HRMS migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between EPAY HCM and Crelate. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Crelate.
EPAY HCM
Source
Crelate
Destination
Compatibility
7 of 12
objects map 1:1 between EPAY HCM and Crelate.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
EPAY HCM and Crelate serve fundamentally different functions, which defines the scope of this migration. EPAY bundles recruiting, onboarding, HR, benefits, time tracking, payroll, and tax filing into a single all-in-one platform. Crelate is a recruiting-focused ATS and CRM with no payroll, benefits administration, time tracking, or tax filing capability. The migration scope is therefore narrow: we move EPAY's recruiting and ATS records — candidates, job orders, submissions, and associated notes — into Crelate's Contact, Company, and Job Order objects. We do not migrate payroll history, compensation records, benefits enrollments, garnishment orders, tax filing data, time and attendance logs, performance reviews, or ACA compliance records because Crelate has no fields or modules to receive them. For organizations that need to retain payroll and HR functions, we recommend a parallel migration to a dedicated HR platform and coordinate cutover timing to minimize operational gaps. EPAY's lack of a public API means all data extraction requires vendor-assisted export, which we coordinate early in the scoping phase to avoid timeline risk.
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 EPAY HCM 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.
EPAY HCM
Employee (recruiting-relevant fields)
Crelate
Contact
1:1EPAY Employee records contain personal info, employment history, department, location, and job title. Only a subset maps to Crelate Contact: name fields, email, phone, address, current title, and employment history dates. Fields specific to payroll (compensation, pay frequency, deduction codes), benefits (enrollment, coverage tier, carrier), tax (W-4, state withholding, garnishments), and time tracking (accruals, scheduling, job costing) have no Crelate equivalent and are not migrated. For internal mobility scenarios where EPAY employees become Crelate candidates, we map the employee record as a Contact with an additional custom field epay_employee_id__c for reference.
EPAY HCM
Job Application / Applicant
Crelate
Job Order
1:1EPAY's recruiting module tracks job postings, applicants, and application status. These map to Crelate Job Order records. The EPAY job title, department, location, and posting status become Crelate Job Order title, client (mapped from EPAY Company), and status. Application stage (applied, screened, interviewed, offered, hired, rejected) maps to Crelate's Submission pipeline stages. We preserve the original EPAY application date and any screening notes.
EPAY HCM
Candidate (from EPAY applicant pool)
Crelate
Contact
1:1EPAY's candidate pool and applicant records map to Crelate Contact. Resume content migrates as a parsed Crelate Resume record attached to the Contact via ContentDocumentLink. Skills, certifications, and work history from the EPAY applicant profile map to Crelate's standard Contact fields and any custom fields configured during scoping. Crelate's resume parsing (Standard at Business, Premium limits at Business Plus and Enterprise) processes incoming documents post-migration.
EPAY HCM
Company (EPAY organizational units)
Crelate
Company
1:1EPAY maintains organizational structure including company name, location, department, and cost center. These map to Crelate Company records. The EPAY company identifier becomes a custom field epay_company_id__c for reconciliation. If EPAY's organizational units represent hiring clients (for staffing firms), they map to Crelate Client records with Company as the parent.
EPAY HCM
Submission / Placement
Crelate
Submission
1:1EPAY's submission and placement tracking maps to Crelate Submission records attached to a Contact and a Job Order. The EPAY submission status, submission date, assigned recruiter, and placement outcome (if applicable) migrate as Crelate Submission fields. Placement fee and billing status from EPAY — relevant for staffing firms — map to custom Crelate fields or to the Crelate Business transaction tracking if the customer's Business Plus or Enterprise tier supports it.
EPAY HCM
Interview and evaluation records
Crelate
Activity / Note
1:1EPAY stores interview schedules, interviewer feedback, and evaluation scores. These migrate to Crelate Activity records (meetings and tasks) linked to the Contact and Job Order, with evaluation content stored as Notes or as custom Activity form responses. Interview scores from EPAY numeric rating systems map to custom Crelate fields or to Activity form custom fields configured during schema design.
EPAY HCM
Recruiter / Hiring Manager assignment
Crelate
User (Crelate recruiter)
1:1EPAY recruiter and hiring manager assignments on job postings and applications map to Crelate User records by email match. We resolve the OwnerId reference at migration time. Any EPAY recruiter without a matching Crelate User goes to a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before the production import.
EPAY HCM
Benefits Enrollment
Crelate
(no equivalent in Crelate)
lossyEPAY benefit enrollment records — plan names, coverage tiers, enrollment dates, dependent information, carrier details — have no Crelate equivalent. We export the enrollment data as a CSV reference file for the customer's HR team to use when re-enrolling employees in the destination HR platform (separate engagement). Benefits data does not load into Crelate.
EPAY HCM
Payroll Processing History
Crelate
(no equivalent in Crelate)
lossyEPAY payroll run records, earnings, deductions, taxes, net pay by pay period, pay stubs, and tax filing history have no Crelate equivalent. We export payroll history as a PDF and CSV reference file for the customer's payroll team and recommend retaining EPAY access or a payroll archive service for lookback. Active garnishment orders and deduction codes require manual verification in the destination HR platform before the first payroll run.
