Project Management migration

Migrate from Streamtime to Asana

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

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Streamtime

Source

Asana

Destination

Asana logo

Compatibility

50%

6 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Streamtime and Asana.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

3-5 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Streamtime and Asana organize work differently. Streamtime centers on Jobs, a container that ties tasks, schedules, time entries, and commercial documents into a single financial view. Asana is task-first: Projects hold Tasks, and any financial, client, or time-tracking context lives in custom fields or external integrations. We migrate Jobs as Projects with their To-Do hierarchy intact, preserve Time Entries as notes-attached tasks or custom fields, map Companies to an Asana organization or a client-tagged custom field, and flag every rate card, Quote, Invoice, and PO that has no native Asana equivalent so the customer's team knows exactly what requires rebuild. We do not migrate automations, templates-as-code, or financial workflows. We deliver a written inventory of any Template Jobs so the customer's admin can rebuild them as Asana Project Templates 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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Streamtime

What's pushing teams away

  • Budgeting and accounting features are limited or require workarounds for agencies with complex billing structures or multi-currency projects.
  • The platform lacks the advanced enterprise features, automation depth, and integrations that growing agencies eventually need.
  • Some users report that the interface feels dated compared to newer project management tools that launched after Streamtime's 2016 web version.
  • Support responsiveness varies, with some customers noting difficulty reaching knowledgeable staff for technical or billing issues.

Choosing

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Asana

What's pulling them in

  • Organizations with distributed teams cite Asana's multiple project views (List, Board, Calendar, Timeline) as the primary reason for adoption, allowing each team member to work in their preferred interface without changing the underlying data.
  • The platform's 100+ native integrations with tools like Slack, Google Drive, Salesforce, and Microsoft Teams reduce context-switching and keep work synchronized across the stack.
  • Small teams and non-profits value the free plan's generous limits: unlimited projects and tasks for up to 15 team members with basic views, enabling teams to validate fit before committing to a paid tier.
  • Marketing and creative teams specifically praise Asana's visual project organization, reporting dashboards, and timeline views for managing cross-functional campaign workflows.
  • Project managers report that Asana's dependency management and workload views help surface bottlenecks before they derail deadlines.

Object mapping

How Streamtime objects map to Asana

Each row shows how a Streamtime object lands in Asana, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.

Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.

Streamtime

Job

maps to

Asana

Project

1:1
Fully supported

Streamtime Jobs map directly to Asana Projects. We preserve the Job title, description, start and due dates, status (active, on hold, complete), and budget fields as native Asana Project fields or as custom fields on the Project. The Job's full To-Do hierarchy migrates as Task and Subtask under the Project. Note that Asana Projects have no native budget field—we capture the original budget as a currency-formatted custom field for the customer's admin to populate post-migration or connect to a budgeting add-on.

Streamtime

To-Do

maps to

Asana

Task

1:1
Fully supported

Streamtime To-Dos nested within a Job map to Asana Tasks under the corresponding Project. We preserve the To-Do title, description, assignees (mapped to Asana Members by email), due date, completion status, and the parent-child nesting depth. Streamtime's unlimited nesting flattens to Asana's two-level Subtask model; To-Dos nested beyond two levels are surfaced as flat Tasks within the Project with a custom field parent_to_do__c referencing the hierarchy for the admin to restructure.

Streamtime

Time Entry

maps to

Asana

Task (time-tracking) or Custom Field

lossy
Fully supported

Streamtime Time Entries—logged against a Job with duration, team member, date, and optional notes—map to Asana Tasks annotated with the time entry data. We create a placeholder Task with the Time Entry title as the Task name, assign it to the team member, and attach the duration and date as a custom field set (hours__c, date__c, notes__c). If the customer licenses Asana's native time-tracking add-on, we instead populate the built-in time-tracking fields. Rate Card multipliers do not carry forward; we document the original rate card values separately for the customer to configure in any connected billing tool.

Streamtime

Company

maps to

Asana

Organization or Custom Field

1:1
Fully supported

Streamtime Companies map to Asana Organizations if the destination is a company-wide workspace, or to a client__c custom field on each Project if Asana is used as a multi-client workspace. We preserve the Company name, website, primary contact name, email, and phone. If the Company has an assigned Rate Card in Streamtime, we document that association as a rate_card_reference__c custom field value so the customer's team can reconnect it to any billing integration in Asana.

