Migrate your Grade data
An ERP platform for grade.app — research returned no substantive evidence on its data model, pricing, API, or object schema.
In its favor
Why people choose Grade
The signal that keeps Grade on the shortlist. Sourced from G2, Capterra, and customer scoping calls.
Grade consolidates Projects, Finance, HR / Recruiting, and Sales into one platform tuned for digital agencies and service businesses — replacing a Jira + QuickBooks + BambooHR + HubSpot stack with one tool.
1-2 day deployment is unusually fast for an ERP-class product and matches the readiness of small service teams that cannot afford a multi-month implementation.
Built in Ukraine with EU regional data hosting and GDPR compliance, which appeals to European service businesses concerned about US data residency.
Free tier for non-profits, IT volunteer initiatives, and social impact organizations, plus up to 90% discounts for Ukrainian companies — a positioning choice that builds local goodwill.
AI-powered resume parsing and an AI assistant ship inside the platform rather than as an add-on, which matters for recruiting modules where parsing is a daily workflow.
Grade is purpose-built for services / agencies — companies that pivot toward manufacturing, retail, or inventory-heavy operations outgrow it because there is no MRP, BOM, or warehouse module.
Large enterprises with multi-entity consolidations, intercompany eliminations, and statutory reporting across many tax jurisdictions outgrow the platform's services-shaped object model.
Public review presence is thin — there is limited independent G2 / Capterra coverage, which makes procurement comparisons against Odoo, NetSuite, or Workday harder.
Regulated industries (banking, healthcare claims, pharma) that require validated environments, deep audit trails, or certified compliance modules will not find Grade fits procurement gates.
Pricing tiers per user mean costs grow linearly with team size — large delivery teams sometimes migrate to flat-fee enterprise ERPs once headcount passes a threshold.
Reasons to switch
Why people leave Grade
The recurring reasons buyers give for replacing Grade. Presented as facts, not knocks.
Platform scorecard
Strengths, weaknesses, and where Grade fits
Grades across six dimensions, plus a SWOT-style view of where the platform shines and where it falls short.
SWOT — strengths, weaknesses, and use-case fit
Strengths
Weaknesses
Where it works
Where it struggles
Pricing tiers
Grade pricing overview
Grade publishes four tiers anchored on per-user monthly pricing with annual discounts: Freemium at €0/month, Core at €8-€10/user/month, Pro at €23-€27/user/month, and Enterprise at €31-€39/user/month. Pro adds advanced HR, recruiting, and AI features; Enterprise adds dedicated account management and custom workflows. Non-profits, IT volunteer initiatives, and youth/social impact organizations qualify for the free tier; Ukrainian companies receive up to 90% discounts as a wartime support program.
Freemium
Tier 1 of 4
€0/month
What's included
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What gets migrated
Grade object support
Object-by-object support for Grade migrations. Per-pair details surface during scoping.
Chart of Accounts
Mapping requiredFinance module income and expense categories serve as Grade's account structure. Account hierarchies need to be reconstructed in the destination's GL, since Grade is services-shaped rather than full GAAP-style GL.
Customers
Fully supportedClients in the Sales / CRM module hold contact info, billing address, and project / invoice associations. We migrate the full client record and preserve the Project and Invoice linkages.
Vendors
Mapping requiredVendors appear as expense counterparties in the Finance module. They are not modeled as deeply as in a full ERP — we migrate vendor names and outstanding payables but flag any missing master data fields.
Items
Mapping requiredGrade does not maintain a deep product / SKU catalog (no inventory). Service line items used on invoices act as the closest equivalent. We migrate service item definitions and pricing as catalog entries in the destination.
Transactions
Mapping requiredInvoices, payments, and expense entries make up the transaction set. We migrate the full transaction log with date, counterparty, amount, and project / category association preserved.
Inventory
Not in this platformGrade does not include an inventory module. Service businesses don't need one; migrations to inventory-aware destinations would require sourcing stock data from a separate system.
Purchase Orders
Not in this platformGrade does not appear to expose a formal Purchase Order workflow. Procurement is handled through Expense entries against vendors rather than a PO-to-bill cycle.
Budget
Mapping requiredProject-level budgets are first-class in Grade and feed real-time burn tracking. We extract project budgets along with the underlying time entries and expenses so the destination can reconstruct the budget-vs-actual view.
| Object | Support | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chart of Accounts | Mapping required | Finance module income and expense categories serve as Grade's account structure. Account hierarchies need to be reconstructed in the destination's GL, since Grade is services-shaped rather than full GAAP-style GL. |
| Customers | Fully supported | Clients in the Sales / CRM module hold contact info, billing address, and project / invoice associations. We migrate the full client record and preserve the Project and Invoice linkages. |
| Vendors | Mapping required | Vendors appear as expense counterparties in the Finance module. They are not modeled as deeply as in a full ERP — we migrate vendor names and outstanding payables but flag any missing master data fields. |
| Items | Mapping required | Grade does not maintain a deep product / SKU catalog (no inventory). Service line items used on invoices act as the closest equivalent. We migrate service item definitions and pricing as catalog entries in the destination. |
| Transactions | Mapping required | Invoices, payments, and expense entries make up the transaction set. We migrate the full transaction log with date, counterparty, amount, and project / category association preserved. |
| Inventory | Not in this platform | Grade does not include an inventory module. Service businesses don't need one; migrations to inventory-aware destinations would require sourcing stock data from a separate system. |
| Purchase Orders | Not in this platform | Grade does not appear to expose a formal Purchase Order workflow. Procurement is handled through Expense entries against vendors rather than a PO-to-bill cycle. |
| Budget | Mapping required | Project-level budgets are first-class in Grade and feed real-time burn tracking. We extract project budgets along with the underlying time entries and expenses so the destination can reconstruct the budget-vs-actual view. |
Gotchas
What to watch for in Grade migrations
Issues we've hit on past Grade migrations, tagged by severity. FlitStack AI handles every one — surfacing them up front because buyer engineering teams want to know.
Cross-module data lineage (time entry -> invoice -> payroll) must be preserved
Services-shaped data model does not include inventory or MRP
Resume files and AI-parsed candidate data are two separate artifacts
Free / discounted tiers (non-profits, Ukrainian companies) carry feature restrictions
| Severity | Issue |
|---|---|
| High | Cross-module data lineage (time entry -> invoice -> payroll) must be preserved |
| High | Services-shaped data model does not include inventory or MRP |
| Medium | Resume files and AI-parsed candidate data are two separate artifacts |
| Low | Free / discounted tiers (non-profits, Ukrainian companies) carry feature restrictions |
Leaving Grade?
Where Grade customers move next
6 destinations Grade can migrate to.
How a Grade migration works
Four steps, Grade-specific
Connect
Grade markets API access alongside webhooks and automations, but the developer portal authentication mechanism (OAuth 2.0, API key, etc.) is not openly published on the marketing site. We confirm authentication during scoping. into Grade. Scopes limited to read-only on the data we move.
Map
We translate Grade-specific structures (custom fields, objects, value lists) to the destination's model.
Sample
Test with a 50–200 record subset to validate Grade quirks before production.
Migrate
Full migration with Grade rate-limit handling. Rollback available throughout.
FAQ
Grade migration FAQ
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