EPAY HCM
Time and Attendance Logs
Crelate
(no equivalent in Crelate)
lossyEPAY clock-in/clock-out data, overtime records, accrual balances, scheduling rules, and job costing assignments have no Crelate equivalent. We export attendance summary data as a CSV reference file for the destination HR or time-tracking platform. Accrual balances (PTO, sick, holiday) require manual entry or API import into the destination system by the customer's HR team.
EPAY HCM
Compensation Records
Crelate
(no equivalent in Crelate)
lossyEPAY pay rates, salary histories, pay frequency, bonuses, pay adjustments, and effective-dated compensation changes have no Crelate equivalent. We export the compensation timeline as a CSV reference file. The customer's HR team or the destination HR platform administrator enters compensation data during onboarding in the new system.
EPAY HCM
Performance Review Records
Crelate
(no equivalent in Crelate)
lossyEPAY performance review cycles, 360-degree feedback, journaling entries, and review status tracking have no Crelate equivalent. We export review history and scores as a CSV reference file. The destination HR platform handles performance management going forward. Review cycle configuration does not migrate.
| EPAY HCM | Crelate | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employee (recruiting-relevant fields) | Contact1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Job Application / Applicant | Job Order1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Candidate (from EPAY applicant pool) | Contact1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Company (EPAY organizational units) | Company1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Submission / Placement | Submission1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Interview and evaluation records | Activity / Note1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Recruiter / Hiring Manager assignment | User (Crelate recruiter)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Benefits Enrollment | (no equivalent in Crelate)lossy | Fully supported | |
| Payroll Processing History | (no equivalent in Crelate)lossy | Mapping required | |
| Time and Attendance Logs | (no equivalent in Crelate)lossy | Mapping required | |
| Compensation Records | (no equivalent in Crelate)lossy | Fully supported | |
| Performance Review Records | (no equivalent in Crelate)lossy | Mapping required |
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.
EPAY HCM gotchas
No public API means migration extraction is vendor-assisted
Historical payroll and tax filing data require special handling
Benefits carrier re-enrollment is often required at destination
Employee count directly affects billing — imports increase costs
Crelate gotchas
120 req/min API rate limit throttles bulk migrations
20 custom field per-entity cap forces data model decisions
15,000-record export ceiling on single operations
Sequences and automation workflows do not migrate
API key is a querystring parameter, not a header
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Scope definition and EPAY export request
We define the migration scope in writing with the customer, confirming which EPAY modules are in scope (recruiting candidates, job orders, applications, submissions, companies) and which are out of scope (payroll, benefits, compensation, time tracking, tax, performance, ACA). We immediately submit the EPAY vendor-assisted export request for the recruiting module field subset. We validate the record counts returned by EPAY against the customer's estimates before beginning transformation work. Any export delay is escalated to EPAY and reflected in the project timeline.
Crelate schema design and field mapping
We design the destination Crelate schema: configuring custom fields for EPAY identifiers (epay_candidate_id__c, epay_job_id__c, epay_company_id__c), mapping EPAY application stages to Crelate Submission pipeline stages, and configuring any custom Job Order or Contact fields the customer requires. If the customer's Crelate tier supports custom objects (Business Plus or Enterprise), we add any additional custom entities. Crelate field types must match source field types — we flag any mismatches (date fields mapping to text, numeric fields mapping to currency) during this phase.
EPAY recruiting data extraction and transformation
We receive the vendor-assisted EPAY export in the format EPAY provides (typically CSV or fixed-width). We transform the data into Crelate-compatible import format: parsing resume files for Crelate's Resume Toolbox attachment, splitting multi-value fields (skills, certifications) per Crelate's multi-select format, mapping EPAY job status to Crelate Job Order status, and applying the recruiter-to-Crelate-User lookup by email match. We generate a transformation log documenting every field-level mapping decision for customer review.
Test migration to Crelate sandbox
We run a full test migration into Crelate's sandbox or a test environment using production-like data volume. The customer's recruiting operations lead reviews the imported Contacts, Job Orders, and Submissions against the EPAY source records, spot-checks 25-50 records for data fidelity, and validates that resume attachments, status mappings, and recruiter assignments are correct. Any mapping corrections happen in this phase. We do not proceed to production migration without written sign-off from the customer's recruiting lead.
Production migration and cutover
We run the production migration in dependency order: Companies first (for Client and organizational mapping), then Job Orders (for submission parent reference), then Contacts (candidates and employees), then Submissions (with Contact and Job Order Lookups resolved), then Activity history (interview notes, evaluations as Notes or Activity records), and finally any resume attachments via Crelate's Resume Toolbox or ContentDocument API. We freeze EPAY recruiting writes during the cutover window, run a delta check for any records modified during migration, and enable Crelate as the recruiting system of record.
Out-of-scope data handoff and parallel migration coordination
We deliver a written inventory of all EPAY data that was not migrated to Crelate — payroll history export, benefits enrollment CSV, compensation timeline CSV, time and attendance summary, garnishment order list, and performance review history — with recommendations for which destination system each dataset should route to. If the customer has engaged a separate HR platform migration (Workday, ADP, Paylocity, or another), we coordinate cutover timing to align the recruiting cutover in Crelate with the HR cutover in the new payroll system, minimizing the window during which EPAY remains active for any function.
Platform deep dives
EPAY HCM
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Crelate
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard HRMS migration. 1 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Standard migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across EPAY HCM and Crelate.
Object compatibility
1 of 7 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
7-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
EPAY HCM: Not publicly documented..
Data volume sensitivity
EPAY HCM 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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