Project Management migration

Migrate from Time Champ to Trello

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

Time Champ logo

Time Champ

Source

Trello

Destination

Trello logo

Compatibility

33%

4 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Time Champ and Trello.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

2-3 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Time Champ and Trello serve fundamentally different functions — Time Champ tracks employee activity, app usage, GPS location, and productivity classifications for workforce intelligence; Trello organizes projects into Workspaces, Boards, Lists, and Cards for team collaboration. There is no shared object vocabulary between them, so the migration is a reconstruction exercise: we extract users and their team assignments from Time Champ, map Projects and Tasks from any linked project integrations, and decompose timesheet entries into individual time-block cards or card attachments in Trello. Monitoring-specific records — app surveillance logs, GPS tracks, screenshots, productivity scores, and burnout alerts — have no Trello equivalent and do not migrate. We do not migrate Time Champ workflows, alerts, or shift schedules as automation code; we deliver a written inventory of these for the customer's admin to rebuild using Trello Automations and Calendar Power-Up after cutover.

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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Trello

What's pulling them in

  • Free plan supports unlimited users and 10 boards, giving small teams full access to core Kanban functionality before any paid commitment is required.
  • The drag-and-drop board/card/Label interface requires no training, which reduces adoption friction and onboarding time across distributed teams.
  • Atlassian ecosystem integration with Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket provides native cross-tool workflows for teams already using Atlassian tools.
  • Butler automation on paid tiers enables rule-based triggers without third-party integrations, covering basic workflow automation needs.
  • Simple visual task management with due dates, checklists, and member assignments keeps individual contributors and small teams organized without complexity.

Object mapping

How Time Champ objects map to Trello

Each row shows how a Time Champ object lands in Trello, 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

Trello

Member

1:1
Fully supported

Time Champ User records map to Trello Members. We extract name, email, and team assignment as the primary mapping. The Silent vs Interactive tracking mode setting from Time Champ does not have a Trello equivalent and is dropped. Member email is used as the Trello dedupe key. If a Time Champ user does not have a Trello account at migration time, we add them to the Workspace Members list with a pending invitation status for the admin to accept.

Time Champ

Team

maps to

Trello

Workspace

1:1
Mapping required

Time Champ Teams map to Trello Workspaces. Each Team's name and line-manager hierarchy from Professional+ migrate as Workspace description and admin-level Member. Teams are migrated first because Member assignments in Trello depend on Workspace-level member lists being populated before Card assignments are resolved.

Time Champ

Project (via Time Champ-Trello integration)

maps to

Trello

Board

1:1
Fully supported

If the customer has an active Time Champ-Trello integration, Projects tracked within Time Champ map to existing Trello Boards. We extract the project identifier, name, and associated task list. Cards already in Trello are matched by name or external ID and are not duplicated — we flag any orphaned Trello Cards not linked to a Time Champ project for customer review.

Time Champ

Task (from Time Champ-Trello integration)

maps to

Trello

Card

1:1
Fully supported

Tasks synced from Trello into Time Champ via the native integration map back to Trello Cards. We use the Trello Card ID (embedded in Time Champ's integration metadata) as the primary key to avoid creating duplicate Cards. Task status, description, assignee, and due date migrate as Card fields. Tasks without a matching Trello Card ID are created as new Cards in the customer's designated Board.

Time Champ

Shift

maps to

Trello

Calendar Power-Up or Card Due Date

lossy
Fully supported

Time Champ Shifts define working-hours windows and break configurations per user. Trello has no native shift model. We extract shift schedules as a structured CSV (user, shift name, days, start time, end time) and deliver it as a manual-setup checklist for the customer's admin to configure in Trello Calendar Power-Up or as recurring Card due dates. Multi-Shift Configuration is a Professional+ feature — Starter users have no shifts to migrate.

Time Champ

Timesheet / Time Entry

maps to

Trello

Card Attachment or Card Comment

1:many
Fully supported

Time Champ generates timesheets from auto-tracked activity. We decompose aggregated timesheet rows into atomic time entries (date, duration, user, task/project). Each time entry is written as a Trello Card attachment (structured JSON file) or as a Card Comment with the format 'Time logged: X hours on Y date'. For teams using Trello's Time Tracking Power-Up, we map time entries to the Power-Up's time field directly via API where supported.

Time Champ

Attendance Record

maps to

Trello

Card Comment (no native equivalent)

lossy
Fully supported

Daily attendance entries (clock-in, clock-out, overtime, late-arrival flags) have no Trello object equivalent. We extract attendance records as a structured CSV and deliver it as a Board-level attachment, noting that Trello does not natively track attendance. If the customer requires attendance tracking, Trello's Checklists on Cards can be adapted for manual sign-in/sign-out, but this requires admin configuration and is not automated.

