ERP migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial and Dolibarr ERP. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Dolibarr ERP.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Source
Dolibarr ERP
Destination
Compatibility
9 of 12
objects map 1:1 between Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial and Dolibarr ERP.
Complexity
CModerate
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Migrating from Infor SyteLine or CloudSuite Industrial to Dolibarr is a platform-tier migration: SyteLine is an enterprise manufacturing ERP with bespoke SQL schemas, mixed-mode production support, and multi-site configuration, while Dolibarr is an open-source modular ERP-CRM targeting small and mid-sized businesses with a low total cost of ownership. The migration requires direct SQL extraction from SyteLine (on-premise) or the Infor OS API Gateway (cloud tenants), schema analysis to map SyteLine's extended column custom fields to Dolibarr's extrafields framework, and a BOM-to-Product transformation since Dolibarr lacks a native multi-level Bill of Materials engine. SyteLine's Jobs (manufacturing work orders) map to Dolibarr Projects with line items and time-tracking entries. We do not migrate SyteLine Workflows, CPQ configurations, custom Mongoose forms, or Infor OS-specific integrations; these require a separate rebuild or replacement scoping.
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 Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial object lands in Dolibarr ERP, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Customer
Dolibarr ERP
Third Party (Societe)
1:1SyteLine Customer records map to Dolibarr Third Party (type Customer). The SyteLine custaddr, payment terms, credit limit, and sales territory fields map to Dolibarr's address fields, condition_reglement, and mode_reglement. SyteLine's CRM attributes (credit status, account manager) map to Dolibarr's customer category and commercial fields. Multi-site SyteLine customers with separate billing or shipping addresses require Dolibarr address extensions or multiple Third Party records per site.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Vendor
Dolibarr ERP
Third Party (Supplier)
1:1SyteLine Vendor records map to Dolibarr Third Party (type Supplier). SyteLine's vendor address, banking details, and purchasing terms map to Dolibarr's corresponding fields. Vendors must be imported before Purchase Orders in both systems to satisfy referential integrity. SyteLine's vendor code becomes Dolibarr's siret or barcode field for deduplication.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Item (Product)
Dolibarr ERP
Product
1:1SyteLine Item records (stocked, non-stocked, service, and labor items) map to Dolibarr Product. SyteLine item types (Stockable, Service, Assembly) map to Dolibarr's type (Product, Service). Unit of measure from SyteLine's UM table maps to Dolibarr's units of measure. Cost layers (standard, average, last) migrate as Dolibarr pmp (weighted average price) and cost price fields. The price levels from SyteLine's price form map to Dolibarr customer price supplements or multi-currency price lists.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Bill of Materials (BOM)
Dolibarr ERP
Product (as kit) or Project
lossySyteLine BOMs (multi-level with operations and work centers) have no native Dolibarr equivalent. Dolibarr lacks a production work-order and routing engine. We assess the customer's BOM use case: for simple kitted products (sell-as-a-bundle), we create Dolibarr Products of type 'kit' with the BOM lines as sub-product lines. For manufacturing work orders requiring scheduling and labor tracking, we map BOMs to Dolibarr Projects with task lines carrying the component items and estimated hours. Customers needing full BOM-driven production scheduling will need to evaluate Dolibarr's third-party MRP plugins (e.g., Dolibarr-MRP module) or accept a process change.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Job (Manufacturing Work Order)
Dolibarr ERP
Project
1:manySyteLine Jobs (production work orders linking materials, labor, and operations) map to Dolibarr Projects. The Job header (job number, status, start date, completion date) becomes the Project record. Job materials map to Project line items referencing Products. Job operations and labor hours map to Project tasks with time-tracking entries. Job completions and scrap data map to task completion percentages and notes. Closed Jobs migrate as Projects with status Closed; open Jobs migrate as active Projects. SyteLine Job-to-Sales-Order linkages migrate as Project-to-Commercial-Proposal links.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Sales Order
Dolibarr ERP
Order (Commande)
