HRMS migration

Migrate from Recooty to Crelate

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

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Recooty

Source

Crelate

Destination

Crelate logo

Compatibility

67%

8 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Recooty and Crelate.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

1-3 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Recooty organizes hiring around Jobs and Candidates with visual pipelines per role, while Crelate uses a combined ATS and CRM model with Contacts, Companies, and Opportunities as first-class objects. This structural difference is the central challenge of the migration. Jobs from Recooty map to Crelate's Job Posts, Candidates map to Contacts, and Recooty pipeline stages map to Crelate pipeline stages. Custom fields defined on Business and Enterprise plans in Recooty require explicit field mapping to Crelate's custom field infrastructure. We preserve candidate consent records and GDPR audit trail logs from Recooty's compliance layer and re-create them in Crelate's GDPR management tools. Job board publishing history and OAuth-connected integrations (Slack, calendar tools) do not migrate. We deliver a written inventory of any Recooty automations and sequence cadences for the customer's admin to rebuild post-migration.

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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Recooty

What's pushing teams away

  • Lower pricing tiers gate bulk resume importing behind paid plans, forcing teams with high application volumes to upgrade before they are ready.
  • AI credit consumption and application view caps on lower plans create unpredictable costs as hiring scales, with some users reporting confusion about what triggers overages.
  • Users report dual-platform confusion — Recooty Dashboard (ATS) and Recooty AI Dashboard (AI tools) use separate credentials and interfaces that do not cross-pollinate.
  • Trustpilot reviews show a 2.2/5 average with complaints about support responsiveness, particularly for users not on Business or Enterprise plans.
  • Feature parity across tiers is not clearly communicated — bulk CSV/ZIP import, calendar sync depth, and analytics sophistication vary significantly between plans.

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 Recooty objects map to Crelate

Each row shows how a Recooty 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.

Recooty

Job Posting

maps to

Crelate

Job Post

1:1
Fully supported

Recooty Jobs migrate to Crelate Job Posts. Each job carries title, description, location, department, employment type, and publishing status. We preserve job creation date and any internal job ID from Recooty as a custom field for reconciliation. Job board publishing targets (Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor) do not transfer because they are configured as OAuth connections in Recooty that cannot be replicated at Crelate without manual re-authentication.

Recooty

Candidate / Applicant

maps to

Crelate

Contact

1:1
Fully supported

Recooty Candidates map to Crelate Contacts. The candidate's full profile including name, email, phone, resume file, application date, and source channel migrates. Multiple applications from the same candidate (applying to different Recooty Jobs) collapse into a single Crelate Contact with multiple Job Post associations rather than duplicate records. We use email address as the dedupe key.

Recooty

Pipeline (Hiring Pipeline)

maps to

Crelate

Pipeline

lossy
Fully supported

Recooty pipeline stages (Applied, Screening, Interview, Offer, Hired by default, configurable per job) map to Crelate Pipeline stages. Crelate uses a separate Pipeline configuration object that we configure during migration. Default Crelate pipeline stages are matched to the Recooty stage names, and stage ordering is preserved. Probability percentages from Recooty carry over if configured.

Recooty

Application

maps to

Crelate

Job Application or Activity Form

1:1
Fully supported

Each Recooty application (a candidate applied to a specific job at a specific stage) maps to a Crelate Job Application record linked to the Contact and the Job Post. If the candidate has applied to multiple jobs, each application is a separate record under the same Contact. Application timestamp and pipeline stage at time of migration are preserved as fields on the Job Application.

Recooty

Interview Schedule

maps to

Crelate

Activity Form or Event

1:1
Fully supported

Recooty interview records (date, time, interview type, interviewer assignment, candidate ID) migrate to Crelate Activity Forms or Event records linked to the Contact. Crelate's Activity Forms support custom field mappings per question, matching the structured nature of Recooty interview records. Interviewer assignment resolves to Crelate Users by email match.

Recooty

Custom Field (Candidate-level)

maps to

Crelate

Custom Field on Contact

lossy
Fully supported

Recooty custom fields on candidate records (available on Business and Enterprise plans) map to Crelate Advanced Custom Fields on Contact. Crelate Business has a limit of 10 Advanced Custom Fields; we flag any Recooty custom field count exceeding this and work with the customer to consolidate or prioritize. Field data types are matched: Recooty text fields map to Crelate Text fields, date fields to Date fields, picklist fields to Picklist fields. Custom field labels and API names are preserved where possible.

