HRMS migration

Migrate from Asanify to Crelate

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

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Asanify

Source

Crelate

Destination

Crelate logo

Compatibility

85%

11 of 13

objects map 1:1 between Asanify and Crelate.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

3-5 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Asanify and Crelate are fundamentally different platform types. Asanify is an all-in-one HRMS and payroll platform built for Indian statutory compliance, employee lifecycle management, and global EOR. Crelate is a recruiting ATS and CRM built for agency and corporate talent acquisition workflows. The migration is not a direct object swap because the data models do not share a common schema. We extract employee and contractor records from Asanify and reposition them as Contacts in Crelate, with employment fields (hire date, department, job title, salary) mapped to custom fields. Org structure becomes Company records with hierarchical parent-child relationships. Payroll runs, attendance logs, leave balances, and expense reimbursements have no equivalent in Crelate's recruiting model and are exported as supplemental CSV files. EOR records require explicit compliance review because the employer-of-record legal entity relationship does not transfer to a non-EOR destination without establishing a new legal entity in that country. Workflows, shift schedules, and expense approval automations do not migrate; we deliver a written inventory for the customer's admin to rebuild in Crelate or replace with a third-party HR tool.

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

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Asanify

What's pushing teams away

  • Minimum headcount requirements on lower tiers (20 for Essential, 10 for VIP) force smaller teams to either pay for headcount they do not use or upgrade unnecessarily.
  • Occasional performance lag during high-volume clock-out operations frustrates shift-based teams who rely on real-time attendance confirmation.
  • VIP-tier-only features—performance management, OKRs, shift scheduling, biometric device integration—require an expensive upgrade that mid-sized teams may not budget for.
  • International EOR pricing is custom and opaque, requiring a sales call for every country, making it difficult to compare total cost of global expansion upfront.
  • Help documentation and support response quality for complex API or integration questions varies, with some customers reporting gaps in technical detail.

Choosing

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Crelate

What's pulling them in

  • Affordable per-seat pricing with transparent tiers makes Crelate accessible for small-to-mid staffing firms evaluating ATS platforms for the first time.
  • Fast implementation reported by customers—some describe getting live in a matter of minutes with support team assistance.
  • Unified ATS + CRM in a single product eliminates the need to buy and synchronize separate recruiting and sales tools.
  • Flexible custom fields across Contacts, Companies, and Opportunities allow recruiting teams to capture firm-specific data without developer involvement.
  • Positive reviews highlight the product's intuitive interface and functional breadth for teams that need recruiting workflows without enterprise overhead.

Object mapping

How Asanify objects map to Crelate

Each row shows how a Asanify object lands in Crelate, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.

Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.

Asanify

Employee

maps to

Crelate

Contact

1:1
Fully supported

Asanify employee records map to Crelate Contact records. Core fields migrate directly: full name, personal email, phone, address, employment status, and job title. Employment start date and department migrate to custom Contact fields (cf_employment_start_date, cf_department, cf_job_title) that we configure in Crelate before import. We confirm the destination Crelate plan's custom field limit: Basic = 0 fields, Business = 10 fields, Enterprise = expanded. If the plan is Basic, salary and employment date fields cannot migrate into typed fields and are instead exported as a supplemental CSV with the employee export.

Asanify

Company

maps to

Crelate

Company

1:1
Fully supported

Asanify company and org structure records map to Crelate Company records. The primary company record migrates as a Crelate Company with the business legal name, address, and industry. Sub-departments from Asanify's org hierarchy migrate as child Company records with a parent_company relationship, preserving the reporting structure as a Company hierarchy rather than a flat list.

Asanify

Org Structure

maps to

Crelate

Company (hierarchical)

lossy
Fully supported

Asanify's org chart and department hierarchy are available in all plans and migrate as a Company hierarchy in Crelate. Each department in Asanify becomes a child Company record under the parent organization Company, with the department head's Contact record linked via a custom field. We export the full org tree as a parent-child mapping table for the customer to validate before Crelate import.

Asanify

Salary Revisions

maps to

Crelate

Contact (custom fields)

1:1
Fully supported

Asanify salary revision history maps to Crelate custom fields on the Contact record: cf_base_salary, cf_salary_currency, cf_last_revision_date, cf_salary_revision_reason. The current salary value is the primary import; historical revision log is stored as a JSON blob in a long-text custom field cf_salary_history_json. Crelate Basic plan cannot accommodate these fields; Business (10 fields) accommodates current salary only; Enterprise accommodates full history. We confirm the plan during scoping and scope revision history accordingly.

