HRMS migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Zimyo and Crelate. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Crelate.
Zimyo
Source
Crelate
Destination
Compatibility
12 of 15
objects map 1:1 between Zimyo and Crelate.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Zimyo and Crelate serve different HR workflows. Zimyo is an all-in-one HRMS built in India that consolidates payroll, attendance, performance, and talent acquisition into a single platform for mid-market and enterprise teams in APAC. Crelate is a purpose-built applicant tracking and talent recruiting platform serving over 1,500 staffing agencies and in-house recruiting teams, with AI-powered candidate matching (Crelate Co-Pilot), executive search tooling, and a dedicated ATS data model built around People, Jobs, Applications, and Activity records. The migration from Zimyo to Crelate is primarily an ATS upgrade: talent acquisition data moves cleanly (Candidates to People, Applications to Applications, Job Postings to Jobs, Scorecards preserved), while payroll history, leave balances, attendance logs, performance reviews, and benefits enrollments have no native Crelate equivalent and require either custom field configuration or a parallel HRMS for ongoing operations. We handle the talent data migration end-to-end, flag unsupported HRMS modules during scoping, and deliver a written inventory of Zimyo workflows and approval rules that require manual rebuild in Crelate or in whichever system handles payroll 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 Zimyo 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.
Zimyo
Talent Acquisition: Candidate
Crelate
People
1:1Zimyo candidate profiles (personal details, contact information, work history, education, skills, source attribution) map to Crelate People records. The candidate's email address serves as the dedupe key during import. Any candidate rating or ranking scores from Zimyo migrate to custom fields on the Crelate People record. If the candidate has been placed or is currently in an active application, we preserve the stage and the linked job posting reference.
Zimyo
Talent Acquisition: Application
Crelate
Application
1:1Zimyo application records map directly to Crelate Application records. The application status (Applied, Screening, Interview, Offer, Hired, Rejected) maps to Crelate's application stage values. Application submission timestamp migrates as the Created Date on the Crelate Application. Any application-specific notes or rejection reasons from Zimyo migrate as text fields on the Application record.
Zimyo
Talent Acquisition: Job Posting
Crelate
Job
1:1Zimyo job postings (title, description, requirements, location, employment type, department assignment) map to Crelate Job records. The job status (Draft, Active, Paused, Closed) migrates to Crelate Job status. Salary range and compensation details from Zimyo map to custom compensation fields in Crelate. We align any Zimyo department or cost center assignments with Crelate's Job Categories or Tags configuration.
Zimyo
Talent Acquisition: Interview Schedule
Crelate
Activity + Event
1:1Zimyo interview schedules (interview type, date and time, interviewer, location or meeting link, candidate reference, job reference) map to Crelate Activity records of type Interview or Event. We preserve the interviewer assignment by resolving Zimyo interviewer names or emails against Crelate User records. Calendar or video meeting link metadata migrates as Activity description or custom URL fields.
Zimyo
Talent Acquisition: Scorecard
Crelate
Scorecard
1:1Zimyo interview scorecards (rating criteria, scores, interviewer feedback, recommendation) map to Crelate Scorecard records linked to the relevant Application and Activity. Competency rating scales vary by organization and require value mapping during scoping to ensure consistent scale application across migrated and future scorecards. Any overall recommendation (Strong Hire, Hire, No Hire, Strong No Hire) migrates as the Crelate Scorecard recommendation field.
Zimyo
Talent Acquisition: Offer Letter
Crelate
Document + Activity
1:1Zimyo offer letter documents (PDF or file blob with offer terms, compensation, start date, candidate reference) migrate as Crelate Document records attached to the relevant Application and Person. We preserve the original filename, upload timestamp, and file integrity checksum. Offer terms (salary, equity, start date, contingencies) migrate as custom fields on the Crelate Application or as structured Activity notes if no dedicated offer object exists in the customer's Crelate configuration.
Zimyo
Talent Acquisition: Hiring Pipeline Stages
Crelate
Pipeline + Stage Configuration
lossyZimyo's configurable hiring pipeline stages (typically: Applied, Screening, Interview, Assessment, Offer, Onboarding) map to Crelate Pipeline stages. We align the stage order and rename stage labels to match Crelate's terminology during environment setup. If Zimyo uses multiple pipelines per department or role type, each maps to a separate Crelate Pipeline with its own stage sequence.