1:1SyteLine Sales Orders map to Dolibarr Customer Orders. The order header (customer reference, order date, terms) maps directly. Line items map to Order lines with Product references resolved from the Items migration phase. Pricing, discounts, and delivery schedules migrate to Dolibarr order lines and date fields. Blanket orders with scheduled releases map to Dolibarr shipments linked to the parent order. Open orders migrate with status in progress; completed orders migrate as closed.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Purchase Order
Dolibarr ERP
Supplier Order
1:1SyteLine Purchase Orders map to Dolibarr Supplier Orders. Vendor references resolve from the Vendors migration phase. PO line items map to Dolibarr lines with Product references. Quantities, prices, and due dates migrate directly. Blanket POs with release schedules map to Dolibarr shipment receipts linked to the parent order. SyteLine's approval workflow status maps to Dolibarr's order status field.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Quote (CPQ)
Dolibarr ERP
Commercial Proposal (Propal)
1:1SyteLine Quotes generated via CPQ or manual entry map to Dolibarr Commercial Proposals. Quote headers, customer references, and configuration lines migrate. SyteLine's product configuration data (Configure-to-Order selections) migrates as Proposal line notes or as linked Product configurations depending on configuration complexity. Expired quotes migrate as closed proposals; active quotes migrate as open proposals with their expiration dates.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Chart of Accounts
Dolibarr ERP
Chart of Accounts
1:1SyteLine's GL structure (account codes, descriptions, account types, sub-account segments) maps to Dolibarr's Account Plan (plan_comptes). SyteLine's multi-company or multi-entity chart segments map to Dolibarr's journal or accounting configuration per entity. The migration preserves account type (Asset, Liability, Equity, Income, Expense) and the full segment structure for cost-center or department reporting. Dolibarr's accounting module must be activated before COA import.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Employee
Dolibarr ERP
User (HR module)
1:1SyteLine Employee records (name, department, job title, and compensation where the HR module is active) map to Dolibarr User records. Department and job title migrate as Dolibarr User properties and group assignments. SyteLine employee costing rates map to Dolibarr cost accounting fields. Users must be provisioned in Dolibarr before importing any records where OwnerId references apply.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Custom Fields
Dolibarr ERP
Extrafields
lossySyteLine custom fields stored as extended SQL columns on any master or transactional table map to Dolibarr extrafields. We inspect SyteLine's full column set for each exported table, identify user-defined columns, and map them to Dolibarr extrafields with equivalent types (string, int, date, select, checkbox). SyteLine-specific enumerated lists require value-mapping tables; these are documented for customer review before migration commits.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Open AR/AP
Dolibarr ERP
Invoice and Bill (open items)
1:1SyteLine open receivables and payables map to Dolibarr Customer Invoices and Supplier Bills. Customer invoice header, line items, amounts, due dates, and payment terms migrate with status Open. SyteLine payment terms and invoice aging data map to Dolibarr's payment condition fields. Closed invoices migrate as paid. Partially applied credit memos migrate as Credit Notes linked to the parent invoice.
| Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial | Dolibarr ERP | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer | Third Party (Societe)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Vendor | Third Party (Supplier)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Item (Product) | Product1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Bill of Materials (BOM) | Product (as kit) or Projectlossy | Fully supported | |
| Job (Manufacturing Work Order) | Project1:many | Fully supported | |
| Sales Order | Order (Commande)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Purchase Order | Supplier Order1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Quote (CPQ) | Commercial Proposal (Propal)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Chart of Accounts | Chart of Accounts1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Employee | User (HR module)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Fields | Extrafieldslossy | Mapping required | |
| Open AR/AP | Invoice and Bill (open items)1:1 | 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.