Recooty

Custom Field (Job-level)

maps to

Crelate

Custom Field on Job Post

lossy
Fully supported

Recooty job-level custom fields migrate to Crelate custom fields on Job Post. The same field-type mapping rules apply. If the destination Crelate plan does not support the equivalent field count, we prioritize fields used in active filtering or reporting workflows.

Recooty

GDPR / Consent Record

maps to

Crelate

GDPR Compliance Record

1:1
Fully supported

Recooty GDPR consent records, retention policy definitions, and audit trail logs are extracted as structured account data and re-created in Crelate's GDPR Compliance Management module. Candidate consent status (given, withdrawn, pending) maps to Crelate's consent tracking fields. Any candidates whose consent may have lapsed during the migration window are flagged with a status requiring admin review before they appear in active recruiting workflows.

Recooty

Career Page (content)

maps to

Crelate

Not migratable

1:1
Fully supported

Recooty branded career pages built with the drag-and-drop builder on Growth and above are builder-state dependent and cannot be directly migrated. We preserve the job content and description text from Recooty Career Pages so that Crelate branded job portal content can be manually re-created. The microsite URL is not preserved.

Recooty

Owner / User

maps to

Crelate

User

1:1
Fully supported

Recooty Owners (hiring managers, recruiters) map to Crelate Users. We resolve by email match. Any Recooty Owner without a matching Crelate User is held in a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision before record import resumes.

Recooty

Note / Comment

maps to

Crelate

Note or Activity Form Entry

1:1
Fully supported

Recooty notes attached to candidate records migrate to Crelate Notes or Activity Form entries linked to the Contact. Rich text formatting is preserved where the source data format allows. Inline comments from hiring managers on pipeline stages migrate as Activity Form entries with a reference to the associated Job Application.

Recooty

Tag / Label

maps to

Crelate

Tag or Custom Field Value

lossy
Fully supported

Recooty tags on candidate and job records map to Crelate Tags or custom field values depending on usage. Tags used for candidate categorization migrate as Crelate Tags; tags used for structured classification migrate to the closest Crelate custom field equivalent. The customer chooses tag strategy during scoping.

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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Recooty gotchas

High

Tier-gated bulk import blocks high-volume migrations

Medium

GDPR audit trails require explicit cross-platform mapping

Medium

Job board posting history does not transfer between platforms

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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

  • Crelate's combined ATS-CRM model changes how candidate records are structured

    Recooty creates a separate candidate record per application per job, which means the same person applied twice to different roles appears as two records. Crelate collapses all applications into a single Contact record with multiple job associations. We run a dedupe by email before migration and collapse duplicate candidate records into one Contact, preserving all application history under that single record. If the customer relies on Recooty's per-application record structure for reporting, we flag this difference during scoping so reporting expectations can be adjusted before cutover.

  • Recooty custom fields on Starter and Growth plans do not exist

    Custom fields on candidate and job records are only available on Recooty Business and Enterprise plans. We audit the source account during discovery to confirm whether custom fields exist, and we adjust the migration scope accordingly. If the source account is on Growth, we skip custom field mapping entirely and focus on standard field migration. Crelate's Advanced Custom Fields also have plan limits (10 on Business, expandable on Business Plus), which we verify against the source field count during scoping.

  • Job board OAuth connections and publishing history do not transfer

    Recooty's 100+ job board integrations are configured as OAuth or API connections within the platform. When migrating from Recooty, board-level publishing history (which boards a job was published to, at what times, with what targeting) is not exportable as structured data. We preserve job content (title, description, requirements) but the customer must re-connect their job board accounts in Crelate and re-publish. Crelate offers direct Indeed, Dice, CareerBuilder, and Monster integrations on Business and above, which can be configured post-migration.

  • GDPR consent records require explicit re-creation at the destination

    Recooty's GDPR compliance layer stores candidate consent records, retention policy definitions, and audit trail logs as structured data tied to each candidate. Crelate's GDPR Compliance Management tools must receive these as new records, not references. We extract consent status, consent date, and consent channel from Recooty, map each to the corresponding Crelate GDPR field, and flag any candidates whose consent status may have lapsed during the migration window. The customer's admin reviews flagged candidates before the system goes live.