Time Champ

Activity Log (app/URL usage)

maps to

Trello

Not migrated

lossy
Fully supported

App and URL usage logs are classified as Productive/Unproductive per Time Champ's tenant-scoped rules and have no Trello equivalent. Trello is a project management tool — it does not track employee app usage. We extract the full activity log as a structured CSV export and present it as an archived reference file for compliance or audit purposes.

Time Champ

GPS / Location Tracking

maps to

Trello

Not migrated

lossy
Mapping required

GPS location logs tied to Time Champ user records have no Trello equivalent. Trello does not support geolocation fields on Cards or Boards. We extract location data as a structured CSV export for records the customer needs to retain for field workforce compliance or audit purposes.

Time Champ

Screenshot

maps to

Trello

Not migrated

lossy
Fully supported

Screenshot capture is tier-gated in Time Champ (Starter: none, Professional: 1-week retention, Enterprise: extended). Screenshots are binary blobs with no Trello Card attachment equivalent, and their inclusion would create significant data bloat. We flag screenshot export eligibility early in scoping — if the Professional retention window has already passed, those records are absent from the source. We note the gap in the data completeness report and do not migrate screenshots.

Time Champ

Productivity Classifications

maps to

Trello

Custom Fields (manual rebuild)

lossy
Mapping required

Time Champ's Productive/Unproductive/Neutral app classifications are tenant-scoped custom rules with no universal taxonomy. Trello's Custom Fields can approximate these with a dropdown or text field on Cards, but the classification rules must be manually recreated. We extract the full classification ruleset (app name, category label, URL pattern) as a structured CSV during export and deliver it as a manual-setup checklist for the customer's admin.

Time Champ

Report (Daily Timesheet, Attendance, Productivity)

maps to

Trello

Board Attachment or Power-Up

lossy
Fully supported

Time Champ Reports (Daily Timesheet, Monthly Attendance, App Usage, Productivity, Late Employees) are read-only aggregates generated at runtime from raw records. We do not migrate reports as static documents because they are derived and become stale immediately after migration. Instead, we extract the underlying raw data records (time entries, attendance, activity logs) and deliver them as structured exports so the customer can regenerate reports in Trello using Blue Cat Reports or a similar Power-Up.

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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Trello gotchas

High

Billing model uses maximum seat quantity at term midpoint

Medium

Custom Field data historically stored in pluginData

Medium

API rate limits are token-gated and can block bulk migration

Medium

Guest-to-paid seat conversion triggers on multi-board membership

Low

Automation command runs are capped per plan and overage triggers upgrade pressure

Pair-specific challenges

  • Time Champ has no documented public REST API

    Time Champ does not publish a public REST API for direct data extraction. Unlike HubSpot, Salesforce, or Trello (which has a well-documented REST and Power-Up API), Time Champ data must be exported through its admin dashboard interface or CSV export function. We work with the customer's Time Champ admin to extract data in bulk CSV format, validate field completeness during the profiling phase, and map CSV columns to Trello API field names. If dashboard exports are rate-limited or require per-user export actions, the migration timeline extends accordingly.

  • No monitoring-to-PM object equivalence

    Time Champ's core objects (Activity Logs, Screenshot captures, GPS tracks, Idle detection, Productivity scores) have no Trello equivalent. Trello is a task and project management tool — it does not track app usage, employee screens, location, or idle time. The migration is a reconstruction: we extract Users, Teams, and any project-linked Tasks, then decompose timesheets into time-entry blocks on Cards. Monitoring data is not migrated. We document this boundary clearly in the scope and flag it as a data-loss disclosure item for the customer.

  • Trello has no native time tracking without Power-Ups

    Time Champ's primary data output is time entries (auto-tracked duration per user per task). Trello does not include time tracking in its Standard plan — it requires the Time Tracking Power-Up ($5/month per Workspace) or a third-party integration. We write time entries as Card Comments or structured attachments by default. If the customer wants native time tracking, they must activate the Power-Up before migration, and we map entries to it via the Power-Up's data model. This is a configuration decision made during scoping, not a default migration path.

  • Trello Custom Fields are not free on all plan tiers

    Custom Fields on Trello Cards (used to represent Time Champ metadata like Productivity classification, Attendance status, or tracking mode) require a Power-Up on Free and Standard plans. The Custom Fields Power-Up is included with Trello Standard ($5/user/month) and Premium ($10/user/month). On Free Workspace plans, Custom Fields are not available without a separate Power-Up subscription. We check the customer's destination Trello plan during scoping and raise the Custom Fields availability gap as a pre-migration requirement if the plan does not include it.

