Project Management migration

Migrate from Time Champ to Asana

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

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Time Champ

Source

Asana

Destination

Asana logo

Compatibility

75%

9 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Time Champ and Asana.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

3-5 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Time Champ to Asana is a schema-bridging migration, not a direct record copy. Time Champ is a workforce intelligence platform built around silent activity monitoring, attendance tracking, and app-usage classification; Asana is a task and project management platform with no native attendance, GPS, or app-surveillance module. We preserve the data that can land cleanly — users mapped to Asana members, teams mapped to Asana Teams, and timesheet narratives decomposed into time entries for Asana's paid Timesheets add-on. Attendance records, shift schedules, activity logs, screenshots, and tenant-scoped productivity classifications have no direct Asana equivalent and are delivered as structured reference exports for manual rebuild. We do not migrate Time Champ's alerting engine, burnout signals, or attrition risk scores because these are computed at runtime and are not persistent records. Workflows, alert rules, and notification configurations are similarly out of scope; we deliver a written inventory of these for your admin to recreate in Asana Rules.

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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Time Champ

What's pushing teams away

  • The iOS app has recurring stability issues — users report that automatic screen recordings continue after the employee has manually stopped the tracker and can run outside working hours, creating a trust and privacy problem.
  • The interface and feature depth cause an overwhelming experience for new administrators — advanced reports, alert configurations, and shift scheduling require time to navigate effectively before the team sees value.
  • Screenshots are not available on the Starter plan and are retained for only one week on Professional, which frustrates teams that need longer audit trails or proof-of-work documentation during compliance reviews.
  • The per-user, per-month billing model can produce unexpected cost increases as teams grow, especially when the number of tracked users is not actively managed against the tier's seat cap.
  • Processing multiple reports simultaneously is slow and limited on lower tiers, which makes the tool feel constrained for operations teams that generate high report volumes regularly.

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 Time Champ objects map to Asana

Each row shows how a Time Champ 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.

Time Champ

User

maps to

Asana

Member (User)

1:1
Fully supported

Time Champ user records (name, email, tracking mode preference, team assignment, license tier) map to Asana members. The Silent vs Interactive tracking-mode setting from Time Champ is preserved as a custom text field tc_tracking_mode__c on the Asana member for audit reference. Users must be provisioned in Asana before any cross-platform lookup can resolve task assignments or team memberships during migration.

Time Champ

Team

maps to

Asana

Team

1:1
Fully supported

Time Champ teams (users and optional line-manager hierarchy on Professional+) map to Asana Teams. We resolve the parent-child user relationships from Time Champ's org hierarchy and map them to Asana Team membership. If the customer exceeds Asana's free-tier seat limit for Teams (Starter caps at one Team; Starter trial allows three Teams), we route the migration to the paid Asana tier during scoping.

Time Champ

Timesheet

maps to

Asana

Time Entry (via Asana Timesheets add-on)

1:many
Fully supported

Time Champ generates timesheets from auto-tracked activity windows. We decompose each aggregated timesheet into atomic time entries with date, duration, user, and project/task association. Asana's native time tracking requires the paid Timesheets add-on ($10/user/mo); we verify this add-on is active before migration and warn if it is not. Time Claims (employee-initiated corrections to auto-tracked time) migrate as time entry line items with a tc_time_claim flag.

Time Champ

Attendance Record

maps to

Asana

None (reference export only)

1:1
Fully supported

Time Champ attendance records (daily clock-in/clock-out, overtime, late-arrival flags) have no native Asana equivalent. Asana has no attendance or time-clock module at any tier. We export attendance records as a structured CSV (user, date, clock_in, clock_out, overtime_hours, late_arrival_flag) for the customer to load into their HRIS, payroll system, or a separate attendance tool. Attendance data is not deleted — it is preserved as a reference export with a rebuild recommendation for a dedicated attendance platform.

Time Champ

Shift

maps to

Asana

None (reference export only)

1:1
Fully supported

Time Champ shifts define working-hours windows, days of the week, and break configurations. Multi-Shift Configuration is a Professional+ feature. Asana has no native shift scheduling or working-hours configuration. We export shift definitions as a structured JSON file (shift_name, user, start_time, end_time, days_of_week, break_config) with a manual-setup checklist for the customer's admin to configure in their preferred scheduling or calendar tool.

Time Champ

Activity Log

maps to

Asana

None (reference export only)

1:1
Fully supported

Time Champ app and URL usage logs with tenant-scoped Productive/Unproductive classifications have no Asana equivalent. Asana does not track app usage or website activity. We export activity logs as a structured CSV (user, date, app_name, url, duration_seconds, productivity_classification) ordered by user and date for the customer's reference. The productivity classification ruleset (which apps are tagged Productive/Unproductive/Neutral) is exported separately as a configuration reference CSV.