Streamtime

Team Member

maps to

Asana

Member

1:1
Fully supported

Streamtime Team Members map to Asana Members by email match. We extract the full team member list from Streamtime—name, email, role, and whether they are a billable or non-billable resource—and import them into Asana. Any team member without an Asana invite pending is flagged in the reconciliation report. Streamtime's role designations (creative director, designer, developer) are stored in a role__c custom field on the Asana Member profile.

Streamtime

Schedule

maps to

Asana

Custom Field or Assignee

1:1
Fully supported

Streamtime Schedules represent a team member's allocated time on a Job for a given date range. Asana does not have a native resource scheduling or capacity planning model. We map Schedule allocations to a scheduled_hours__c custom field on the Task, assigned to the team member, and preserve the start date, end date, and hours. The customer should evaluate Asana's resource management add-on or a third-party tool like Runrun.it or Resource Guru if capacity planning is a recurring operational need.

Streamtime

Rate Card

maps to

Asana

Custom Fields

lossy
Mapping required

Streamtime Rate Cards define pricing tiers by role, item, or expense per client or project. Asana has no native rate card model. We create a rate_card__c custom field on Projects storing the JSON-serialized rate card structure (role, rate, currency) as a reference document. The customer's admin maps these to any connected billing tool (Harvest, Toggl, or an invoicing integration) post-migration. Rate card transformations are documented but not automated inside Asana.

Streamtime

Quote

maps to

Asana

Custom Object or Document

lossy
Fully supported

Streamtime Quotes are commercial documents with line items, pricing, currency, and status generated from Job data. Asana has no native quoting object. We export Quotes as structured CSV records and deliver them alongside a schema specification for the customer to build a custom Quote object in Asana (using Asana's Custom Objects beta or a third-party quoting tool like Qatalog, Cube, or a custom-built integration). Line item data is preserved but requires manual reassembly in the destination.

Streamtime

Invoice

maps to

Asana

External Document

lossy
Fully supported

Streamtime Invoices are tied to Jobs and Time Entries with line items, amounts, currency, and payment status. Asana has no native invoicing object. We export Invoice records as CSV with full line item detail, payment status, and the original Job reference. The customer should connect Asana to a dedicated invoicing tool (Wave, FreshBooks, QuickBooks, or a custom integration) post-migration; we provide the exported data and the data dictionary.

Streamtime

Purchase Order

maps to

Asana

External Document

lossy
Fully supported

Streamtime Purchase Orders include vendor associations, line items, and amounts. Asana has no native PO object. We export PO records as CSV preserving vendor name, PO number, line items, total amount, and status. The customer's finance team uses this export to reconstruct POs in their accounting system or any connected procurement tool.

Streamtime

Template Job

maps to

Asana

Project Template

lossy
Fully supported

Streamtime Template Jobs are duplicated to create new Jobs with pre-configured To-Dos, rate card associations, and structure. Asana Project Templates exist but do not carry custom fields, rate references, or budget data. We export Template Jobs as standard Projects with a template__c boolean custom field set to true and a full To-Do structure. The customer's admin uses these as blueprints to create native Asana Project Templates. We provide a template mapping guide as part of the handoff documentation.

Streamtime

Attachment

maps to

Asana

Attachment

1:1
Fully supported

Streamtime file attachments linked to Jobs and commercial documents migrate as Asana Attachments linked to the corresponding Project or Task. We extract the file URL or blob, upload it to Asana via the API, and link it to the parent record. Large files (over 100 MB) may require chunked upload or an external storage reference if Asana's attachment size limits apply. We flag any oversized files in the pre-migration scan.

