CRM migration

Migrate from Tubular CRM to Odoo CRM

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

Tubular CRM logo

Tubular CRM

Source

Odoo CRM

Destination

Odoo CRM logo

Compatibility

83%

10 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Tubular CRM and Odoo CRM.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

3-5 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Tubular CRM to Odoo CRM is a migration from a focused sales pipeline tool into a modular ERP platform where CRM is one component of a larger suite. Tubular organizes Leads, Deals, Contacts, Tags, and Tasks within customizable pipelines, but its REST API is gated behind the Enterprise tier and is not publicly documented, which forces Pro-tier accounts to rely on manual CSV exports from the UI. Odoo CRM uses a separate Companies object that must exist before Contacts can be fully configured, and Odoo's Tag model stores labels as ir.model.data records rather than flat label arrays. We sequence the export from Tubular in dependency order (Companies/Contacts first, then Deals, then Activities), pre-configure the Odoo pipeline stages and sales teams before import, and preserve all Tag assignments during the transfer. Deal Stage Triggers and Email Templates are Tubular-native automations that do not exist in Odoo and are documented in a written handoff for your admin to rebuild in Odoo Action Rules. Reports are view-only in Tubular and cannot be programmatically extracted; we advise customers to screenshot critical reports before migration cutoff. We do not migrate Workflows, Sequences, or Automations as code; we deliver a written inventory of every active Tubular automation for your admin to rebuild post-migration.

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

Tubular CRM logo

Tubular CRM

What's pushing teams away

  • As a relatively new and smaller CRM, teams outgrow Tubular when they need advanced reporting, multi-pipeline support, or native integrations beyond Zapier.
  • The platform lacks public API documentation, making it difficult for technical teams to build custom integrations or export data programmatically for migrations.
  • Some users report that periodic UI updates introduce minor learning curves, and the small user community means few third-party guides or community answers exist.
  • Workflow automation capabilities are limited compared to HubSpot or Pipedrive, pushing sales teams with complex sequences toward more capable platforms.

Choosing

Odoo CRM logo

Odoo CRM

What's pulling them in

  • Teams choose Odoo CRM for its modular architecture — one base install with one-click app additions means they can adopt CRM alone and add accounting, inventory, or sales later as the business grows.
  • Small businesses pick Odoo because the Community edition is free and open-source, with no per-user or contact limits, allowing full evaluation before committing to a paid Enterprise tier.
  • The drag-and-drop Kanban pipeline and AI lead scoring are highlighted across G2 reviews as concrete features that make lead management faster and more visual than spreadsheet-based workflows.
  • Odoo's native integration with email, live chat, SMS, VoIP, and WhatsApp means inbound leads from multiple channels feed into a single pipeline without third-party middleware.
  • Companies in retail, supply chain, and construction value that Odoo's CRM module shares the same PostgreSQL database and UI as its ERP modules, eliminating data silos between sales and operations.

Object mapping

How Tubular CRM objects map to Odoo CRM

Each row shows how a Tubular CRM object lands in Odoo CRM, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.

Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.

Tubular CRM

Contact

maps to

Odoo CRM

Contact

1:1
Fully supported

Tubular Contacts map to Odoo CRM Contacts. We extract Contact name, email, phone, company association, owner, and custom fields from Tubular CSV exports. Because Odoo requires an existing Company record before a Contact's company_id field can be set, we import Companies first, then Contacts, resolving the company_id reference at migration time. If a Tubular Contact has no associated Company, we create a minimal Odoo Company record or attach the Contact to a designated catch-all company based on customer preference during scoping.

Tubular CRM

Company

maps to

Odoo CRM

Company

1:1
Fully supported

Tubular Companies map to Odoo CRM Companies (res.partner records with company_type = company). Company name, address, domain, and custom fields migrate directly. The company domain becomes the Website field on the Odoo partner record. We create all Companies before any Contact insert to satisfy Odoo's partner dependency chain. Duplicate Companies detected by domain match are flagged in a reconciliation report for the customer to resolve.

Tubular CRM

Deal

maps to

Odoo CRM

Opportunity

1:1
Fully supported

Tubular Deals map to Odoo CRM Opportunities. Deal name, value, stage assignment, owner, associated Contact, associated Company, and deal-level notes transfer directly. Payment terms from Tubular map to Odoo's payment_term_id on the Opportunity. We resolve the owner to an Odoo User by email match and the associated Contact and Company to their Odoo partner IDs before Opportunity insert. Closed-won and closed-lost status from Tubular map to Odoo's stage configuration, with the probability percentage preserved as a custom field if the customer requires it for reporting.