Time Champ

Screenshot

maps to

Asana

None (reference export only)

1:1
Fully supported

Screenshots captured in Time Champ are binary blobs with a capture timestamp associated with an activity window. Asana has no attachment or storage mechanism for screenshot surveillance data. We export screenshot metadata (capture_timestamp, user, associated_activity_window_start, associated_activity_window_end, tc_blur_flag) as a structured CSV if retention is still within the plan's window. If the Professional-tier 1-week retention has already expired, we document this gap in the data completeness report before migration begins.

Time Champ

GPS / Location Tracking

maps to

Asana

None (reference export only)

1:1
Mapping required

Field employee GPS location logs tied to user records and activity periods have no native Asana equivalent. We export location data as a structured CSV (user, timestamp, latitude, longitude, associated_activity_window) for the customer's reference. If the destination use case requires location tracking, we recommend a dedicated field workforce management or GPS attendance tool post-migration.

Time Champ

Productivity Classification

maps to

Asana

None (manual-setup checklist only)

lossy
Fully supported

Time Champ's Productive/Unproductive app classification rules are entirely tenant-scoped custom definitions. These do not map to any Asana field because Asana has no native productivity classification system. We extract the full classification ruleset (app_name, url_pattern, classification_label) as a structured CSV and deliver it as a manual-setup checklist for the customer's admin to recreate in any classification tool they adopt post-migration.

Time Champ

Holiday

maps to

Asana

None (manual-setup checklist only)

1:1
Fully supported

Time Champ tenant-defined holidays are a flat list of date/name pairs. These do not have an Asana equivalent because Asana has no native holiday configuration for timesheet calculations. We export holidays as a structured CSV (holiday_date, holiday_name) and flag it for manual entry into the customer's HRIS or payroll tool.

Time Champ

Time Claim

maps to

Asana

Time Entry (via Asana Timesheets add-on)

1:1
Fully supported

Time Claims are employee-initiated corrections or additions to auto-tracked time. We treat them as a timesheet line-item type and migrate them alongside standard time entries with a tc_time_claim flag set to true. The Asana Timesheets add-on must be active for these to land as billable or trackable entries.

Time Champ

Alert and Notification

maps to

Asana

None (inventory only)

lossy
Fully supported

Time Champ burnout early-warning alerts, attrition risk signals, and real-time status notifications are computed at runtime from activity patterns. These are not persistent data records and cannot be migrated. We deliver a written inventory of active alert rules (alert_type, trigger_condition, notification_recipient, notification_channel) for the customer's admin to evaluate recreating in Asana Rules or a dedicated people analytics tool.

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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Time Champ gotchas

High

Per-user billing with no inactive-seat grace period

Medium

Screenshots are tier-gated and short-retained on Professional

Medium

Teams seat cap is a hard structural limit

Low

iOS app tracker malfunction corrupts activity log continuity

Low

Productivity classifications are tenant-scoped, not universal

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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 attendance or time-clock module at any tier

    Time Champ attendance records (clock-in, clock-out, overtime, late-arrival flags) cannot land in Asana because Asana has no attendance module. We export attendance as a structured CSV for the customer's HRIS or payroll system, but the customer must have a separate plan for attendance tracking post-migration. Migrations that assume Asana will replace Time Champ's attendance function will hit a gap at go-live. We surface this gap during scoping and confirm the customer's attendance destination before migration begins.

  • Asana's Timesheets add-on is required for time-entry reconstruction

    Time Champ auto-tracks activity windows and generates timesheets; Asana has no native time tracking without the paid Timesheets add-on at $10/user/month. We verify add-on availability during scoping. If the customer has not licensed Timesheets, we flag this as a pre-migration requirement and do not attempt to create time entries without it. Migrating timesheet narratives without the add-on results in data loss because there is no destination field for the duration or date of work.

  • Activity logs, screenshots, and GPS data have no Asana equivalent

    Time Champ app-usage logs, screenshots, and GPS tracking records are surveillance-layer data with no analog in Asana's task-centric schema. We preserve these as structured reference exports (CSV and metadata), but they cannot be inserted into Asana as native records. If the customer requires these for compliance audits or client proof-of-work, they must be stored in a separate document management or HRIS platform. We document the export schema for each data type during discovery.

  • Productivity classifications are tenant-scoped and require manual rebuild

    Time Champ's Productive/Unproductive app classification rules are entirely custom per tenant. Asana has no native productivity classification system, so there is no standard mapping. We extract the full ruleset (app name, URL, classification label) as a structured CSV, but the customer must manually recreate these in any classification tool they adopt post-migration. If the customer relies on these classifications for internal reporting, we flag this as a manual-setup gap before migration day.

