HRMS migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Infor HCM and Zoho Recruit. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Zoho Recruit.
Infor HCM
Source
Zoho Recruit
Destination
Compatibility
10 of 12
objects map 1:1 between Infor HCM and Zoho Recruit.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Migrating from Infor HCM to Zoho Recruit is a scope-reduction migration, not a like-for-like platform swap. Infor HCM is an enterprise HCM suite storing employees, positions, compensation, benefits, and talent profiles across effective-dated rows. Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based ATS designed for candidate tracking, job posting, and interview scheduling. The overlap is limited to recruitment-relevant data: talent profiles, job requisitions, candidate skills, and hiring-team users. We extract that subset from Infor's Talent Management module and talent science layer, normalize it against Zoho Recruit's mandatory field requirements (Last Name is required on every candidate), and load it via CSV in dependency order. Compensation histories, benefits enrollments, performance reviews, time-off balances, and org-chart hierarchies have no equivalent in Zoho Recruit's ATS model and do not migrate. We deliver a written scope document identifying every Infor object with no Zoho Recruit destination so the customer's admin knows exactly what requires manual re-entry or a separate system. Workflows, approval chains, and recruitment marketing automations do not migrate as code; we inventory them for rebuild in Zoho Recruit's Blueprint and workflow rule builder post-migration.
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
Leaving
What's pushing teams away
Choosing
What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a Infor HCM object lands in Zoho Recruit, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Infor HCM
Employee / Talent Profile
Zoho Recruit
Candidate
1:1Infor HCM's employee records from the Talent Management module serve as the candidate source. We extract biographical fields (name, email, phone, address), employment eligibility status, and any recruiter-assigned ratings. The Infor talent profile's skills and certifications map to Zoho Recruit Candidate tags. Where Infor stores a skills taxonomy from Talent Science, we flatten it into tagged attributes and apply them as candidate tags during load. If the Infor record has no email address, we flag it for manual enrichment because Zoho Recruit requires a contact method on candidate records.
Infor HCM
Job Requisition / Position Opening
Zoho Recruit
Job Opening
1:1Infor HCM position management records with active headcount slots map to Zoho Recruit Job Opening records. We extract the position title, department, job description, hiring manager assignment, and requisition status. Infor's position approval chain (hierarchical approval workflow tied to ERP GL headcount budget) has no equivalent in Zoho Recruit and is excluded from migration; we document it as a manual workflow to rebuild in Zoho Recruit's Blueprint builder if needed.
Infor HCM
Hiring Team User
Zoho Recruit
User
1:1Infor HCM users with recruiter or hiring manager roles map to Zoho Recruit Users. We resolve by email match. Zoho Recruit requires at least one additional user to be present before CSV user import; we provision a temporary admin account if the destination is blank, then import all source users by email. Users with separate existing Zoho Recruit accounts must close those accounts before migration import proceeds per Zoho Recruit's migration tool documentation.
Infor HCM
Talent Science Skills / Certifications
Zoho Recruit
Candidate Tags
lossyInfor's Talent Science module stores skills, certifications, and credential data as tagged attributes linked to employee records. Zoho Recruit stores skills as Candidate tags (multi-select tagging). We extract the full skills taxonomy from Infor, deduplicate, and create matching tags in Zoho Recruit before candidate import. Skill taxonomy hierarchies in Infor (skill groups, proficiency levels) are flattened into a single tag string; any proficiency level metadata is stored in a Zoho Recruit custom field if the customer's plan supports it.
Infor HCM
Interview / Assessment Record
Zoho Recruit
Interview
1:1Infor Talent Management interview and assessment records map to Zoho Recruit Interview records. We extract the candidate reference, job opening reference, interviewer name, scheduled datetime, interview type, and feedback score. Interview disposition notes and rating values migrate to the Zoho Recruit Interview Feedback form as custom fields if the customer's Professional or Enterprise plan supports them.
Infor HCM
Candidate Application / Submission
Zoho Recruit
Candidate-Job Association
1:1Infor records tracking which candidate applied to which position map to the association between Zoho Recruit Candidate and Job Opening. We create the association by matching the Infor candidate reference and job opening reference. If Infor tracks application stage (applied, screening, shortlist, offer, rejected), we populate the corresponding Zoho Recruit pipeline stage on the association.
Infor HCM
User-Defined Fields (CMS470 / HCM Configurable Fields)
Zoho Recruit
Custom Fields
lossyInfor M3 and HCM support alphanumeric, numeric, date, and text user-defined fields attached to master data records. We extract every UDF referenced on employee and talent records and map them to Zoho Recruit custom fields by type. Zoho Recruit Standard edition allows 50 custom fields per module; Professional and Enterprise allow 300. If the customer has more than 50 UDFs on a given object, we prioritize migration of active or reporting-relevant fields and document the remainder for manual field creation post-migration. Custom fields are not available in Zoho Recruit Free edition.
Infor HCM
RAVE Recognition / Engagement Scores
Zoho Recruit
Custom Fields
1:1Infor HCM Enterprise includes RAVE recognition and Talent Science engagement analytics. These numeric scores and recognition badges have no native Zoho Recruit equivalent. We store them as numeric custom fields on the candidate record for reporting and reference. Engagement trend data (time-series analytics) does not migrate as a structured object; we document the latest score as a static value and flag the trend data for the customer's analytics team to reconstruct from Infor exports.
