ERP migration

Migrate from Scopevisio to Dolibarr ERP

Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Scopevisio and Dolibarr ERP. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Dolibarr ERP.

Scopevisio logo

Scopevisio

Source

Dolibarr ERP

Destination

Dolibarr ERP logo

Compatibility

83%

10 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Scopevisio and Dolibarr ERP.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

2-5 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Scopevisio to Dolibarr is a downsize from an integrated German mid-market ERP to a lightweight open-source ERP/CRM, with the primary trade-off being the loss of GDPdU-compliant archive export and multi-company ledger management that are standard in Scopevisio's Finance module. Scopevisio's Customers and Vendors both map to Dolibarr's Third Party object using type flags; Scopevisio's Organisation structures map to Dolibarr's User and Project hierarchies. We handle Scopevisio's process-orientated document layer by exporting files in original formats and re-associating them in Dolibarr's ECM module. Invoices and Credit Notes carry line-item, tax, and payment metadata that we map to Dolibarr's invoice schema with open/paid status preserved. Time entries export by project and employee and land as Dolibarr Project Time Spent records. Workflows, automations, and GDPdU audit archives do not migrate; we deliver a written inventory of workflow configurations for the customer to rebuild in Dolibarr's native action/trigger model.

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

Scopevisio logo

Scopevisio

What's pushing teams away

  • Strictly online — no offline access to customer data or invoices when the user is disconnected, which frustrates mobile field staff and travelling consultants.
  • Lack of price transparency on the public website (only entry-level €14/user/month is published) makes total-cost comparison against competitors hard at evaluation time.
  • Limited public review volume on G2 and Capterra restricts independent peer benchmarking — a problem for procurement teams that want third-party validation.
  • Significant onboarding effort — reviewers describe Scopevisio as requiring proper training and consulting rather than a plug-and-play setup.
  • German-language-first interface and documentation create friction for English-speaking teams and multi-country roll-outs outside DACH.

Choosing

Dolibarr ERP logo

Dolibarr ERP

What's pulling them in

  • Free open-source core with no per-user license fee makes it the lowest-cost entry point for small teams needing ERP and CRM in one package.
  • Self-hosted deployment gives full data ownership and eliminates vendor lock-in, especially attractive to businesses with compliance requirements.
  • Modular architecture means teams enable only the features they use, keeping the interface uncluttered and reducing learning curve.
  • Fast installation with no technical knowledge required — one reviewer set up multiple businesses in minutes using their own hosting.
  • Active community forum and marketplace of third-party add-ons provide support and extension options without mandatory subscription costs.

Object mapping

How Scopevisio objects map to Dolibarr ERP

Each row shows how a Scopevisio 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.

Scopevisio

Customer

maps to

Dolibarr ERP

Third Party (Type: Customer)

1:1
Fully supported

Scopevisio Customer master records map to Dolibarr Third Party with the Customer checkbox enabled. Address, communication, and classification fields transfer 1:1. We handle Scopevisio's multi-address structures by designating the primary address and flagging secondary addresses in Dolibarr's dedicated address table. Tax identification numbers (Steuernummer/USt-IdNr) map to the Third Party fiscal identification fields. Classification codes from Scopevisio become Dolibarr categories that we create and assign during import.

Scopevisio

Vendor

maps to

Dolibarr ERP

Third Party (Type: Supplier)

1:1
Fully supported

Scopevisio Vendor records mirror Customer master data structure and map to Dolibarr Third Party with the Supplier checkbox enabled. Banking details (IBAN, BIC) migrate to Dolibarr's bank account fields on the Third Party. Payment terms from Scopevisio (e.g., 30 days, 60 days net) map to Dolibarr's payment term setup. We deduplicate against any existing Customer Third Parties by matching on tax ID or email domain.

Scopevisio

Chart of Accounts / G/L Account

maps to

Dolibarr ERP

Account

lossy
Fully supported

Scopevisio's hierarchical chart of accounts with German SKR types (SKR03, SKR04), tax codes, and cost-centre flags requires transformation. Dolibarr has no native SKR preset, so we map Scopevisio's account type (asset, liability, equity, revenue, expense) to Dolibarr's account categories and flag any German tax-relevant accounts with a custom label. Each company in a Scopevisio multi-company setup has its own chart; we extract each as a separate import set and note which accounts are inter-company vs per-entity.