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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Streamtime gotchas

High

API rate limits can interrupt bulk migration jobs

Medium

Only the account subscriber can access the API key

Medium

Financial export permissions are separate from job permissions

Low

Template Jobs require upfront setup before migration

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Asana gotchas

High

Automation rules have no export representation

High

API rate limits cap bulk migration throughput

Medium

Portfolios are view-only objects that do not hold data

Medium

Custom field enum options cannot be updated via API

Low

Subtasks do not appear in project views by default

Pair-specific challenges

  • Asana has no native rate card, quote, or invoice model

    Streamtime's financial layer—Rate Cards, Quotes, Invoices, and POs—is not a reporting convenience but a core data structure agencies depend on for client billing. Asana is a task and project management tool with no native commercial document support. We export Quotes, Invoices, and POs as structured CSV records and map Rate Cards to custom fields, but the customer must connect Asana to a dedicated billing or accounting tool (Harvest, QuickBooks, FreshBooks, Wave, or a custom integration) to operationalize that data. Teams that depend on Streamtime's embedded billing workflow should plan the replacement tool selection before migration cutover.

  • Native time tracking requires Asana's premium add-on or a third-party integration

    Streamtime embeds time tracking directly in the Job workflow without requiring a separate timesheet submission. Asana's native time tracking requires the Asana Timesheets and Budgets add-on (Premium and above) or a third-party integration like Harvest, Toggl, Everhour, or Reclaim.ai. Time entries in Streamtime—logged against Jobs with duration, team member, and date—migrate as annotated Tasks or as custom field data. The customer's team needs to decide whether to use Asana's native add-on or continue with their existing time-tracking tool before cutover so that the migration structure aligns with whichever method they adopt.

  • Streamtime API rate limits restrict bulk export throughput

    Streamtime's Public API enforces 60 requests per minute and 720 requests per hour, with processing time capped at 300 seconds per hour. Exceeding hourly limits returns a 429 error and can interrupt a running migration. We throttle API calls to respect these limits and paginate large dataset exports across multiple windows. For customers with large Job histories (over 500 Jobs, 10,000 To-Dos), we schedule export windows outside business hours or request elevated limits from [email protected] in advance. This is a source-platform constraint that affects the migration timeline but not the data fidelity.

  • Template Jobs and rate card associations require manual rebuild in Asana

    Streamtime Template Jobs carry not just task structure but rate card associations, budget defaults, and To-Do templates linked to Master Items. Asana Project Templates carry task names and section structure only. We export Template Jobs with a template__c flag and full To-Do hierarchy, but rate card linkage, Master Item associations, and default budget values are not carried forward automatically. We deliver a Template Inventory document listing every source Template Job and its components so the customer's admin can rebuild the Asana equivalents. This is a manual rebuild task outside the automated migration scope.

  • Asana dependency date calculations can produce unexpected offset behavior

    Asana's Timeline view uses dependency arrows to calculate dependent task dates, but users on the Asana Forum report that manual date changes on a predecessor task can produce incorrect offsets on dependent tasks, especially in chains with multiple dependencies or mixed dependency types (finish-start, start-finish). When migrating Streamtime Jobs with To-Dos that have dependencies, we preserve the dependency structure but set due dates explicitly rather than relying on auto-calculation. The customer's admin should validate dependency chains in Asana's Timeline view after migration and before using automated dependency recalculation for any critical-path work.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Streamtime to Asana data migration

  1. Discovery and Streamtime API access

    We audit the source Streamtime account across Jobs, To-Dos, Time Entries, Companies, Team Members, Rate Cards, Template Jobs, and any exported financial documents. We confirm the account subscriber credentials for API key access, verify that the migration user has both Job-view and financial-export permissions, and extract a full data inventory including record counts per object type. The discovery output is a written migration scope with record counts, a preliminary object mapping, and any rate card or financial document flags.

  2. Asana workspace preparation

    We configure the destination Asana workspace before any data import. This includes creating the organization structure or setting up client-tagged Projects, provisioning Members for each Team Member (matched by email from Streamtime), creating custom fields for rate card data, budget fields, role designations, and time entry annotations, and setting up any Project Templates as the Asana equivalents of source Template Jobs. We deploy into a staging Asana workspace first to validate the schema before production migration.

  3. Dependency order migration

    We run production migration in record-dependency order to satisfy Asana's referential integrity requirements. The sequence is: Team Members (matched to Asana Members by email), Companies (as Organization or client custom field), Projects (from Jobs), Tasks (from To-Dos with parent hierarchy resolved), Time Entries (as annotated Tasks or custom field data), Rate Card documentation (as custom field values), and Template Job blueprints (as flagged Projects for admin rebuild). Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. Financial documents (Quotes, Invoices, POs) are exported as CSV on a parallel track and delivered alongside the migration.

