email, name, and role. Destination role assignment is a manual step requiring your Freshsales admin to map Textedly roles to Freshsales roles (Admin, Standard) during provisioning. OwnerId resolution on imported Contacts requires active Freshsales Users to exist first.
| Textedly | Freshsales | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subscriber | Contact1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Subscriber | Accountlossy | Fully supported | |
| Group | Contact Taglossy | Fully supported | |
| Tag | Contact Tag1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Personalization Field | Custom Field (Contact module)lossy | Fully supported | |
| Campaign | Custom Field or Note (Contact)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Keyword | Workflow (inventory document)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Auto-Responder | Workflow (inventory document)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Drip Campaign / Sequence | Workflow (inventory document)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Unsubscribe Status | Contact sms_unsubscribe_status__c (custom field)lossy | Fully supported | |
| Suppressed / Flagged Number | Contact sms_suppressed__c (custom field)lossy | Fully supported | |
| User / Team Member | User1:1 | 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.
Textedly gotchas
Free trial users cannot bulk upload subscribers
Per-message pricing creates variable billing
Phone number suppression without user notification
Unsubscribe status is binary and not date-stamped
Canadian users require manual migration support
Freshsales gotchas
Freddy AI is Pro-tier only despite heavy marketing
Post-migration emails and sequences are disabled
Bot session credits are a one-time 500-session allocation
Phone credits charged per minute with no cap
File storage limits scale with plan tier
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and scoping call
We audit the Textedly account: subscriber count, exportable fields (standard fields plus any custom personalization fields), group list, active keywords, active auto-responders, drip sequences, and campaign history volume. We confirm the Freshsales plan tier to validate custom field headroom against the subscriber field count. We identify Canadian phone numbers and suppressed or flagged subscribers (zero delivery history) during scoping and flag them in the migration plan. The discovery output is a written scope document with record counts, field list, and any pre-provisioning required in Freshsales before import.
Textedly data extraction
We export the full subscriber list from Textedly via CSV including all standard fields (Phone, First Name, Last Name, Email, Address, City, State, ZIP, Company Name, Tags, Birth Date) and any custom fields configured in the account. We extract group membership as a separate table mapping each subscriber phone to group names. We export keyword-to-autoresponder mappings, drip sequence step data, and campaign metadata. Any subscribers with zero delivery history or flagged status are tagged as potentially carrier-suppressed during extraction.
Freshsales schema preparation
We create the required custom fields in Freshsales on the Contact module before import: sms_unsubscribe_status__c (checkbox), sms_suppressed__c (checkbox), last_sms_campaign__c (text), and any Textedly personalization fields that exceed the standard Freshsales Contact fields. We create any required Account records for subscribers with Company Name values. We confirm with your Freshsales admin that the plan tier supports the required field count. This step requires admin credentials with field-creation permissions.
Data transformation and field mapping
We transform the Textedly export into Freshsales-compatible CSV format with field-type validation: phone numbers formatted to E.164 standard, email addresses validated, date fields converted to Freshsales date format. Tags parsed from comma-separated Textedly export become Freshsales Tags applied per contact. Group membership becomes additional Tags. Subscribers with no Company Name are imported without an AccountId lookup (no orphaned Account is created). Suppressed and flagged subscribers receive sms_suppressed__c = true.
Sandbox or pilot import
For accounts with over 5,000 subscribers, we run a pilot import into a Freshsales sandbox environment or test account to validate field mapping, dedupe behavior on phone number, tag application, and custom field population. The customer spot-checks 20-30 records against the Textedly source before approving the full production import. Any field-type errors or truncation issues are corrected before the production run.
Production import and reconciliation
We run the full subscriber import into the production Freshsales environment in batches of up to 500 records per batch with validation between batches. We reconcile record counts: total subscribers exported from Textedly versus total Contacts created in Freshsales. Any records rejected during import (duplicate phone, missing required field) are logged and returned to the customer for resolution. We deliver a final reconciliation report with record counts, suppressed-number list, and any unmapped fields.
Cutover, handoff documentation, and keyword inventory delivery
We freeze writes to the Textedly account during cutover, run a final delta check for any subscribers added or modified since the last export, and load the delta into Freshsales. We deliver the keyword and auto-responder inventory document, the drip-sequence inventory, the suppressed-number list, and the campaign metadata export. We do not rebuild keyword flows or drip sequences in Freshsales; that work is documented for your admin to configure in Freshsales Workflows post-migration. We support a three-day hypercare window for reconciliation issues raised after cutover.
Platform deep dives
Textedly
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Freshsales
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard CRM migration. 2 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 Textedly and Freshsales.
Object compatibility
2 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
Textedly: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
Textedly 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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