  • iOS tracker outliers may corrupt timesheet continuity

    Multiple G2 reviews document that the Time Champ iOS app sometimes fails to stop tracking when the employee presses stop, continuing to record activity data after the session has ended. This produces unusually long sessions with timestamps outside the employee's shift window. We detect these outliers during the profiling phase and flag them for customer review before deciding whether to include or exclude anomalous records from the timesheet decomposition. Excluded records are preserved in the raw export for manual resolution.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Time Champ to Asana data migration

  1. Discovery and add-on verification

    We audit the source Time Champ account across tier (Starter/Professional/Enterprise), user count, team count, tracking mode distribution (Silent vs Interactive), attendance record volume, timesheet period coverage, activity log retention window, and any active screenshot capture settings. We verify whether the Asana destination has the Timesheets add-on active at the required seat count. The discovery output is a written migration scope that explicitly lists which data types migrate to Asana, which migrate as reference exports, and which have no destination and are inventoried for manual rebuild.

  2. User provisioning and team structure design

    We extract all Time Champ users and match by email against the Asana destination's member list. Users without an Asana account go to a reconciliation queue for the customer's admin to provision. We design the Asana Team structure to mirror Time Champ teams, preserving the line-manager hierarchy as Team member roles where Asana supports them. If the customer exceeds Asana Starter's team limits, we route to the appropriate paid tier during scoping.

  3. Timesheet decomposition and time-entry import

    We decompose Time Champ timesheet narratives into atomic time entries (date, duration, user, project/task association) and import them through Asana's Timesheets add-on API. Time Claims migrate with a tc_time_claim flag set. We verify the Timesheets add-on is licensed for all migrating users before import begins. Each batch of time entries emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next batch starts.

  4. Attendance, shift, and surveillance-layer reference exports

    We export attendance records, shift schedules, activity logs, screenshot metadata, GPS logs, and productivity classification rules as structured CSV and JSON files. Each export includes a schema description and a manual-setup recommendation (HRIS, payroll tool, dedicated attendance platform, or document management system). These exports are delivered as a named reference package alongside the Asana migration, not inserted into Asana.

  5. Alert and notification inventory

    We extract every active Time Champ alert rule (burnout warning, attrition signal, real-time status, suspicious activity detection) as a structured inventory document. This document lists the alert type, trigger condition, notification recipient, and channel for each rule and provides a recommended Asana Rule equivalent or a note that the functionality requires a dedicated people analytics tool. The customer's admin uses this inventory to rebuild alerts post-migration.

  6. Cutover, validation, and post-migration handoff

    We freeze Time Champ writes during cutover, run a final delta export of any records modified during the migration window, then confirm Asana as the system of record. We deliver the reference export package (attendance, shifts, activity logs, screenshots, GPS, productivity classifications) and the alert inventory document to the customer's admin team. We support a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues. We do not rebuild Time Champ alert rules in Asana Rules or migrate Time Champ workflows as Asana automations inside the migration scope.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

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Time Champ

Source

Strengths

  • Automatic activity tracking removes the need for employees to start/stop timers, producing complete timesheets without manual upkeep.
  • 100+ first-party integrations including Slack, Jira, Microsoft Teams, Trello, and Google Workspace cover common business toolchains out of the box.
  • Documented Swagger REST API plus webhooks for custom integration with internal systems.
  • G2 user-satisfaction rating of 96% across 195+ reviews indicates broad-based positive sentiment for a niche monitoring tool.
  • Tiered pricing starting at roughly $3.90/user/month makes productivity analytics affordable for small operations teams migrating from manual timesheets.

Weaknesses

  • Learning curve for new admins is widely reported; the depth of reports, alerts, and shift configuration overwhelms first-time users.
  • Idle-time detection counts meeting time as idle when keyboard/mouse activity is low, producing inaccurate productivity scores for collaborative roles.
  • Occasional UI lag and display discrepancies in reports require manual refresh to resolve, per G2 reviews.
  • Data accuracy concerns surface in user reviews — some sessions are logged inaccurately, undermining trust for compliance or billing use cases.
  • Certain integrations and screenshot-heavy features sit behind higher tiers, adding cost pressure as teams scale or need longer retention.
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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 Time Champ 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

    Time Champ: Not publicly documented; limits are described per-integration and confirmed during onboarding by Time Champ support..

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

    Time Champ 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 200 users with clean timesheet records and no attendance record export requirement. Migrations that include full attendance record export, shift schedule documentation, large activity log datasets (over 50,000 app-usage records), or iOS tracker outlier review move to eight to twelve weeks because of schema gap analysis, structured reference export preparation, and manual-setup checklist compilation. The timeline is longer than same-platform migrations because a significant portion of Time Champ data has no Asana destination and must be exported and documented rather than migrated.

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