HRMS migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Sage HRMS and Recruit CRM & ATS. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Recruit CRM & ATS.
Sage HRMS
Source
Recruit CRM & ATS
Destination
Compatibility
11 of 12
objects map 1:1 between Sage HRMS and Recruit CRM & ATS.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Sage HRMS and Recruit CRM serve different primary functions: Sage HRMS is an on-premise HRMS centered on payroll processing, benefits administration, and tax compliance for US and Canadian businesses, while Recruit CRM is a cloud-native ATS and CRM built for recruitment and executive search agencies. The migration is therefore selective — we extract recruitment-relevant records from Sage HRMS (active applicants, job requisitions, candidate profiles, organizational structure) and land them in Recruit CRM's Candidate, Job, Client, and Company objects. Sage HRMS has no documented public API, so all extraction relies on its built-in CSV, Excel, or ODBC export workflow, which we pre-configure before extraction day. We do not migrate payroll history, benefit plan definitions, tax code configurations, time-off accrual rules, or ESS self-service setups; these have no functional equivalent in Recruit CRM's data model. We deliver a written inventory of Sage HRMS automations and HR workflows requiring manual rebuild in Recruit CRM's settings.
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 Sage HRMS object lands in Recruit CRM & ATS, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Sage HRMS
Employee (ATS Module)
Recruit CRM & ATS
Candidate
1:1Sage HRMS stores applicant and candidate records within its ATS module when active. We extract active and recently closed candidate profiles (name, email, phone, address, resume content, application status, source, and notes) and map them to Recruit CRM Candidate records. Candidate status in Sage HRMS maps to Recruit CRM's pipeline stage. If Sage HRMS stores resumes as file attachments, we export them as a file bundle keyed by candidate ID and deliver them alongside the migration for manual re-upload into Recruit CRM's document attach feature.
Sage HRMS
Job Requisition
Recruit CRM & ATS
Job
1:1Open and recently closed job requisitions from Sage HRMS map to Recruit CRM Job records. We extract job title, department assignment, position type (full-time, contract, part-time), location, description, requirements, and hiring manager. The Sage HRMS job status maps to Recruit CRM's job opening status (Open, On Hold, Filled, Cancelled). Department assignment from Sage HRMS resolves to Recruit CRM's organizational hierarchy after we map the Department object.
Sage HRMS
Department
Recruit CRM & ATS
Department / Team
1:1Sage HRMS organizational units (departments with cost-center assignments) are extracted as a full department tree. These land in Recruit CRM as Departments or Teams linked to Job records as the hiring team owner. We preserve cost-center values as custom fields in Recruit CRM where supported, noting that Recruit CRM does not have a native payroll cost-allocation model.
Sage HRMS
Position
Recruit CRM & ATS
Job Title / Role
1:1Sage HRMS positions define job titles, grade levels, and pay ranges. We extract position records alongside employee assignments and map them to Recruit CRM Job Title or Role fields on the Candidate and Job objects. Pay range data from Sage HRMS (min/max salary band per position) migrates as custom fields in Recruit CRM, since Recruit CRM's salary fields are optional and not enforced.
Sage HRMS
Employee (Non-ATS)
Recruit CRM & ATS
Contact (Client or Candidate)
1:manySage HRMS employee records that have no ATS application history do not map directly to Recruit CRM Candidates. We segment employees by whether they appear in the ATS module: employees with application history become Recruit CRM Candidates, and employees without become either Recruit CRM Contacts (if the organization uses Recruit CRM for client relationship tracking) or are excluded from the migration. This split is determined during scoping based on whether the customer uses Recruit CRM's CRM layer.
Sage HRMS
Pay Groups
Recruit CRM & ATS
—
1:1Sage HRMS Pay Groups (defining pay frequency, deduction priorities, and tax jurisdiction) have no functional equivalent in Recruit CRM. We extract Pay Group configurations as a reference document delivered to the customer's HR admin for informational purposes. Recruit CRM does not process payroll or deductions.
Sage HRMS
Payroll History
Recruit CRM & ATS
—
1:1Historical earnings, deductions, and tax withholdings stored across Sage HRMS fiscal-year tables do not migrate. Recruit CRM is an ATS and recruitment CRM, not a payroll system, and has no payroll history object, pay stub record, or tax withholding record type. We extract the last 2-3 fiscal years of payroll summary as a PDF reference file for the customer's HR team but do not attempt to land it in Recruit CRM.
Sage HRMS
Benefit Plans
Recruit CRM & ATS
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1:1Benefit enrollments, carrier assignments, and coverage tiers from Sage HRMS do not migrate to Recruit CRM. Recruit CRM does not include a benefits administration module. We extract plan definitions and active enrollments as a CSV reference document for the customer's HR admin to maintain outside the ATS.