Asanify

Leave Balances

maps to

Crelate

Supplemental CSV export

1:1
Mapping required

Leave balances (current accrual state, carry-forward, entitlement) have no equivalent field type in Crelate's recruiting data model. We export the current leave balance snapshot per employee as a supplemental CSV file delivered alongside the Contact migration. The customer can use this file for HR reference, load it into a separate HRMS tool, or accept that leave entitlement is not tracked in Crelate. Leave policy configuration is not migrated.

Asanify

Payroll Runs and Payslips

maps to

Crelate

Supplemental CSV export

1:1
Fully supported

Payslip records, payroll runs, TDS deductions, PF contributions, ESIC, and professional tax withholding amounts have no Crelate equivalent and cannot migrate as operational records in a recruiting ATS. We export payslip summaries as a supplemental CSV keyed by employee email, including earnings, deductions, and net pay per pay period. The customer retains these records for payroll audit purposes; Crelate does not generate or store payslip documents.

Asanify

EOR Employee Assignments

maps to

Crelate

Contact (custom fields + flag)

lossy
Mapping required

Employees onboarded via Asanify's EOR service are legally employed by an Asanify-owned entity in each country, not by the customer directly. We flag every EOR Contact in Crelate with custom fields: cf_eor_employer_entity, cf_eor_country, cf_eor_legal_entity_name. We do not migrate EOR records to a non-EOR destination without explicit customer sign-off on a compliance review. If the customer continues using an EOR provider post-migration, the EOR flag on the Contact allows the new provider to identify the relationship. If the customer is moving to self-employment in that country, the customer must establish a local legal entity before updating the Contact's employment status.

Asanify

Contractor Records

maps to

Crelate

Contact

1:1
Mapping required

Asanify contractor records map to Crelate Contact records with contractor-specific custom fields: cf_contractor_type (1099 vs W-2), cf_contract_rate, cf_contract_currency, cf_contract_end_date, cf_contracting_entity. Multi-currency payout preferences migrate as a text field. The $18/contractor/month Asanify module data migrates as Contact records rather than a separate contractor object because Crelate does not have a native contractor record type separate from Contact.

Asanify

Attendance Records

maps to

Crelate

Contact Activity Note

1:1
Mapping required

Geo-tracked attendance logs have no native equivalent in Crelate. We export attendance records as a supplemental dataset keyed by employee email and date, including clock-in time, clock-out time, and geo-coordinates where captured. If the customer needs attendance data accessible within Crelate, we can store a summary note (total hours, attendance rate) on the Contact's activity timeline. Biometric device integration data (VIP-only) does not migrate.

Asanify

Performance Reviews

maps to

Crelate

Contact (custom fields, VIP tier only)

1:1
Mapping required

Performance management and 360-degree feedback are VIP-tier features in Asanify. If the source account is on VIP, we export review cycles, ratings, and free-text feedback as custom fields on the Crelate Contact: cf_last_review_date, cf_overall_rating, cf_review_notes. Review question responses that are free-text require a manual mapping decision during scoping. If the source is on Essential tier, no performance data exists and there is nothing to migrate.

Asanify

OKR Goals

maps to

Crelate

Contact (custom fields, VIP tier only)

1:1
Mapping required

OKR goal tracking is a VIP-tier feature. If the source account is on VIP, company-level and individual OKR records migrate as a JSON blob in a long-text Crelate Contact custom field cf_okr_json, with a summary (current quarter objective, progress percentage) in a short-text field cf_current_objective. Key results and historical OKR records are preserved in full fidelity in the JSON export for the customer's admin to reference or import into a dedicated OKR tool post-migration.

Asanify

KPI Trackers

maps to

Crelate

Contact (custom fields, VIP tier only)

1:1
Mapping required

KPI tracking is a VIP-tier feature tied to employee records. If the source is on VIP, KPI definitions and current values migrate as custom fields on the Crelate Contact: cf_kpi_definition, cf_kpi_current_value, cf_kpi_target_value, cf_kpi_unit. Historical KPI snapshots are not migrated as they require a separate extraction and have no equivalent activity model in Crelate's recruiting timeline.