Scopevisio

Invoice and Credit Note

maps to

Dolibarr ERP

Invoice / Supplier Invoice

1:1
Fully supported

Outgoing invoices from Scopevisio map to Dolibarr Customer Invoice; incoming invoices map to Dolibarr Supplier Invoice. Scopevisio stores invoice status and document status separately; we preserve both as Dolibarr's status and payment status fields. Line items carry product reference, quantity, unit price, VAT rate, and discount; these map to Dolibarr invoice lines with the product/service linked. Open invoices retain open status; paid invoices carry payment date and payment method from Scopevisio's payment ledger entries.

Scopevisio

Project

maps to

Dolibarr ERP

Project

1:1
Fully supported

Scopevisio Projects export with their hierarchy, billing method, and associated cost centres. We map project-stage statuses to Dolibarr Project status values and carry forward custom project fields as Dolibarr extra fields. If Scopevisio projects use hierarchical sub-project structures, Dolibarr's task/sub-task model within a Project accommodates the relationship. Projects without Scopevisio DMS documents are imported first; projects with document associations are queued until the document import phase completes.

Scopevisio

Time Entry

maps to

Dolibarr ERP

Project Time Spent

1:1
Fully supported

Scopevisio time entries associate project, employee, date, hours, and optionally billing rate. We map each entry to a Dolibarr Task under the corresponding Project with the time recorded in hours and the employee linked via User ID. Billable/non-billable flags from Scopevisio map to Dolibarr's billable task flag. If Scopevisio time entries reference a service or product for billing, we create the corresponding Product in Dolibarr and link the task for invoicing.

Scopevisio

Document (DMS/ECM)

maps to

Dolibarr ERP

ECM File

1:1
Fully supported

Scopevisio's DMS/ECM layer stores documents linked to business objects. We export files in original format (PDF, Office, images) and re-associate them in Dolibarr ECM with the correct object reference (Third Party, Project, Invoice, or Task). File naming conventions and Scopevisio folder structures become Dolibarr directory labels. Large files (over 10 MB) are chunked; files with non-standard characters in filenames are sanitized. We preserve Scopevisio's document metadata (created date, author) as file properties.

Scopevisio

Employee

maps to

Dolibarr ERP

User / HR Employee

1:1
Fully supported

Scopevisio HR module employees map to Dolibarr User records for system access and to the HR Employee module (if enabled) for personnel data. Organisational hierarchy from Scopevisio maps to Dolibarr User reporting lines (subordinate/manager relationships). PTO balances and effective-dated compensation records migrate as HR extra fields; we note that Dolibarr's HR module handles basic leave tracking and salary but is less feature-rich than Scopevisio's dedicated HCM module.

Scopevisio

Item / Product

maps to

Dolibarr ERP

Product / Service

1:1
Fully supported

Scopevisio Items export with pricing, unit of measure, stock-control flags, and optionally BOM structures. We map item codes to Dolibarr Product ref, descriptions to label, and pricing tiers to Dolibarr price lists. Stock-control flags activate Dolibarr's warehouse module; BOM structures note as a custom flag since Dolibarr's manufacturing module handles bill of materials separately. Any custom pricing tiers are written as separate price list rows in Dolibarr.

Scopevisio

Fixed Asset

maps to

Dolibarr ERP

Asset

1:1
Fully supported

Scopevisio fixed asset records carry acquisition cost, depreciation method, depreciation schedule, and location. These map to Dolibarr Asset records with the acquisition date, value, and depreciation method preserved. We flag any assets with partial depreciation as open assets and note their remaining book value. Some destinations handle asset depreciation differently; we document the Scopevisio depreciation schedule as a custom field for the customer's accountant to verify against German commercial code (HGB) requirements.

Scopevisio

Custom Field

maps to

Dolibarr ERP

Extra Field

lossy
Fully supported

Scopevisio custom fields on standard objects (Customer, Invoice, Project, Employee) map to Dolibarr Extra Fields with type translation: date fields become date, text fields become varchar, picklist fields become select. We discover all custom field definitions during scoping, map them to Dolibarr extrafield definitions, and note any type differences that require data transformation (e.g., multi-select picklists in Scopevisio become multi-checkbox extra fields in Dolibarr).