Sage HRMS
Time Off Balances
Recruit CRM & ATS
—
1:1Accrual rules and current time-off balances per employee in Sage HRMS do not have an equivalent in Recruit CRM. We extract balances as of the migration date as a reference document. Recruit CRM's optional Onboarding module can track new-hire document completion but does not replace a time-off management system.
Sage HRMS
Tax Codes
Recruit CRM & ATS
—
1:1Federal, state, and local tax codes and rates from Sage HRMS do not migrate. Recruit CRM does not process payroll tax calculations. We extract the tax code table as a reference CSV for the customer's HR admin if they transition to a separate payroll platform post-migration.
Sage HRMS
Employee Documents
Recruit CRM & ATS
Candidate Documents
1:1Documents such as I-9s, W-4s, offer letters, and signed agreements stored as file attachments in Sage HRMS are exported as a file bundle keyed by employee ID and candidate ID. We deliver this bundle alongside the data migration for manual re-upload into Recruit CRM's candidate document attach feature. Recruit CRM supports PDF and document uploads per candidate record but does not have an automated document ingestion endpoint.
Sage HRMS
Performance Reviews
Recruit CRM & ATS
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1:1Review templates, ratings, and narrative responses stored in Sage HRMS do not migrate to Recruit CRM. Recruit CRM's Onboarding module tracks new-hire onboarding tasks but does not include a performance review module. We inventory available review data as a reference document for the customer's HR team.
| Sage HRMS | Recruit CRM & ATS | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employee (ATS Module) | Candidate1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Job Requisition | Job1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Department | Department / Team1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Position | Job Title / Role1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Employee (Non-ATS) | Contact (Client or Candidate)1:many | Fully supported | |
| Pay Groups | —1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Payroll History | —1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Benefit Plans | —1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Time Off Balances | —1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Tax Codes | —1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Employee Documents | Candidate Documents1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Performance Reviews | —1:1 | 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.
Sage HRMS gotchas
Database restore between versions drops permissions
No documented public API for bulk data ingestion
ESS custom field columns break on version upgrade
Export requires pre-configured file paths and file types
Pricing is not publicly disclosed by Sage
Recruit CRM & ATS gotchas
API rate limits are license-scaled and can throttle bulk migration
Custom field schemas vary per organization and require field-level mapping
Files and email attachments require separate extraction and re-upload
Email sequences and automation logic do not transfer between platforms
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and Sage HRMS ATS module audit
We audit the Sage HRMS instance to determine whether the ATS module (Cyber Recruiter or HR Actions) is active and licensed, what candidate record volume exists, and which job requisitions are open versus closed. We also inventory all non-ATS objects (employees, departments, positions, documents, payroll history) to produce a complete data inventory. This output determines the migration scope and confirms which objects map to Recruit CRM records versus reference-file exports.
Export path pre-configuration and file format selection
Sage HRMS requires pre-configured target file paths and empty destination files before any export can run. We create all required CSV and Excel export targets during the build phase, configure ODBC connection strings if ODBC extraction is selected for higher throughput, and verify that the Sage HRMS export dialog can reach each path. We also extract the department tree and position hierarchy as separate reference files at this stage.
Recruit CRM sandbox configuration and candidate deduplication strategy
We configure a Recruit CRM sandbox or trial environment to match the customer's target Recruit CRM plan tier (Pro, Business, or Enterprise). We map all Sage HRMS candidate fields to Recruit CRM Candidate fields, configure the job pipeline stages to match the customer's existing Sage HRMS requisition statuses, and establish the deduplication strategy (name-and-email fuzzy matching) before any candidate records are loaded.
File-based extraction and data transformation
We run the Sage HRMS export for candidate records, job requisitions, departments, and positions using the pre-configured file paths. For each export, we transform the Sage HRMS field names and data types to match the Recruit CRM target schema, apply the deduplication pass for candidate records, resolve department and position lookups to their Recruit CRM equivalents, and package the output as a CSV or spreadsheet ready for Recruit CRM import.
Candidate and job import with reconciliation reporting
We import candidate records and job records into Recruit CRM using its native bulk import interface. For each phase (candidates first, then jobs), we emit a row-count reconciliation report comparing records loaded to records in the source export. We verify that duplicate detection caught the expected overlap and that no records were silently dropped due to field-length constraints or required-field gaps in Recruit CRM.
Document bundle delivery and automation rebuild handoff
We deliver the Sage HRMS employee document bundle (keyed by employee and candidate ID) alongside the migration for manual re-upload into Recruit CRM's candidate document attach feature. We deliver the written inventory of Sage HRMS HR workflows, approval chains, and ESS field-visibility rules to the customer's admin team, with a Recruit CRM configuration recommendation for each. We do not rebuild Sage HRMS workflows inside Recruit CRM as part of the migration scope.
Platform deep dives
Sage HRMS
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Recruit CRM & ATS
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 Sage HRMS and Recruit CRM & ATS.
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
Sage HRMS: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
Sage HRMS 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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