Asanify

Employment Documents

maps to

Crelate

Contact (file attachment)

1:1
Mapping required

Employee documents (offer letters, contracts, ID scans) are stored in Asanify on VIP and Enterprise tiers. Document files migrate as file attachments on the corresponding Crelate Contact record via Crelate's file import mechanism. Document naming conventions and folder structure in Asanify map to Crelate's document type categories. We export documents that are UI-accessible; programmatically inaccessible or encrypted documents are flagged and excluded from the export with a manifest entry.

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.

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Asanify gotchas

High

Minimum headcount requirements vary by plan tier

Medium

Performance module and OKRs are VIP-only and not available on Essential

Low

Geo-tracking attendance data may be sparse or inconsistently captured

Medium

Pending expense reimbursements require explicit cutover handling

Medium

EOR records represent a separate employer-of-record entity

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Crelate gotchas

High

120 req/min API rate limit throttles bulk migrations

High

20 custom field per-entity cap forces data model decisions

Medium

15,000-record export ceiling on single operations

Medium

Sequences and automation workflows do not migrate

Low

API key is a querystring parameter, not a header

Pair-specific challenges

  • EOR records require explicit compliance review before migration

    Employees onboarded via Asanify's EOR service are legally employed by a separate Asanify entity in each country, not by the customer directly. Migrating EOR records to Crelate without a compliance review could sever the legal employment relationship or create data privacy conflicts with the EOR entity's obligations. We flag every EOR Contact during scoping, label the employer entity and country of legal employment as explicit custom fields, and do not proceed with EOR record migration until the customer confirms a compliance review has been completed. If the customer is moving to a new EOR provider post-migration, we coordinate the handoff so that the EOR relationship is not disrupted during cutover.

  • Performance data and OKRs only migrate from VIP-tier source accounts

    Performance management, 360-degree feedback, OKR goal tracking, and KPI trackers are gated behind Asanify's VIP tier at $199/person/month. If the source account is on Essential tier, no performance data exists and the migration scope is limited to employment and contractor records. We query the account's active plan tier during scoping and scope performance data only when the source plan includes the feature. Migrating into a Crelate plan that lacks custom fields (Basic tier) drops any typed performance fields that would otherwise migrate.

  • Geo-tracked attendance data has no Crelate equivalent

    Geo-tracked attendance is standard across all Asanify plans, but the actual coordinate data quality depends on employee mobile app interaction. Some records may have missing or approximate coordinates. Crelate has no native attendance, geo-tracking, or clock-in model. We export attendance records as a supplemental CSV keyed by employee email and date. The customer decides whether to backfill into a separate HRMS tool or accept partial location data. Biometric device integration records (VIP-only) do not migrate.

  • Crelate Basic plan cannot accommodate employment custom fields

    Crelate Basic tier does not support custom fields, which means salary, hire date, department, job title, and any EOR flags cannot be typed into Contact records on that plan. Business tier supports 10 custom fields (sufficient for salary, hire date, department, job title, employment type, and a few EOR flags). Enterprise tier supports expanded custom fields. We confirm the destination plan during scoping and flag any scenario where custom field capacity constrains the migration scope. If the customer selects Basic, employment data migrates as a supplemental CSV rather than typed fields.

  • Asanify has no public API requiring manual export coordination

    Asanify does not expose publicly documented API endpoints, rate limits, or developer documentation. Data export from Asanify requires either UI-based export (limited to the data visible per user permissions) or a coordinated export request through Asanify's support channel. We work with the customer's Asanify account to extract full data exports before migration begins. If the account is on a trial or low-tier plan with limited data access, exports may be partial. We present a data completeness report during the pre-migration review and note any gaps.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Asanify to Crelate data migration

  1. Discovery and scoping call

    We conduct a scoping call with the customer to audit the Asanify source account: plan tier (Essential, VIP, or Enterprise), total employee count, contractor count, EOR country list, presence of performance data, and whether payroll runs are active or closed for the current period. We confirm the destination Crelate plan tier and custom field capacity. The discovery output is a written migration scope document listing every object, record count, custom field requirement, and EOR flag requiring compliance sign-off before migration begins.

  2. Data export coordination

    Asanify has no public API. We coordinate data exports through the customer account: employee CSV export from the HRMS UI, contractor export from the contractor management module, org structure export, payroll summary export, and leave balance snapshot. If EOR records are present, we request the EOR employer entity and country list per employee from Asanify support. We validate export completeness against the scoping scope before proceeding to mapping.