  • Crelate's per-user pricing requires user count planning before migration

    Crelate is priced per user per month ($99-$144 on Business and Business Plus), unlike Recooty which uses a per-plan model with seat counts per tier. We scope the number of active Recooty users who will need Crelate seats at migration cutover and factor this into the pricing and timeline. Any Recooty users who are inactive or will not use Crelate post-migration do not require a seat allocation, which can reduce the recurring cost.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Recooty to Crelate data migration

  1. Discovery and Recooty plan audit

    We audit the source Recooty account across plan tier (Starter, Growth, Business, Enterprise), active job count, candidate volume, pipeline stage definitions, custom field definitions (only present on Business and Enterprise), GDPR consent records, interview schedule volume, and attachment files. We also identify any users who will not transition to Crelate so that seat allocation can be planned. The discovery output is a written migration scope document with record counts per object, custom field inventory, and GDPR record count.

  2. Crelate plan selection and environment preparation

    We align the customer on a Crelate plan based on their Recooty usage: Business ($99-$119/user/mo) covers most migrations with up to 10 Advanced Custom Fields and standard GDPR tools; Business Plus ($144/user/mo) is recommended if the customer needs Automation & Sequencing, increased data storage, or expanded custom field limits. We provision a Crelate sandbox or trial environment for test migration validation before production cutover.

  3. Schema design and field mapping

    We design the destination Crelate schema including Pipeline stage configuration, custom field definitions (mapped to Recooty source fields), Job Post field mapping, and Contact field mapping. If Recooty custom fields exceed Crelate Business's 10-field limit, we prioritize fields used in active filtering or reporting. GDPR consent fields are configured in Crelate's GDPR Compliance Management module. Activity Forms are set up to match Recooty interview record structure.

  4. Test migration and reconciliation

    We run a full migration into the Crelate test environment using production-like data volume. The customer's recruiting lead reconciles record counts (Candidates in, Contacts in, Jobs in, Pipeline stages in), spot-checks 20-30 candidate records against Recooty source, and validates that pipeline stage names, application dates, and custom field values are correct. Mapping corrections are made in the test environment before any production migration begins.

  5. Owner and user provisioning

    We extract every distinct Recooty Owner referenced on candidate records and interview schedules and match by email against the Crelate destination's User table. Any Recooty Owner without a matching Crelate User goes to a reconciliation queue. The customer's admin provisions missing Crelate Users before production migration proceeds, as User references are required for interviewer assignment and activity ownership.

  6. Production migration in dependency order

    We run production migration in record-dependency order: Job Posts first (the container objects), then Contacts (with email dedupe applied), then Pipeline configurations, then Job Applications linked to Contacts and Job Posts, then Interview Schedules and Activity Forms, then Notes and Tags, then GDPR consent records. Custom fields are loaded after standard fields are validated. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. We run a final delta migration to capture any records modified during the cutover window.

  7. Cutover, validation, and automation handoff

    We freeze Recooty writes during final cutover, validate record counts in Crelate against the pre-migration audit, and enable Crelate as the system of record. We deliver a written inventory of any Recooty automation workflows and scheduling sequences for the customer's admin to rebuild in Crelate's workflow engine. We provide a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues raised by the recruiting team. We do not rebuild Recooty automations as Crelate workflows inside the migration scope.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Recooty

Source

Strengths

  • One-click publishing to 100+ job boards from a single job submission reduces manual multi-posting effort.
  • Free-forever Starter tier with full candidate management provides a genuine low-risk entry point for very small teams.
  • AI Bot Interviewer and AI Salary Estimator tools are included in most paid plans at no additional credit cost.
  • Visual drag-and-drop pipeline management with inline candidate comments keeps hiring teams aligned in one view.
  • GDPR compliance tools including data retention automation and audit logging are included across all paid plans.

Weaknesses

  • Tiered pricing gates bulk resume import, calendar sync depth, and analytics sophistication behind Business and Enterprise plans.
  • AI credits and application view caps create unpredictable cost increases as hiring volume grows, with opaque overage triggers.
  • Dual-product setup (Recooty Dashboard vs Recooty AI Dashboard) with separate credentials creates user confusion and onboarding friction.
  • Lower-tier plans offer limited customer support — Trustpilot reviews cite support responsiveness as a consistent complaint.
  • Free application credits visibility is reported as poor, with users surprised by what counts toward their plan limits.
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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 Recooty 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

    Recooty: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

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Most migrations land between one and three weeks for accounts under 5,000 candidates with no complex custom field structures. Migrations with Business-tier Recooty accounts carrying extensive custom fields, GDPR consent records across thousands of candidates, or candidate databases over 15,000 records move to three to five weeks because of field mapping complexity, bulk file attachment handling, and GDPR audit trail reconciliation. Crelate's own migration documentation cites one to three weeks for standard ATS-to-Crelate transfers, with complex migrations requiring additional scoping time.

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