ERP migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between SAVIO ERP and Dolibarr ERP. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Dolibarr ERP.
SAVIO ERP
Source
Dolibarr ERP
Destination
Compatibility
10 of 12
objects map 1:1 between SAVIO ERP and Dolibarr ERP.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
6-10 weeks
Overview
SAVIO ERP to Dolibarr is a migration from a niche, vendor-locked laminate manufacturing platform to an open-source, modular ERP-CRM suited for small and medium manufacturers. The primary technical challenge is that SAVIO ERP has no public API and no self-service export, requiring coordinated vendor-assisted database pulls or CSV extraction before any migration work begins. We extract Sales Enquiries, Quotations, Customers, Vendors, Inventory Items with size/thickness/finish/plate attributes, Production Requisitions with Press Planning and Dryer Planning sequences, and the Chart of Accounts. Dolibarr's modular architecture means we activate only the relevant modules at the destination—CRM for sales tracking, Products for inventory, Manufacturing for production orders, and Accounting for the ledger—leaving the laminate-specific production intelligence (press load, dryer load, D-lite tracking) as custom fields or lookup tables to be rebuilt post-migration. E-way bill compliance settings, brand-wise pricing, and S.E.-wise target reporting do not have native Dolibarr equivalents and are preserved as custom fields or documentation for the customer admin to configure after cutover.
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
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What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a SAVIO ERP 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.
SAVIO ERP
Sales Enquiries
Dolibarr ERP
Third-Party (Contact) + Lead
1:1SAVIO ERP Sales Enquiry records with followup dates, reminder cadence, and enquiry status map to Dolibarr Third-Party contacts (if the enquiry is a known customer or vendor) or Dolibarr Leads (if unqualified). We preserve the followup reminder as a custom date field on the Third-Party or Lead record and retain the enquiry status (Open, Quoted, Lost, Converted) as a custom picklist for reporting after cutover.
SAVIO ERP
Sales Quotations
Dolibarr ERP
Proposal (Commercial Proposal)
1:1SAVIO ERP Sales Quotations keyed by size, thickness, finish (plate), and brand map to Dolibarr Commercial Proposals. Per-unit pricing and brand-wise rates transform to Dolibarr line items with the product reference carrying the laminate size-thickness-finish code. We flag brand-wise pricing as a custom field on the Proposal for post-migration admin review.
SAVIO ERP
Customer and Vendor Parties
Dolibarr ERP
Third-Party (Customer) + Third-Party (Supplier)
1:1SAVIO ERP Party records (Customers and Vendors) with outstanding balances and SMS/Email alert preferences map to Dolibarr Third-Party entities tagged as Customer or Supplier. We preserve outstanding balance as a custom field since Dolibarr tracks receivables and payables through the Accounting module rather than at the party level. Contact-level alert preferences migrate as custom fields on the Third-Party.
SAVIO ERP
Inventory Items (Sheet Stock)
Dolibarr ERP
Product + Stock
1:1SAVIO ERP sheet inventory items with size, thickness, finish (plate), and brand attributes map to Dolibarr Product records. The laminate-specific properties (dimensions, thickness, finish type, plate type) are stored as custom fields on the Product since Dolibarr's standard product variant model handles simpler attribute sets. Bar-code references from SAVIO ERP become Dolibarr Barcode fields on the Product record. Per-sheet expense costing is preserved as a custom decimal field for admin to configure against the price calculation logic.
SAVIO ERP
Sales Order Booking
Dolibarr ERP
Order
1:1SAVIO ERP Sales Order records map to Dolibarr Orders linked to the corresponding Customer Third-Party. Order line items reference the mapped Product records. We preserve the original order number as a custom field for audit tracing since Dolibarr assigns its own order IDs.
SAVIO ERP
Production Requisition
Dolibarr ERP
Manufacturing Order
1:1SAVIO ERP Production Requisitions linked to Sales Orders map to Dolibarr Manufacturing Orders. The Production Requisition number and the linked Sales Order reference are preserved as custom fields on the Manufacturing Order. Press Planning and Dryer Planning sequence numbers and scheduling data migrate as custom fields since Dolibarr's Manufacturing module does not have native press/dryer scheduling concepts. Customers needing production scheduling depth configure Dolibarr's MRP module or a community production module post-migration.
SAVIO ERP
Production Load (D-lite wise)
Dolibarr ERP
Workstation Capacity or Custom Table
lossySAVIO ERP D-lite (daily production load) tracking by machine or production line maps to Dolibarr Workstation records with capacity hours as custom fields, or to a dedicated migration staging table if the destination does not have the community production module installed. We preserve daily load percentages and machine assignments as custom fields for the customer to configure in a production scheduling view post-migration.
SAVIO ERP
Sales Invoice and Challan
Dolibarr ERP
Invoice + Shipping Annotation
1:1SAVIO ERP GST-compliant sales invoices map to Dolibarr Invoices. E-way bill generation flags and the E-way bill reference number migrate as custom fields on the Invoice since Dolibarr's standard tax module does not generate E-way bills natively. Delivery challans map to Dolibarr Shipping Annotations linked to the corresponding Invoice. GST treatment and HSN/SAC codes preserve as custom fields on the Invoice.
SAVIO ERP
Chart of Accounts
Dolibarr ERP
Account (Accounting Module)
1:1The SAVIO ERP Accounts module ledger structure maps to Dolibarr's Accounting module chart of accounts. We map income and expense accounts to standard categories (Sales Revenue, Cost of Goods Sold, Direct Expenses, Indirect Expenses) and preserve original account codes as a custom field for audit. Account codes may require renumbering to match Dolibarr's accounting module structure.