Zimyo
Employee (HR core)
Crelate
People (with ATS scope)
1:1Zimyo Employee records do not have a native Crelate equivalent because Crelate is an ATS, not an HRMS. Employee records that overlap with recruiting candidates (hired candidates who now appear as employees) can be stored as Crelate People records with a custom 'Employee Status' flag. Payroll, compensation history, bank details, emergency contacts, and benefits enrollments do not map to Crelate and require a parallel HRMS or payroll platform post-migration. We flag all employee fields that have no destination and provide a structured Employee Export package for the customer's chosen HRMS replacement.
Zimyo
Leave Management
Crelate
Not applicable
1:1Zimyo leave balances, accrual rules, carry-forward policies, and approval workflows have no Crelate equivalent. Crelate is a recruiting platform and does not track employee leave entitlements. We export leave balance snapshots as of the migration date and flag this module as requiring either retention in Zimyo (partial continued use), migration to a dedicated leave management platform, or manual reconciliation during HRMS cutover. Leave approval workflows do not migrate as automation; a written inventory of active approval rules is included in the deliverables.
Zimyo
Payroll Runs
Crelate
Not applicable
1:1Zimyo payroll history (earnings, deductions, tax withholdings, reimbursements, net pay) has no Crelate equivalent. Crelate does not process payroll. We export payroll run summaries and reconciliation files from Zimyo as structured CSV exports for the customer's payroll team to load into their replacement payroll platform. Individual earning codes and deduction categories are exported with full metadata for mapping into ADP, Rippling, Gusto, or whichever payroll system the customer selects post-migration.
Zimyo
Attendance Records
Crelate
Not applicable
1:1Zimyo clock-in/clock-out timestamps, overtime calculations, and shift mappings do not map to Crelate. Attendance is an HRMS function, not an ATS function. We export the most recent 12 months of attendance summaries as a structured export file for the customer's HRMS replacement. Attendance data integrity is validated against Zimyo's own reports before export to ensure no silent truncation.
Zimyo
Performance Reviews
Crelate
Not applicable
1:1Zimyo performance review cycles, goals, competency ratings, self-assessments, and manager feedback have no Crelate equivalent. We export historical performance review data as structured records including cycle name, rating scores, competency framework mapping, and reviewer feedback text. The export package is formatted for import into the customer's selected performance management platform (Lattice, 15Five, BambooHR, or another HRMS). Active review cycles in progress are flagged for manual completion or HRMS transition handling.
Zimyo
Organization Structure
Crelate
Department / Tags
lossyZimyo departments, cost centers, locations, and reporting hierarchies map partially to Crelate's Department and Tags configuration. We extract the full organization tree from Zimyo (departments, sub-departments, location codes, cost center IDs) and configure Crelate Departments and Tags to match. Reporting hierarchies (manager-employee relationships) are exported as a structured org chart export and are not built into Crelate's ATS data model; the customer's HRMS replacement maintains the official org structure post-migration.
Zimyo
Documents
Crelate
Document (People-attached)
1:1Zimyo employee documents (contracts, ID proofs, certifications, offer letters) attached to employee records are not the same as Crelate's candidate documents. Candidate-related documents (resumes, cover letters, portfolio files) attached to Zimyo candidate profiles migrate as Crelate Document records attached to the relevant People record with original filename and upload timestamp preserved via file integrity checksum. HRMS documents (employment contracts, tax forms, ID scans) are exported separately as a document package for the customer's HRMS replacement.
Zimyo
Custom Fields (Talent Acquisition)
Crelate
Custom Fields
lossyZimyo organization-specific custom fields added to candidate profiles, job postings, or applications map to Crelate custom fields. We discover the custom field schema during scoping, map field types (text, number, date, picklist, checkbox, multi-select) to their Crelate equivalents, and configure the destination fields in Crelate before migration. Custom fields that reference employee-specific data (e.g., employee ID, department assignment) are flagged as requiring either a custom integration or a separate HRMS data source post-migration.
| Zimyo | Crelate | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talent Acquisition: Candidate | People1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Talent Acquisition: Application | Application1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Talent Acquisition: Job Posting | Job1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Talent Acquisition: Interview Schedule | Activity + Event1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Talent Acquisition: Scorecard | Scorecard1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Talent Acquisition: Offer Letter | Document + Activity1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Talent Acquisition: Hiring Pipeline Stages | Pipeline + Stage Configurationlossy | Fully supported | |
| Employee (HR core) | People (with ATS scope)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Leave Management | Not applicable1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Payroll Runs | Not applicable1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Attendance Records | Not applicable1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Performance Reviews | Not applicable1:1 | Mapping required | |
| Organization Structure | Department / Tagslossy | Fully supported | |
| Documents | Document (People-attached)1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom Fields (Talent Acquisition) | Custom Fieldslossy | 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.