Scopevisio

Attachment

maps to

Dolibarr ERP

Document

1:1
Fully supported

File attachments on any Scopevisio object export as binary blobs paired with their parent record reference. We map each file to a Dolibarr document attached to the equivalent object (Third Party, Project, Invoice, or Task). Dolibarr's file-size limit per upload defaults to 8 MB; larger attachments are flagged for split or hosted-link replacement. Dolibarr's native document indexing and full-text search covers imported files after re-attachment.

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.

Scopevisio logo

Scopevisio gotchas

Medium

GDPdU export format requires specialist handling

Medium

Module-tier licensing affects what data is accessible

High

Multi-company setups require per-company export sequencing

Dolibarr ERP logo

Dolibarr ERP gotchas

High

Foreign key constraint errors on cross-distribution database restore

High

SQL injection vulnerabilities in version 9.0.1

Medium

Custom fields stored as JSON in extraoptions require field-by-field deserialization

Medium

Decimal precision and rounding configuration affects price fields

Low

No native iOS/Android app forces reliance on browser

Pair-specific challenges

  • GDPdU archive export has no Dolibarr equivalent

    Scopevisio's GDPdU (Grundsätze zum Datenzugriff und zur Prüfbarkeit digitaler Unterlagen) archive export bundles structured accounting data with document files in a format accepted by German tax authorities. Dolibarr has no native GDPdU export module. If the customer requires audit-proof German accounting archive for active tax periods, we flag GDPdU as out-of-scope for the migration and recommend a third-party GDPdU tool (such as DATEV-compatible export from Dolibarr) as a post-migration configuration step. We do unpack the GDPdU archive and separate structured records from embedded documents so that the accounting data migrates even if the archive format itself cannot transfer.

  • Multi-company setups require manual Dolibarr instance or add-on strategy

    Scopevisio's native multi-company tenant hosts multiple legal entities under one tenant, each with its own chart of accounts, customer ledger, and document store. Dolibarr has no built-in multi-company module. The customer must decide between three paths: running separate Dolibarr instances per entity (adding hosting cost), using the third-party Multi-Company module from the Dolibarr Market (paid add-on), or flattening the entity structure into a single Dolibarr instance with entity-flagged Third Parties and Projects. We document the per-company export scope and recommend the strategy before migration begins.

  • Scopevisio module-tier licensing determines accessible data

    Scopevisio sells three tiers: Organisation-only ($25.20/user/yr), Organisation + Finance ($42/user/yr), and Organisation + Finance + DMS/ECM ($71.40/user/yr). A customer on the Organisation-only tier has no invoice, document, or payroll data in their environment to export. We verify active modules during scoping by querying the export API response. If a customer expects invoice migration but only has Organisation licensed, we surface this gap early and scope to the licensed scope only, preventing false expectations about what data transfers.

  • Product selling prices self-correct after import without trigger

    A documented Dolibarr GitHub issue (#15770) describes a bug where product selling prices shift unexpectedly after bulk import from an external tool. The root cause involves the relationship between product price lists and customer-specific pricing rules in Dolibarr. We mitigate by importing products with a locked base price before attaching customer-specific price lists, running a post-import price audit against the Scopevisio export, and noting the known bug in our acceptance checklist so the customer verifies key product pricing manually.

  • German SKR account types require manual mapping

    Scopevisio uses German Standard Account Classes (SKR03, SKR04) with tax-relevant account codes mandated by German commercial law. Dolibarr's accounting module ships without German SKR presets; account types must be configured manually or imported from a community-contributed SKR mapping file. We map the account type hierarchy and flag any tax authority-relevant accounts with a German-language label so the customer's accountant can verify the mapping against their HGB requirements. This is a configuration step, not an automated transformation.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Scopevisio to Dolibarr ERP data migration

  1. Module and data scoping

    We audit the Scopevisio tenant to identify active modules (Organisation, Finance, DMS/ECM), licensed user count, and multi-company entity list. We extract a full object inventory from each licensed module: Third Party count (Customers + Vendors), invoice volume, project count, time entry count, document file count and total size, and fixed asset count. This scoping output defines the migration scope document, the per-company export plan for multi-company tenants, and the per-module pricing estimate. We verify that the customer has the Finance module licensed before scoping invoice migration.