Tubular CRM

Pipeline Stage

maps to

Odoo CRM

CRM Stage

lossy
Fully supported

Tubular's custom pipeline stages (stage names, order, and color) map to Odoo CRM Stage records within the relevant Sales Team. Probability percentages configured per stage in Tubular map to Odoo stage probability values. Stage-specific triggers (Deal Stage Triggers on Enterprise) are documented separately as they require manual rebuild in Odoo Action Rules; we do not migrate them as automation logic.

Tubular CRM

Lead

maps to

Odoo CRM

Lead

1:1
Fully supported

Tubular Leads (distinct from Contacts in Tubular's data model) map directly to Odoo CRM Leads. Lead source, status, owner, and custom Lead Builder fields transfer. The Lead-to-Contact conversion workflow is a manual step in Odoo post-import; we flag all Tubular Leads with a conversion-ready flag in a dedicated Odoo custom field so the sales team can process conversions in the correct sequence. Any AI-scored lead ratings from Tubular's DNA Credits feature are preserved in a custom field for the customer's admin to reference during conversion.

Tubular CRM

Tag

maps to

Odoo CRM

Tag

1:1
Fully supported

Tubular Tags applied to Deals and Contacts migrate to Odoo Tags (mail.message.mttag records). Tags stored as flat label arrays in Tubular are matched by name to existing Odoo tags or created as new tag records during migration. Because Odoo's tag model is object-agnostic (tags can apply across multiple object types), we preserve the full tag set with a reference to which object each tag was originally attached to. We flag any tag naming conflicts (e.g., identically named tags on Deals vs Contacts) for customer resolution.

Tubular CRM

Task

maps to

Odoo CRM

Task

1:1
Fully supported

Tubular Tasks linked to Leads and Deals map to Odoo CRM Tasks (crm.activity records). Task title, due date, owner, completion status, and description transfer. Recurring task patterns do not have an export equivalent in Tubular and are flagged as a manual rebuild item in Odoo. Incomplete tasks are imported as open Odoo activities; completed tasks import with their completion date preserved. Owner resolution uses email matching to Odoo Users.

Tubular CRM

Activity Log (Email, Call, Note)

maps to

Odoo CRM

Activity

1:1
Fully supported

Tubular email logs, call logs, and notes attached to Deals and Contacts migrate as Odoo CRM activities. Email subject and body transfer as a Note activity on the Odoo Opportunity or Lead. Call logs transfer as Call activities with duration preserved. Because Tubular's activity export format varies between UI CSV and API (Enterprise), we normalize the output into Odoo's activity schema before import, mapping the original activity timestamp to the Odoo activity's date field.

Tubular CRM

Owner / User

maps to

Odoo CRM

User

1:1
Fully supported

Tubular Owner records map to Odoo Users by email address match. We extract every distinct owner referenced across Contacts, Companies, Deals, and Leads. Owners without a matching Odoo User are placed in a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before record import resumes. The customer's admin decides whether inactive Tubular owners become inactive Odoo users or are reassigned to active users during migration.

Tubular CRM

Document / Attachment

maps to

Odoo CRM

Attachment

1:1
Fully supported

Files attached within Tubular deal flows are extracted via UI scraping or API where available. We preserve file names and link them to the correct Odoo Opportunity or Lead record via ir.attachment records. The file binary content transfers where extractable; files stored in Tubular's hosted attachment system with no direct download URL are flagged for manual download before migration cutoff.

Tubular CRM

Report

maps to

Odoo CRM

Report

1:1
Fully supported

Tubular generates MoM/QoQ reports, Lead Source reports, and Task reports that are view-only with no export endpoint. These cannot be programmatically extracted. We advise customers to screenshot or manually export any critical reports before migration cutoff. In Odoo, we recreate the equivalent report logic using Odoo's reporting views and CSV export capability on the migrated data, but historical data points embedded in Tubular's reports do not transfer.

Tubular CRM

DNA Credits (enrichment data)

maps to

Odoo CRM

Custom Field

lossy
Fully supported

DNA Credits power Tubular's AI enrichment features, which assign lead ratings and enriched company profiles. These credits have no Odoo equivalent and do not transfer. We document the credit count and any enriched data (AI-scored lead ratings, enriched company profiles) generated by Tubular before migration, and we store that data as custom fields on the migrated Lead or Contact records so the enrichment signal is not lost when credits are exhausted in the old platform.

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.