Zimyo gotchas
25-user minimum billing applies at all times
Leave and payroll processing errors documented in reviews
No publicly documented API rate limits or schema
USD-only transactions for US customers
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
Scoping and Zimyo talent acquisition audit
We audit the Zimyo talent acquisition module in scope: active and inactive candidates, application history, job postings (open, paused, closed), interview schedules, scorecard templates and completed scorecards, offer letters, hiring pipeline stage configurations, candidate source tracking, and any custom fields on candidate or job posting objects. We also capture the volume of non-ATS data (employees, payroll runs, leave balances, attendance logs, performance reviews) to scope the parallel HRMS export. The scoping output is a written migration scope document with record counts per object, custom field inventory, pipeline stage mapping, and a recommendation on whether the customer's parallel HRMS replacement should be scoped as a separate FlitStack AI engagement.
Schema discovery and Crelate environment setup
We conduct API schema discovery against the Zimyo instance and configure the Crelate destination environment: Pipelines and Stages are set up to align with the Zimyo hiring pipeline (stage names, order, probability mapping if applicable), custom fields are provisioned in Crelate to receive mapped Zimyo custom properties, Department and Tags structures are configured to match the Zimyo organization hierarchy, and User accounts are provisioned or matched for any Zimyo recruiters or hiring managers who will use Crelate. If Crelate's standard Pipeline model does not fully represent the customer's hiring workflow, we document the gap and recommend a Crelate configuration adjustment before migration begins.
Test migration and reconciliation
We run a full test migration into a Crelate test or staging environment using production-like data volume. The customer's recruiting lead reviews a random sample of migrated candidate records (typically 25-50 records), verifies that scorecards, application history, interview schedules, and file attachments appear correctly, and confirms that pipeline stage labels match expectations. Any mapping corrections, custom field omissions, or stage alignment issues are resolved in the test environment before production migration begins. This step also validates that the parallel HRMS export package (employee records, payroll, leave) is structurally complete and ready for the customer's replacement HRMS load.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order: Crelate Users and Departments first (to satisfy lookups), then Job postings (to satisfy application lookups), then Candidates as People, then Applications (with candidate reference and job reference resolved), then Interview Activities and Scorecards (linked to Applications), then Offer Letters and Document attachments (with file integrity checksum validation), and finally custom field values on all migrated records. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report showing records attempted, records committed, records skipped, and records held for review. We apply conservative API pacing throughout to avoid impacting live Zimyo HR operations.
Parallel HRMS export and handoff
We export non-ATS Zimyo data (employee records, payroll run summaries, leave balance snapshots, attendance summaries, performance review history, benefits enrollment records, and organization structure) as structured data packages. These packages are formatted for import into the customer's replacement HRMS (ADP, Rippling, Gusto, BambooHR, or another platform). We deliver a written data dictionary mapping each exported field to the corresponding field in the replacement HRMS, flag any fields that require transformation or manual entry, and provide a parallel HRMS migration engagement proposal if the customer wants FlitStack AI to handle that scope as well.
Cutover, validation, and automation inventory handoff
We freeze write access to the recruiting module in Zimyo during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then enable Crelate as the recruiting system of record. We deliver the Zimyo workflow and approval rule inventory document to the customer's recruiting and HR admin teams for rebuild in Crelate (recruiting automations) and in the parallel HRMS (payroll and leave approvals). We support a one-week hypercare window where we resolve any reconciliation issues raised by the recruiting team. Post-migration, Zimyo may be retained for payroll and non-recruiting HR functions if a full migration is not yet complete, or decommissioned if the parallel HRMS replacement is live.
Platform deep dives
Zimyo
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 Zimyo 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
Zimyo: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
Zimyo 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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