CRM migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Touchdown and monday CRM. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in monday CRM.
Touchdown
Source
monday CRM
Destination
Compatibility
4 of 8
objects map 1:1 between Touchdown and monday CRM.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Moving from Touchdown to Monday.com CRM is a shift from a B2B marketing automation CRM to a board-based work management platform with CRM features. Touchdown organizes around Contacts, Companies, Campaigns, and Audience Segments; Monday.com CRM uses Boards, People entities, Deals, and Activity tracking on a visual grid model. Touchdown does not publish a public API schema, so we begin with authenticated API exploration to discover the actual data model before designing the mapping. We migrate Contact records, Company records, Campaign metadata, and Activity history into Monday.com CRM's equivalent structures. Monday.com CRM's automations and workflow rules are separate from the migration scope; we deliver a written inventory of every automation requiring rebuild in monday's automation builder. The platform's lack of native marketing automation features (lead scoring, campaign nurturing, cadence-based email sequences) means teams should evaluate whether their post-sale CRM needs are met by monday's capabilities before committing to the switch.
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
Leaving
What's pushing teams away
Choosing
What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a Touchdown 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.
Touchdown
Contact
monday CRM
People (within CRM Board)
1:1Touchdown Contact records migrate to Monday.com CRM People entities attached to a CRM Board. We resolve the undocumented Contact field schema via authenticated API exploration during the discovery phase, then map each discovered field to a monday column type (text, number, date, dropdown, email, phone). Duplicate detection uses email as the dedupe key. Custom contact properties discovered during API exploration are mapped to custom monday columns or handled as text fields if the target column type is unavailable.
Touchdown
Company
monday CRM
Entity (within CRM Board)
1:1Touchdown Company records map to Monday.com CRM Entity records. The Company domain or website field populates the monday Entity's Website column. Entities are created before People import so that the People-to-Entity link is satisfied at the moment of Contact insert. If Touchdown Company schema includes custom fields, they map to monday Entity columns of equivalent type.
Touchdown
Campaign
monday CRM
Board (with Group columns)
1:manyTouchdown Campaigns require reconstruction in Monday.com CRM because monday does not have a native campaign object. Each Touchdown Campaign becomes a monday Board, with Campaign status and audience size stored in board-level columns. Campaign audience segments are recreated as Group filters within the board, and segment membership is preserved as a tag or multi-select column on the relevant People records. We document the original segment membership for the customer's admin to finalize post-migration.
Touchdown
Segment
monday CRM
Board Group + Filter View
lossyTouchdown Audience Segments have no direct monday.com equivalent, so we recreate them as filtered views on the relevant CRM Board. Each segment definition is documented during API exploration and translated into monday's filter conditions (by column, operator, and value). Segment membership is preserved as a tag column on People records so that the underlying data remains filterable in monday after migration.
Touchdown
Email Template
monday CRM
Text Content (stored in Document or Description)
lossyTouchdown Email Templates contain personalized messaging content and merge fields that have no native template storage equivalent in Monday.com CRM. We export template body text and merge field names, store them as a structured document in monday's Docs or as a text column on a dedicated Board, and flag the merge field mapping for the customer's admin to reconfigure in any third-party email integration they adopt post-migration.
Touchdown
Engagement / Activity
monday CRM
Activity Log (Emails & Activities on People/Entity)
1:1Touchdown engagement history (email opens, clicks, sends, calls, meetings, tasks) migrates to Monday.com CRM's Emails & Activities section on the relevant People or Entity record. We map each engagement type to the closest monday Activity type and preserve the original timestamp in the activity date column. Activity content and metadata are stored as notes or description fields in monday's activity log. If Touchdown engagement records include custom metadata, it is stored in custom columns or text fields.
Touchdown
Owner
monday CRM
Team Member / Assignee
1:1Touchdown User and Owner records are mapped to Monday.com CRM workspace members by email. We resolve owner email addresses against the monday workspace member list during scoping. Any Owner without a matching monday user is placed in a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before record import proceeds. Owner assignment on records migrates as the monday Assignee field.