Tubular CRM logo

Tubular CRM gotchas

High

Enterprise REST API is undocumented and gated

Medium

Reports cannot be programmatically exported

Low

DNA Credits limit AI-enriched enrichment features

Medium

Deal Stage Triggers are platform-specific automation

Medium

UI-based extraction required for Pro-tier exports

Odoo CRM logo

Odoo CRM gotchas

High

Odoo.sh version gating blocks assisted migrations from trial

High

Enterprise modules fail to install on Community after database restore

Medium

Custom module view inheritance breaks between Odoo major versions

Medium

Custom fields risk losing their application context on Community

Low

API access for Community is gated behind the Custom Plan

Pair-specific challenges

  • Odoo requires Companies before Contacts in the import chain

    Odoo CRM enforces a partner-company dependency: a Contact's company_id field requires an existing Company (res.partner with company_type = company) in the database. Tubular does not enforce this hierarchy, so Contact records often have ad-hoc company associations or no company at all. We resolve this by extracting Companies first, creating a stub Company record for any Contact without a Tubular company association, then importing Contacts with their resolved company_id references. Migrations that skip this ordering step produce Odoo validation errors and failed Contact imports.

  • Tubular's Pro tier has no API; exports are manual CSV from the UI

    On Tubular's Pro tier ($15/user/month), there is no REST API access. Exports are limited to manual CSV downloads from the UI and Zapier integration data. We coordinate with the customer to schedule exports in the correct dependency order (Companies/Contacts first, then Deals, then Activities) to preserve relational integrity. Manual UI exports are time-consuming for teams with large datasets, and we advise allocating dedicated time for the export phase before migration day. Enterprise customers with API access may still face undocumented endpoint behavior that requires direct credential testing before schema verification.

  • Deal Stage Triggers are Tubular-native and have no Odoo equivalent

    Tubular Enterprise includes Deal Stage Triggers and Email Templates that fire on stage changes. These are Tubular-specific automation logic that do not exist in Odoo. We document each active trigger and email template during discovery so the customer can manually rebuild equivalent automation in Odoo's Action Rules, prioritizing revenue-critical triggers first. We do not migrate triggers as automation code; the customer receives a written trigger inventory with Odoo Action Rule equivalents for each.

  • Tubular reports cannot be exported programmatically

    Tubular generates MoM/QoQ reports, Lead Source Reports, and Task Reports that are view-only in the application. There is no documented export endpoint or download mechanism for these reports. We flag this limitation during scoping and advise customers to screenshot or manually export any critical historical reports before migration cutoff. In Odoo, we recreate the report logic using Odoo's reporting module, but historical data points embedded in Tubular's reports do not transfer.

  • DNA Credits and AI-enriched data do not carry over

    Tubular's DNA Credits (100 on Pro, 250 on Enterprise) power AI enrichment features including lead scoring and enriched company profiles. These credits do not carry over to Odoo and have no monetary equivalent in standard migration tooling. We document the credit count and advise customers to export any enriched data (AI-scored lead ratings, enriched company profiles) before migration so that enrichment data is preserved as custom fields on the migrated Lead or Contact records rather than lost when credits are exhausted in the old platform.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Tubular CRM to Odoo CRM data migration

  1. Discovery and export method determination

    We audit the source Tubular account across tier (Pro or Enterprise), active pipelines, custom fields on Contacts/Companies/Deals/Leads, active Deal Stage Triggers, email templates, DNA Credit usage, and activity volume. If the customer is on Pro, we determine the full scope of manual CSV exports required and coordinate a scheduled export session. If the customer is on Enterprise, we request API credentials and test connectivity directly against the undocumented endpoint surface, falling back to CSV exports if API behavior cannot be verified. The discovery output is a written migration scope, an export checklist sequenced in dependency order, and a Tubular automation inventory (Deal Stage Triggers, email templates) for the rebuild handoff.

  2. Odoo schema pre-configuration

    We configure Odoo CRM before any data import begins. This includes provisioning the CRM sales team structure, defining pipeline stages (mapped from Tubular stage names and probabilities), creating custom fields on Contact, Company, Lead, and Opportunity to receive Tubular data that has no direct Odoo equivalent, and setting up tag infrastructure. We deploy Odoo configuration via XML-RPC or the Settings UI into a staging environment first. The customer reviews the configured pipeline stages and approves the Odoo data model before production migration begins.

  3. Data export and cleanup from Tubular

    We guide the customer through the export sequence in dependency order: Companies and Contacts first (to preserve relational integrity in Odoo), then Deals (with resolved Contact and Company IDs), then Leads, then Tasks, then Activity logs. Pro-tier customers perform manual CSV downloads from the UI; Enterprise customers may use API exports where credentials are available. We run a data quality audit on the exported CSVs, flagging duplicate records, missing required fields for Odoo import (particularly company_id on Contacts), and any Tubular custom fields that lack a mapping target. The customer resolves data quality issues before the migration window.