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial gotchas
SyteLine and CloudSuite Industrial are the same product with different delivery models
SyteLine migration utility requires strict sequencing of master data before transactions
Field-level mapping differences between source and target schemas cause silent data truncation
API Gateway rate limits cap bulk migration throughput
Custom objects and custom fields are stored as extended columns in SyteLine's SQL schema
Dolibarr ERP gotchas
Foreign key constraint errors on cross-distribution database restore
SQL injection vulnerabilities in version 9.0.1
Custom fields stored as JSON in extraoptions require field-by-field deserialization
Decimal precision and rounding configuration affects price fields
No native iOS/Android app forces reliance on browser
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and deployment audit
We audit the source SyteLine or CloudSuite Industrial instance across deployment type (on-premise SQL or cloud API), SyteLine version, active modules (manufacturing, HR, project, CPQ), custom SQL columns, and multi-site configuration. We inventory all master and transactional tables, estimate record volumes per table, and identify SyteLine-specific constructs (Jobs, BOMs, multi-level routings, custom Mongoose forms). The discovery output is a written migration scope, a SyteLine SQL extraction plan or Infor OS API call plan, and a Dolibarr module activation checklist for the customer to complete before migration begins.
SQL extraction or API export from SyteLine
For on-premise SyteLine, we work with the customer's DBA or Infor consultant to run SQL SELECT queries against the SyteLine database, extracting relevant tables in referential order (codes and setup tables first, then customers, vendors, items, jobs, BOMs, orders, invoices). For CloudSuite Industrial cloud tenants, we use the Infor OS API Gateway with pagination and peak rate-limit handling (3,000-15,000 requests per minute depending on tier). Extended column custom fields are identified by inspecting all columns per table. The extracted data is staged in a migration database for analysis.
Dolibarr environment preparation and schema mapping
We activate the required Dolibarr modules (Third Parties, Products, Commercial, Projects, Invoicing, Accounting, HR if applicable), install any third-party modules (MRP for BOM support, accounting for COA), and design the field-level mapping for each SyteLine table. Custom fields from SyteLine's extended SQL columns are mapped to Dolibarr extrafields with appropriate type conversion. SyteLine-specific value encodings (Y/N, integer dates, flag values) are translated per the column-rule definition. The Dolibarr schema is deployed in a staging environment for preliminary import validation.
Staging migration and reconciliation
We run a full migration into the Dolibarr staging environment using production-like data volumes. The customer reconciles record counts (Customers in, Vendors in, Items in, Orders in, Jobs/Projects in), spot-checks 25-50 records against the SyteLine source, and validates that SyteLine's open/closed order status, payment terms, credit limits, and Job project linkages are correctly represented in Dolibarr. Any mapping corrections and data quality issues (duplicate records, missing foreign keys) are resolved here. BOM mapping strategy (kit products vs. Projects) is confirmed with the customer's operations team at this stage.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in sequenced phases: Codes and setup data first, then Third Parties (Customers and Vendors resolved before orders), then Products (Items with price and UOM data), then BOM and Job data (with the chosen mapping strategy applied), then Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Quotes, Invoices, Bills, and Chart of Accounts. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report. Owner and user references are resolved via email matching to Dolibarr User records provisioned before migration. The Infor OS API rate limits (if applicable) are respected with exponential backoff and batch chunking.
Cutover, validation, and automation rebuild handoff
We freeze SyteLine writes during cutover, run a final delta migration for records modified during the window, then enable Dolibarr as the system of record. We deliver a written inventory of every SyteLine custom form, workflow, and CPQ configuration with recommended Dolibarr equivalents for the customer's admin team to rebuild. We support a one-week hypercare window where we resolve reconciliation issues. We do not rebuild SyteLine Workflows or CPQ configurations inside the migration scope; those are separate engagements.
Platform deep dives
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Dolibarr ERP
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Moderate ERP migration. 1 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Moderate migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial and Dolibarr ERP.
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
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial: 3,000–15,000 API executions per minute depending on subscription tier (Essentials/Professional/Enterprise); daily limits of 250,000–6,250,000 executions per day.
Data volume sensitivity
Infor SyteLine / Infor CloudSuite Industrial 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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