Touchdown
Custom Field
monday CRM
Custom Column
lossyTouchdown custom field schema is not publicly documented, so we discover all custom field definitions during authenticated API exploration in the discovery phase. Each custom field is typed (text, number, date, checkbox, dropdown) and mapped to the closest Monday.com CRM column type. Fields with unsupported types (such as multi-checkbox or rich-text with embedded media) are stored as text with a note flagging the original data format for admin review.
| Touchdown | monday CRM | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | People (within CRM Board)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Company | Entity (within CRM Board)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Campaign | Board (with Group columns)1:many | Fully supported | |
| Segment | Board Group + Filter Viewlossy | Fully supported | |
| Email Template | Text Content (stored in Document or Description)lossy | Fully supported | |
| Engagement / Activity | Activity Log (Emails & Activities on People/Entity)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Owner | Team Member / Assignee1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Field | Custom Columnlossy | 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.
Touchdown gotchas
Catalog website appears mismatched
Touchdown stores its data inside the Dynamics 365 / Dataverse tenant
SMS data and consent records require careful handling
Templates and landing pages reference Microsoft-hosted assets
monday CRM gotchas
Subitems are not included in bulk exports
Daily API call limits vary sharply by plan
Legacy automations (Sentence Builder) are being deprecated
Excel and account exports only include table views
Enterprise admins can disable non-admin exports
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and API schema exploration
We authenticate against the Touchdown API and explore the actual data model across Contacts, Companies, Campaigns, Segments, Engagement history, and custom fields. We document every field name, type, and relationship, flagging undocumented or non-standard field types. We simultaneously scope the Monday.com CRM destination workspace: board structure, column types, user count, and workspace hierarchy. The discovery output is a written migration scope with object-level mapping and a data quality audit report identifying duplicates, incomplete records, and formatting inconsistencies that require cleansing before import.
Schema design and monday board setup
We design the Monday.com CRM destination schema based on the Touchdown data model discovery. This includes provisioning a CRM Board with People and Entity columns mapped to the discovered Touchdown fields, creating Board groups for segment representation, configuring Deal columns, and setting up custom columns for any Touchdown custom fields that require a non-standard column type. We document the email template and merge field structure for admin reference. The schema is validated in a monday test workspace before production setup.
Data extraction and transformation
We extract data from Touchdown via authenticated API calls, applying the data quality remediation identified in the discovery phase: duplicate deduplication by email address, phone and address format standardization, and null or placeholder field handling. Campaign structures are flattened into Board and Group definitions for monday. Engagement history is extracted with original timestamps preserved. The transform output is a set of monday-compatible import files for People, Entities, Deals, and Activities.
Sandbox migration and reconciliation
We run a test migration into a monday.com test workspace using production data volume. The customer's team lead reviews a sample of imported People records, Entity records, and Activity logs against the Touchdown source and signs off the mapping before production migration begins. Any field mapping corrections, column type adjustments, or data quality exceptions are resolved in this phase.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order: Entity records (from Touchdown Companies) first, then People records with Entity links resolved, then Deals, then Activity history. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report. We pause Touchdown writes during the cutover window and run a final delta migration to capture any records modified during the transition period. Monday workspace permissions are set for each migrated user based on the owner-to-member mapping from discovery.
Cutover, validation, and automation inventory handoff
We enable Monday.com CRM as the system of record, deliver the Automation and Segmentation Inventory document to the customer's admin team for rebuild in monday's automation builder, and run a 72-hour validation window to resolve any record discrepancies raised by the team. We do not rebuild automations, segmentation rules, or email templates as part of the migration scope; that work is a separate engagement or an internal admin task.
Platform deep dives
Touchdown
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
monday CRM
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 Touchdown and monday CRM.
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
Touchdown: Governed by Dataverse Web API service protection limits (per-user/per-app rate ceilings published by Microsoft). Touchdown does not impose additional documented limits on top..
Data volume sensitivity
Touchdown 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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