Migrate your Jelly data
A flat-rate shared inbox for small teams that handles email collaboration without per-seat pricing or feature bloat. Teams migrating in bring conversations and shared addresses; teams migrating out face no documented export path.
In its favor
Why people choose Jelly
The signal that keeps Jelly on the shortlist. Sourced from G2, Capterra, and customer scoping calls.
Jelly charges a flat monthly rate with no per-seat fee, making it significantly cheaper than Front or Zendesk for growing teams that need the whole company in the inbox.
The feature set is intentionally narrow — shared email, team assignment, conversation threads — which eliminates the learning curve that bogs down Front and Missive for small teams.
Real human support from a small company is consistently praised in reviews, distinguishing Jelly from large helpdesk vendors with automated or tiered support models.
Annual billing offers 1–2 months free, reducing the effective cost for teams that commit ahead of time.
The Slack integration in Royal Jelly provides lightweight alerting without requiring agents to leave their existing communication tool.
Teams outgrow the narrow feature set and need multi-channel support, advanced automation rules, or a knowledge base that Jelly does not provide.
Royal Jelly's roadmap features (enhanced contacts, reporting, sent-mail sync) remain undelivered, pushing teams toward more mature platforms.
The lack of a documented API means teams with custom integration needs cannot connect Jelly to their existing tooling programmatically.
Small-team product risk: as a niche shared inbox, Jelly may lack the engineering investment to keep pace with security and compliance requirements.
Reasons to switch
Why people leave Jelly
The recurring reasons buyers give for replacing Jelly. Presented as facts, not knocks.
Platform scorecard
Strengths, weaknesses, and where Jelly 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
Jelly pricing overview
Jelly charges a flat monthly or annual rate per workspace, not per seat. The Jelly tier at $29/month allows up to 3 shared email addresses; Royal Jelly at $69/month removes the address cap and adds Slack integration and a roadmap of additional features.
Jelly
Tier 1 of 2
$29.00/month (~$25.83/month billed annually, 1 month free)
What's included
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What gets migrated
Jelly object support
Object-by-object support for Jelly migrations. Per-pair details surface during scoping.
Conversations
Mapping requiredConversations are the core object in Jelly — flat threads of inbound and outbound messages on a shared address. We map threads to the destination's equivalent (Tickets, Threads, Messages) and preserve the last-assigned owner state. No custom conversation fields exist, so no field mapping is required.
Shared Email Addresses
Fully supportedShared email addresses are the top-level container for conversations. The Jelly tier limits how many addresses are allowed; Royal Jelly lifts this to unlimited. We migrate the address itself and associate all related conversations to it at the destination.
Team Members
Mapping requiredJelly has no formal user directory API. Team members are identified by their email and conversation assignments. We map them to Users or Agents at the destination and flag any unresolvable email addresses for manual review.
Conversation Assignments
Mapping requiredA Jelly conversation can be assigned to a single team member at a time. We preserve the assignee field as a custom property at the destination when the target does not have native assignment on conversation objects.
Tags
Mapping requiredJelly supports tagging conversations but does not expose tags via any documented API. We extract tags from IMAP headers or customer-supplied exports where available, otherwise tags are noted as a gap in the migration scope.
Slack Integration (Royal Jelly)
Not in this platformRoyal Jelly's Slack integration notifies channels of new conversations. This is a live notification bridge, not stored data, and has no exportable schema. We do not migrate Slack integration configuration.
Enhanced Contacts (Royal Jelly, roadmap)
Not in this platformEnhanced Contacts is listed as a forthcoming feature in Royal Jelly. As it is not yet shipped, we do not support it as a migration target. It may land as a simple contact card with no custom fields.
Stats and Reporting (Royal Jelly, roadmap)
Not in this platformStats and reporting are listed as forthcoming in Royal Jelly. Aggregated analytics are not a migratable data object and are excluded from scope.
Attachments
Not in this platformJelly surfaces email attachments inline within conversations. The platform does not expose an attachment storage API, and we have not found a documented attachment export path in any published endpoint or customer-accessible feature.
| Object | Support | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Conversations | Mapping required | Conversations are the core object in Jelly — flat threads of inbound and outbound messages on a shared address. We map threads to the destination's equivalent (Tickets, Threads, Messages) and preserve the last-assigned owner state. No custom conversation fields exist, so no field mapping is required. |
| Shared Email Addresses | Fully supported | Shared email addresses are the top-level container for conversations. The Jelly tier limits how many addresses are allowed; Royal Jelly lifts this to unlimited. We migrate the address itself and associate all related conversations to it at the destination. |
| Team Members | Mapping required | Jelly has no formal user directory API. Team members are identified by their email and conversation assignments. We map them to Users or Agents at the destination and flag any unresolvable email addresses for manual review. |
| Conversation Assignments | Mapping required | A Jelly conversation can be assigned to a single team member at a time. We preserve the assignee field as a custom property at the destination when the target does not have native assignment on conversation objects. |
| Tags | Mapping required | Jelly supports tagging conversations but does not expose tags via any documented API. We extract tags from IMAP headers or customer-supplied exports where available, otherwise tags are noted as a gap in the migration scope. |
| Slack Integration (Royal Jelly) | Not in this platform | Royal Jelly's Slack integration notifies channels of new conversations. This is a live notification bridge, not stored data, and has no exportable schema. We do not migrate Slack integration configuration. |
| Enhanced Contacts (Royal Jelly, roadmap) | Not in this platform | Enhanced Contacts is listed as a forthcoming feature in Royal Jelly. As it is not yet shipped, we do not support it as a migration target. It may land as a simple contact card with no custom fields. |
| Stats and Reporting (Royal Jelly, roadmap) | Not in this platform | Stats and reporting are listed as forthcoming in Royal Jelly. Aggregated analytics are not a migratable data object and are excluded from scope. |
| Attachments | Not in this platform | Jelly surfaces email attachments inline within conversations. The platform does not expose an attachment storage API, and we have not found a documented attachment export path in any published endpoint or customer-accessible feature. |
Gotchas
What to watch for in Jelly migrations
Issues we've hit on past Jelly migrations, tagged by severity. FlitStack AI handles every one — surfacing them up front because buyer engineering teams want to know.
No documented API for data export
Per-address conversation cap on Jelly tier
Royal Jelly roadmap features are not shippable migration targets
Attachment export not accessible via API
| Severity | Issue |
|---|---|
| High | No documented API for data export |
| Medium | Per-address conversation cap on Jelly tier |
| Medium | Royal Jelly roadmap features are not shippable migration targets |
| High | Attachment export not accessible via API |
Leaving Jelly?
Where Jelly customers move next
7 destinations Jelly can migrate to.
How a Jelly migration works
Four steps, Jelly-specific
Connect
Not publicly documented into Jelly. Scopes limited to read-only on the data we move.
Map
We translate Jelly-specific structures (custom fields, objects, value lists) to the destination's model.
Sample
Test with a 50–200 record subset to validate Jelly quirks before production.
Migrate
Full migration with Jelly rate-limit handling. Rollback available throughout.
FAQ
Jelly migration FAQ
Answers to the questions buyers ask most during Jelly migration scoping. Not seeing yours? Book a call.
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