  4. Staging migration and reconciliation

    We run a full migration into Odoo staging using production-equivalent data volume. The customer reconciles record counts (Companies in, Contacts in, Deals in, Leads in, Activities in), spot-checks 25-50 random records against the Tubular source, and validates that Tags are correctly attached and Deal values match. Any mapping corrections, field mismatches, or Odoo configuration gaps are resolved in staging before the production migration date is confirmed.

  5. Owner reconciliation and User provisioning

    We extract every distinct Tubular Owner referenced on Contacts, Companies, Deals, and Leads and match by email against the Odoo destination's User table. Owners without a matching Odoo User go to a reconciliation queue. The customer's Odoo admin provisions any missing Users before production migration resumes. Owner resolution is a prerequisite for the production migration because OwnerId references are required on most standard objects in Odoo.

  6. Production migration in dependency order

    We run production migration in record-dependency order: Companies (from Tubular Companies), Contacts (with resolved company_id), Deals (with resolved contact_id, company_id, and user_id), Leads, Tags (applied to the migrated records), Tasks, Activity logs (email, call, note as CRM activities), and Documents/Attachments. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. We use Odoo's XML-RPC write API for record insert with batch chunking and retry logic on timeouts.

  7. Cutover, validation, and automation rebuild handoff

    We freeze Tubular writes during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then mark Odoo as the system of record. We deliver the Deal Stage Trigger and email template inventory document to the customer's admin team for rebuild in Odoo Action Rules. We support a one-week hypercare window where we resolve reconciliation issues raised by the sales team. We do not rebuild Tubular automations as Odoo Action Rules inside the migration scope; that is a separate engagement or an internal admin task.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

Tubular CRM logo

Tubular CRM

Source

Strengths

  • Clean, minimalist interface ranked in Capterra's top 10 most user-friendly CRMs.
  • Unlimited Deals and Contacts on all pricing tiers.
  • Forecast-weighted pipeline views with deal-stage triggers available on Enterprise.
  • Native Zapier integration for connecting to 1,000+ third-party apps.
  • Competitive per-user pricing ($15-$20/month) for small sales teams.

Weaknesses

  • REST API is Enterprise-only and not publicly documented, limiting programmatic data access.
  • No native bulk import/export UI beyond CSV, making large dataset migrations manually intensive.
  • Workflow automation and sequence capabilities lag behind HubSpot and Pipedrive.
  • Small market share and limited third-party community result in sparse documentation and few migration guides.
  • Reports and analytics are view-only and cannot be exported for reconstruction in another CRM.
Odoo CRM logo

Odoo CRM

Destination

Strengths

  • Modular open-source architecture lets teams start with CRM and add ERP apps as needs grow, all sharing one PostgreSQL database.
  • Free Community edition with no contact limits and full source code access means zero licensing cost for evaluation and small deployments.
  • Drag-and-drop Kanban pipeline with AI lead scoring gives a visual, prioritized view of the sales funnel without requiring custom configuration.
  • Native integrations with email, live chat, SMS, VoIP, WhatsApp, and social media feed all inbound leads into a single unified inbox.
  • Active Odoo Community Association (OCA) maintains dozens of community-maintained modules on GitHub for extended functionality.

Weaknesses

  • Gmail and email integration reliability is a recurring complaint — threads drop and conversations scatter across inboxes, disrupting sales team workflows.
  • Enterprise edition pricing stacks quickly: multiple apps at per-user rates ($25–$50/user/month) plus Odoo.sh hosting costs more than many SMBs anticipate.
  • Setup and configuration complexity increases significantly once custom fields, automation rules, and multiple installed modules are in play.
  • Odoo.sh trial databases run on a version (e.g., 18.3) that is not directly migratable to Odoo.sh, blocking the assisted migration path Odoo advertises.
  • Version upgrades between major Odoo releases (e.g., 17→18) frequently break custom module view definitions and XPath expressions, requiring manual remediation.

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 Tubular CRM and Odoo 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

    Tubular CRM: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

Estimator

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Most Tubular-to-Odoo migrations land between three and five weeks for accounts under 15,000 Contacts and 3,000 Deals with no Odoo multi-module scope. Migrations with large activity histories, multiple pipeline configurations, or co-migration of Odoo Sales + Accounting modules move to eight to twelve weeks because of Odoo configuration depth, multi-phase import sequencing, and the Odoo Action Rules rebuild scope. Pro-tier Tubular accounts add one to two weeks for manual CSV export preparation that Enterprise-tier accounts may shorten through API access.

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