  3. Crelate schema design and custom field configuration

    We design the destination Crelate schema based on the confirmed plan tier: custom fields for employment data (hire date, department, job title, employment type, salary, currency), EOR flags (employer entity, country, legal entity name), and contractor-specific fields (contract type, rate, currency, end date). If the plan is Basic, we design a supplemental CSV export structure instead of custom fields. Org structure maps to Company records with parent-child relationships. Sandbox environment is provisioned for test migration before any production record moves.

  4. Sandbox migration and reconciliation

    We run a full migration into a Crelate sandbox using production-equivalent data volumes. The customer reviews migrated Contact records, verifies employment custom fields are populated, spot-checks EOR flags on flagged contacts, and validates the Company hierarchy matches the Asanify org structure. Any mapping corrections, missing fields, or data quality issues surface here before production cutover. The customer sign-off on sandbox results gates the production migration start date.

  5. Production migration in record dependency order

    We execute production migration in record dependency order: Company records (org hierarchy) first, then Contact records with employment custom fields and EOR flags resolved, then contractor Contacts, then supplemental CSV exports (leave balances, payroll summaries, attendance logs, EOR compliance manifest) delivered as separate data files alongside the Crelate import. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report showing records in, records skipped, and records requiring manual resolution. Active payroll runs are flagged for the customer to close before final cutover.

  6. Cutover, validation, and automation rebuild handoff

    We freeze Asanify writes during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then deliver a written handoff package: supplemental CSV exports for payroll and leave data, EOR compliance manifest listing every EOR record and its legal employer entity, and a Workflow and Automation Rebuild Inventory documenting any Asanify workflows, shift schedules, or expense approval rules that require rebuild in Crelate or a third-party HR tool. We do not rebuild Asanify automations as Crelate workflows as part of standard migration scope.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Asanify

Source

Strengths

  • All-in-one HRMS covering payroll, attendance, performance, and OKRs on a single platform with a consistent UI.
  • India-specific statutory compliance (TDS, PF, ESIC, PT) fully automated within the payroll run.
  • Global EOR and contractor management with 200+ country coverage and multi-currency payout support.
  • 24/7 customer support and 4.8/5 ratings on ease of use and value for money across review platforms.
  • Slack integration, geo-tracked attendance, and AI-powered features (LMS, performance reviews) on higher tiers.

Weaknesses

  • Tier-gated features force upgrades for commonly needed capabilities like performance management and shift scheduling.
  • No publicly documented API endpoint, rate limits, or developer documentation in the research findings, limiting programmatic migration options.
  • Minimum headcount requirements on Essential and VIP tiers create pricing inflexibility for smaller organizations.
  • International EOR and contractor pricing requires direct sales engagement with no self-serve pricing calculator.
  • Performance occasional issues during peak attendance operations (clock-out lag) affect shift-based workflows.
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Crelate

Destination

Strengths

  • Unified ATS and CRM in a single platform reduces data synchronization overhead for recruiting teams.
  • Fast setup with guided implementation reported as a significant time saver for small teams.
  • Transparent per-seat pricing without surprise fees at the base tier.
  • Flexible custom field configuration across core objects without developer dependency.
  • Export capability supports up to 15,000 records per operation for Contacts, Companies, and Opportunities.

Weaknesses

  • API rate limit of 120 requests per minute restricts bulk migration throughput.
  • Custom field cap of 20 per entity requires field consolidation for complex recruiting schemas.
  • All advanced features (Activities, Activity Forms, Core Record Field customization) are tier-gated add-ons.
  • Customer service responsiveness receives consistent negative feedback in reviews.
  • Resume parsing quality trails competitors and generates support requests.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Standard HRMS migration. 1 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

B

Overall complexity

Standard migration

Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Asanify and Crelate.

  • Object compatibility

    B

    1 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

  • Field mapping clarity

    C

    Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.

  • Timeline complexity

    B

    7-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.

  • API constraints

    B

    Asanify: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

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Most migrations land between three and five weeks for accounts under 500 employees and 200 contractors with no EOR complications. Migrations with multiple EOR country assignments, large contractor rosters, active payroll runs requiring closure coordination, or a Crelate Enterprise destination for expanded custom field capacity move to eight to twelve weeks because of EOR compliance review cycles, sandbox validation, and the absence of a source API requiring manual export coordination.

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