SAVIO ERP
Employee / HR Records
Dolibarr ERP
HR Employee
1:1SAVIO ERP employee records with department assignments, basic compensation, and employee type map to Dolibarr HR Employee records. We migrate standard fields only: name, email, department, designation, and employment status. Pay components, statutory deductions, and attendance records require a community HR module or manual post-migration configuration beyond the base migration scope.
SAVIO ERP
Brand-wise Pricing Data
Dolibarr ERP
Custom Fields on Product
lossySAVIO ERP brand-wise pricing tiers (S.E.-wise Target vs Sales reports, brand-specific rate lists) are laminate-industry constructs with no native Dolibarr equivalent. We store brand, pricing tier, and rate as custom fields on the Product record and deliver a written reference sheet of all brand-specific pricing rules for the customer's admin to configure as price lists or customer-specific pricing rules in Dolibarr's commercial module.
SAVIO ERP
Visitor Management
Dolibarr ERP
Not Migrated
1:1SAVIO ERP Visitor Management (gate in-out tracking) is a departmental operations tool outside standard ERP scope. We do not migrate this object. If the customer requires visitor or contractor tracking in Dolibarr, a separate community module can be installed post-migration.
| SAVIO ERP | Dolibarr ERP | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales Enquiries | Third-Party (Contact) + Lead1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Sales Quotations | Proposal (Commercial Proposal)1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Customer and Vendor Parties | Third-Party (Customer) + Third-Party (Supplier)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Inventory Items (Sheet Stock) | Product + Stock1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Sales Order Booking | Order1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Production Requisition | Manufacturing Order1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Production Load (D-lite wise) | Workstation Capacity or Custom Tablelossy | Mapping required | |
| Sales Invoice and Challan | Invoice + Shipping Annotation1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Chart of Accounts | Account (Accounting Module)1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Employee / HR Records | HR Employee1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Brand-wise Pricing Data | Custom Fields on Productlossy | Fully supported | |
| Visitor Management | Not Migrated1:1 | 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.
SAVIO ERP gotchas
No public API or self-service export tool
Vendor-dependent data extraction adds migration cost and timeline risk
Industry-specific data structures require custom field mapping
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
Vendor extraction coordination and data audit
We begin by coordinating with SAVIO ERP's vendor to schedule read-only database access or CSV exports for each module (Enquiries, Quotations, Customers, Vendors, Items, Sales Orders, Production Requisitions, Invoices, Challans, Accounts, Employees). We audit the extracted data for completeness, duplicate records, and data quality issues. This step is the critical path; we build a detailed extraction schedule with the vendor and identify any modules that require custom CSV pulls versus standard reports. We also capture laminate-specific item property structures and E-way bill generation settings during this phase.
Dolibarr module selection and instance provisioning
We select and activate the Dolibarr modules required for the migration: CRM (for Leads and Third-Party contacts), Commercial (for Proposals and Orders), Products (for inventory and stock), Manufacturing (for production orders), Accounting (for the chart of accounts and invoices), and HR. We provision the Dolibarr instance either on DoliCloud (from €14/user/month) or on the customer's self-hosted server with PHP 8.1+ and MySQL 8. We create all custom fields required for laminate attributes, E-way bill references, D-lite tracking data, and brand-wise pricing before any data import begins.
Staging, transformation, and schema mapping
We build staging tables for the extracted SAVIO ERP data and transform each record against the Dolibarr schema. This includes splitting laminate item properties into custom fields, resolving party lookups for Customer and Vendor Third-Party records, mapping the Chart of Accounts to Dolibarr's accounting structure, and resolving Production Requisition-to-Manufacturing Order links. We flag any records that cannot be mapped directly (Visitor Management, cost-center-specific reporting, non-standard GST treatment) and add them to a written exception list for the customer.
Sandbox migration and reconciliation
We run a full migration into a Dolibarr staging environment using production-equivalent data volume. The customer's operations lead reconciles record counts (Third-Parties in, Products in, Orders in, Manufacturing Orders in, Invoices in, Accounting entries in) and spot-checks 25-50 records against the SAVIO ERP source. Any mapping corrections, custom field additions, or transformation rule changes are applied here before production migration begins. This step also validates that the Dolibarr modules are correctly licensed and that the chart of accounts balances after opening balances are entered.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order: Third-Parties (Customers and Vendors first, as they are referenced by Orders and Invoices), Products (with laminate custom fields populated), Proposals (linked to Third-Parties), Sales Orders (linked to Third-Parties and Products), Manufacturing Orders (linked to Sales Orders with press/dryer custom fields), Invoices and Challans (linked to Third-Parties and Orders with E-way bill fields), Accounting entries (linked to Third-Parties and Invoices), and Employees (last, as they have no transactional dependencies). Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins.
Cutover, validation, and production workflow handoff
We freeze writes in SAVIO ERP during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then declare Dolibarr as the system of record. We deliver the exception list (unmapped records, cost-center data requiring community module configuration, E-way bill integration specification) to the customer's admin team. We support a one-week hypercare window to resolve reconciliation issues. We do not configure Dolibarr workflows, manufacturing scheduling views, or E-way bill integrations inside the migration scope; these are post-migration configuration tasks documented in the handoff package.
Platform deep dives
SAVIO ERP
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Dolibarr ERP
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard ERP 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 SAVIO ERP 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
SAVIO ERP: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
SAVIO ERP 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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