Infor HCM
Organizational Unit / Department
Zoho Recruit
Department
1:1Infor HCM organizational units and department hierarchies map to Zoho Recruit Departments. We extract the department name, cost center, and parent department for hierarchical reconstruction. Zoho Recruit Standard and above include department hierarchy support. If the customer's Infor deployment uses complex multi-level hierarchies with cost center associations, we document the full tree for manual rebuild in Zoho Recruit's department structure post-migration.
Infor HCM
Document (IDM)
Zoho Recruit
Attachment
1:1Employee documents (contracts, certifications, performance records) stored in Infor Document Management (IDM) are linked to candidate records in Zoho Recruit as attachments. The IDM export tool only exports the current version of each document, not version history. We extract current-version documents as files and attach them to the corresponding candidate record during migration. Any compliance requirement for document version history is flagged and handled via a supplemental IDM extraction documented separately.
Infor HCM
Compensation History
Zoho Recruit
None
1:1Infor HCM stores salary, bonus, and equity entries with effective dates in a compensation history table. Zoho Recruit's ATS model does not include a compensation or payroll object. This data does not migrate. We flag each compensation history record as excluded and document the full history table in the scope deliverable for the customer's finance and HR team to retain or re-enter manually if required.
Infor HCM
Benefits Enrollment
Zoho Recruit
None
1:1Benefit plans, enrollment elections, and coverage tiers stored in Infor HCM have no equivalent in Zoho Recruit's ATS data model. Benefits administration is not within Zoho Recruit's scope. This data does not migrate and is documented as excluded in the scope deliverable.
| Infor HCM | Zoho Recruit | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employee / Talent Profile | Candidate1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Job Requisition / Position Opening | Job Opening1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Hiring Team User | User1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Talent Science Skills / Certifications | Candidate Tagslossy | Fully supported | |
| Interview / Assessment Record | Interview1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Candidate Application / Submission | Candidate-Job Association1:1 | Fully supported | |
| User-Defined Fields (CMS470 / HCM Configurable Fields) | Custom Fieldslossy | Mapping required | |
| RAVE Recognition / Engagement Scores | Custom Fields1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Organizational Unit / Department | Department1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Document (IDM) | Attachment1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Compensation History | None1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Benefits Enrollment | None1:1 | 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.
Infor HCM gotchas
IDM document export excludes version history
Non-public API requires file-based extraction
Hidden implementation and consulting costs inflate the real TCO
Effective-dated history requires sequenced loading
Zoho Recruit gotchas
Daily API rate limits are tier-gated and per-user capped
User import hard cap of 2,000 records
Attachment folder hierarchy must be preserved exactly
Resume parsing quota varies by plan and resets daily
Custom fields unavailable in Free and Standard editions
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and scope definition
We audit the Infor HCM deployment to identify which modules are in scope for migration: Talent Management candidate records, job requisitions, interview data, talent profiles, and hiring team users. We confirm whether Infor IDM documents are required as candidate attachments. We review the Infor user-defined field inventory on each relevant object and compare against the destination Zoho Recruit edition's custom field limits (50 on Standard, 300 on Professional and Enterprise). We also review the Infor effective-dated history depth to scope the historical reconstruction effort. The discovery output is a written migration scope document listing every in-scope object, every excluded object with rationale, and the recommended Zoho Recruit edition for the customer's data volume.
File-based extraction from Infor
We coordinate with the customer's Infor administrator to schedule targeted file exports using Infor's IDM tools and application-level CSV or Excel exports. For on-premise Infor LN deployments, we may request a read-only database connection for direct extract, coordinated with the customer's IT team. We chunk large candidate populations into separate export batches to avoid timeouts. Each export run produces a structured CSV with column headers matching the Infor data dictionary. We validate row counts against Infor report totals before accepting the export as migration-ready.
Transformation and effective-date resolution
We transform Infor export files into Zoho Recruit-compatible CSV format. This includes collapsing effective-dated Infor rows into current-state candidate records (preserving the most recent effective date value as the current field), mapping Infor UDFs to Zoho Recruit custom fields (creating missing custom fields in the destination if the Professional or Enterprise plan is in use), applying the Last Name fallback ('not provided') for any record without a populated value, and deduplicating Infor skills and certifications into Zoho Recruit tag strings. We produce a transformation log documenting every field mapping decision and any record-level exceptions.
Sandbox migration and validation
We import the transformed CSV into a Zoho Recruit sandbox or a trial account to validate field mapping, verify that custom fields are created correctly, confirm that candidate-job associations are intact, and spot-check 25-50 records against the Infor source for accuracy. We also validate that no Zoho Recruit mandatory fields are left blank after transformation. The customer's HR or recruiting lead reviews the sandbox output and signs off before production migration begins.
User provisioning and user import
We extract distinct Infor users (recruiters, hiring managers, HR admins) by email and import them into Zoho Recruit as Users. Per Zoho Recruit's migration tool documentation, we ensure at least two users exist in the destination account before importing users via CSV, and we flag any Infor user who already has a separate Zoho Recruit account (those accounts must be closed before migration import can proceed). Owner assignments on candidate and job opening records are resolved against the imported user list during the production migration phase.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in Zoho Recruit's recommended order: Departments first, then Users, then Candidates, then Job Openings, then Candidate-Job associations, then Interview records, then attachments (IDM documents as candidate attachments). Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report. We apply a delta migration at cutover for any records modified in Infor during the migration window. We enable Zoho Recruit as the system of record once the delta reconciliation passes. We deliver the automation and workflow inventory document for the customer's admin to rebuild in Zoho Recruit's Blueprint and workflow rule builder.
Platform deep dives
Infor HCM
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Zoho Recruit
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 Infor HCM and Zoho Recruit.
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
Infor HCM: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
Infor 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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