  4. Rate card and financial document export

    We export Rate Cards, Quotes, Invoices, and POs as structured CSV records with full line-item detail, currency, status, and the parent Job reference. Rate card JSON structures are serialized into a rate_card__c custom field on each Project for reference. We do not create native Asana equivalents of these objects because they do not exist. The customer receives the exported CSVs, a data dictionary describing every column, and a rebuild guide recommending tools (Harvest for time and billing, Wave or FreshBooks for invoicing, Qatalog or Cube for quoting) and linking each exported record to its Asana Project parent.

  5. Sandbox validation and template rebuild guide

    We run a full migration into Asana staging before production cutover. The customer's project manager and admin validate record counts, spot-check task hierarchy, verify time entry annotations, confirm custom field values, and sign off the template mapping. Any mapping corrections happen in staging. We deliver the Template Inventory document describing every source Template Job and its components so the admin can create native Asana Project Templates. This step is the gate before production cutover.

  6. Production cutover and post-migration handoff

    We freeze Streamtime writes during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then mark Asana as the system of record. We deliver the Template Rebuild Guide, the Rate Card Integration Plan, and the Financial Document Export Pack. We support a one-week hypercare window where we resolve any reconciliation issues. We do not rebuild automations, Rules, or Workflows inside Asana as part of the migration scope; that is a separate engagement or an internal admin task.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Streamtime

Source

Strengths

  • Time tracking is embedded in the workflow without requiring separate timesheet submission from team members.
  • Rate cards support per-client, per-project, and multi-currency pricing configurations out of the box.
  • Financial reporting covers work-in-progress, client profitability, and team capacity without requiring third-party integrations.
  • Template Jobs allow teams to standardize recurring project structures and reduce manual setup time.
  • CSV export is available for reports and list views, enabling data portability for analysis outside the platform.

Weaknesses

  • Budgeting and accounting features are limited compared to dedicated agency finance tools, with some customers reporting gaps for complex billing scenarios.
  • The interface has not received major visual updates since the 2016 web version launch, feeling dated compared to newer competitors.
  • Enterprise-tier features such as advanced automation, custom workflows, and deep third-party integrations are limited compared to platforms like monday.com or Asana.
  • Rate card setup requires navigating multiple settings screens, creating a learning curve for new administrators.
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Asana

Destination

Strengths

  • Unlimited projects and tasks on the free plan for teams up to 15 members.
  • 100+ native integrations including Salesforce, Slack, Google Drive, and Microsoft Teams.
  • Four distinct project views (List, Board, Calendar, Timeline) in a single interface.
  • Dependency management with start/end dates and predecessor links for critical path tracking.
  • Portfolio dashboards for executives to track cross-project status and workload.

Weaknesses

  • Per-seat pricing scales expensively: Advanced tier costs nearly double Starter for a 50-seat team.
  • API does not expose all UI-accessible data; some fields require screen-scraping for full fidelity.
  • Automation rule limits on lower tiers are restrictive, causing power users to upgrade or leave.
  • No native document/wiki capability forces teams to use external tools for knowledge management.
  • Rate limits (150 req/min on free, 1,500 req/min on paid) constrain bulk migration throughput.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Standard Project Management migration. 2 of 8 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 Streamtime and Asana.

  • Object compatibility

    B

    2 of 8 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

    8-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.

  • API constraints

    B

    Streamtime: 60 requests/min, 720 requests/hour, 30s processing/min, 300s processing/hour.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

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

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Most migrations land between three and five weeks for accounts under 500 Jobs, 5,000 To-Dos, and 2,000 Time Entries with straightforward task hierarchy and no financial document export complexity. Migrations with rate card mapping to custom fields, Quote and Invoice CSV export, large time entry histories, or Template Job inventories requiring manual Asana template setup move to eight to twelve weeks. Streamtime's API rate limits (720 requests per hour) constrain bulk export throughput and can extend the timeline for large datasets.

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