  2. GDPdU archive and multi-company export strategy

    For customers with active tax audit periods requiring GDPdU archive continuity, we discuss the GDPdU limitation upfront and agree on a strategy: either migrate only the structured accounting records (without archive format) or plan a third-party DATEV-compatible export as a post-migration step. For multi-company tenants, we agree on the instance strategy (separate instances, Multi-Company add-on, or single-instance flatten) before designing the per-company export sequence. Each company exports its own chart of accounts, third parties, invoices, and documents in dependency order.

  3. Schema preparation in Dolibarr

    We configure the destination Dolibarr instance before any data loads. This includes activating required modules (Third Parties, Invoices, Projects, HR, ECM, Accounting), creating the account chart with Scopevisio account type mapping, setting up VAT rates and payment terms that match Scopevisio's German tax configuration, and defining any required Extra Fields to receive Scopevisio custom field data. Dolibarr runs on a staging URL first for validation before production cutover.

  4. Staging migration and reconciliation

    We run a full migration into the staging Dolibarr instance using production-like data volume. The customer's finance lead reconciles: third party count, invoice totals by status, project count, and document count against Scopevisio exports. We resolve any mapping issues (field type mismatches, missing required fields, character encoding problems) at this stage. The customer signs off the staging migration before production migration begins.

  5. Production migration in dependency order

    We run production migration in record-dependency order: Account chart first (Accounting module), then Third Parties (Customers and Vendors), then Products and Services, then Projects with their time entries, then Invoices and Credit Notes with payment status, then Documents re-associated to their parent objects, then Employees and Fixed Assets, then Custom Fields last. Multi-company exports run sequentially per entity to prevent inter-company record duplication. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins.

  6. Cutover, validation, and workflow rebuild handoff

    We freeze Scopevisio writes during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the window, then switch the customer's team to Dolibarr as the system of record. We deliver a written workflow inventory document describing Scopevisio's process-orientated workflow configurations for the customer's admin to rebuild in Dolibarr's action/trigger model. We support a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues. We do not rebuild Scopevisio workflows as Dolibarr workflows inside the migration scope; that is a separate engagement.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

Scopevisio logo

Scopevisio

Source

Strengths

  • Integrated suite covering Finance, CRM, HR, Payroll, and DMS without third-party add-ons
  • GDPdU-compliant archive export available for German accounting compliance
  • Multi-company and multi-currency support built into the core platform
  • German ISO/IEC 27001 certified cloud infrastructure with data residency in Germany
  • Modular pricing allows selective migration of specific business areas

Weaknesses

  • Limited public API documentation makes programmatic export discovery harder
  • Small review sample on G2 and Capterra makes competitive evaluation difficult
  • Process-orientated design means workflow configurations may not map directly to simpler destination CRMs
  • German-language-first interface and documentation can complicate English-speaking migration projects
Dolibarr ERP logo

Dolibarr ERP

Destination

Strengths

  • Free core software with AGPL license and no per-user mandatory fee for self-hosted deployments.
  • Modular architecture lets teams activate only needed features, keeping the interface focused and the database lean.
  • Self-hosted option provides full data sovereignty and avoids recurring SaaS subscription costs.
  • Built-in CSV/Excel import and export wizard with saved profiles simplifies recurring data operations.
  • Low-code Module Builder allows functional extensions without writing PHP code.

Weaknesses

  • No native documented REST API for programmatic bulk operations — all migrations depend on the import/export wizard or direct database access.
  • Reporting and analytics are weak without paid add-ons, and built-in charts are limited compared to modern SaaS platforms.
  • UI design is described as dated by multiple reviewers, with infrequent visual updates to the default theme.
  • Community-only support for self-hosted deployments means no SLA or guaranteed response time for issues.
  • Security vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-5314, CVE-2024-5315) in version 9.0.1 with no immediate patch reported.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Standard ERP migration. All 8 core objects map 1:1 between Scopevisio and Dolibarr ERP.

B

Overall complexity

Standard migration

Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Scopevisio and Dolibarr ERP.

  • Object compatibility

    A

    All 8 core objects map 1:1 between Scopevisio and Dolibarr ERP.

  • 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

    Scopevisio: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

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Most migrations land between two and five weeks for straightforward scopes under 5,000 third parties, 10,000 invoices, and no multi-company setup. Migrations with multi-company Scopevisio configurations, large document stores (over 20,000 files), fixed asset depreciation schedules, or GDPdU archive extraction requirements move to five to ten weeks because of per-company export sequencing, document re-association, and manual account mapping work.

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