  • Time Champ productivity classifications are tenant-specific with no universal mapping

    The Productive/Unproductive/Neutral app classification system is defined entirely by the customer's Time Champ admin settings — it is not a universal taxonomy. Trello has its own label and Custom Field model, but there is no standard semantic mapping between Time Champ classification labels and Trello labels. We extract the full classification ruleset (app name, URL pattern, classification label) as a structured CSV during export and deliver it as a manual-setup checklist. Every classification rule must be recreated manually in Trello Labels or Custom Fields after migration.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Time Champ to Trello data migration

  1. Discovery and plan scoping

    We audit the customer's Time Champ account across tier (Starter/Professional/Enterprise), user count, team count, active shifts, integration status (whether Time Champ is connected to Trello via the native integration), and data export capability. We also confirm the destination Trello Workspace plan (Free/Standard/Premium) and whether the Custom Fields Power-Up is available. The discovery output is a written migration scope that explicitly lists which Time Champ objects migrate, which do not, and which require manual setup in Trello after cutover.

  2. CSV export extraction and profiling

    Because Time Champ has no public REST API, we work with the customer's Time Champ admin to extract data via the dashboard's bulk export function. We extract Users (name, email, team assignment, tracking mode), Teams (name, member count, manager), Projects and Tasks from any active Trello integration, Timesheets and time entries, Attendance records, and Activity Logs. We profile each export for completeness, flag missing fields, and raise data gaps before mapping design begins. Screenshot export eligibility is checked at this stage for Professional-tier accounts.

  3. Trello Workspace and Board scaffolding

    We create the destination Trello Workspace structure to match the Time Champ team hierarchy. Each Time Champ Team becomes a Trello Workspace. We create Boards within each Workspace, configure default Lists (To Do, In Progress, Done or the customer's naming convention), and set Member access levels per Board. If the customer has an active Time Champ-Trello integration, we map existing Trello Boards and flag any Cards that will receive migrated time entry data. Custom Fields Power-Up is activated at the Workspace level if not already present.

  4. User and Member reconciliation

    We extract every Time Champ User email and match against the Trello Workspace Members list. Users who already have Trello accounts are mapped directly. Users who do not have Trello accounts are queued for invitation by the customer's Trello admin before Card assignment migration. Team membership in Time Champ translates to Trello Workspace membership with the appropriate role (Admin, Normal, or Guest) determined by the user's Time Champ license tier.

  5. Task and time entry migration

    We extract Tasks from the Time Champ-Trello integration (if active) or from any project-linked data in Time Champ, map them to Trello Cards in the correct Board and List, and assign them to the resolved Member. Time entries are decomposed into atomic records and written as Card Comments in a structured format (date, duration, user, task) or attached as structured JSON files. Attendance records and Activity Logs are exported as CSVs and attached at the Workspace level as archived reference data. Migration runs in dependency order: Members first, then Boards and Lists, then Cards, then time entry Comments or attachments.

  6. Cutover, validation, and manual-rebuild handoff

    We freeze Time Champ writes during the cutover window and run a final delta export of any records created or modified since the initial extraction. We validate Card counts, Member assignments, and time entry completeness against the discovery baseline. We deliver the manual-rebuild checklist: Productivity classification rules in Trello Labels or Custom Fields, Shift schedules in Trello Calendar Power-Up, Attendance tracking via Checklists or third-party Power-Ups, and any Trello Automations (Butler) to replace Time Champ shift-based alerts. We do not rebuild Time Champ workflows or alerts as Trello Automations inside the migration scope; that is a separate engagement.

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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Trello

Destination

Strengths

  • Generous free tier with unlimited users and 10 boards, the lowest barrier to entry among major project management tools.
  • Intuitive drag-and-drop Kanban interface requires no training or onboarding documentation.
  • Deep Atlassian integration with Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket for teams already in the ecosystem.
  • Built-in Butler automation covers rule-based triggers without requiring third-party integrations.
  • REST API with comprehensive documentation enables programmatic access to all core objects.

Weaknesses

  • Reporting and analytics are absent, with no built-in velocity tracking, burndown charts, or historical performance metrics.
  • The flat board/list/card data model scales poorly for complex projects requiring hierarchical task structures.
  • Customization is limited compared to platforms like Asana, monday.com, or Jira that offer richer field types and workflow configuration.
  • Advanced views (Timeline, Dashboard) require Premium and are not available on Standard, inflating total cost for teams needing visibility features.
  • Guest user billing rules are confusing and prone to accidental seat overages when guests join multiple boards.

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 Trello.

  • 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.

Estimator

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Most migrations land between two and three weeks for accounts under 500 users, 20 teams, and 3,000 tasks. Migrations with large historical timesheet exports (over 50,000 time entries), multiple Workspaces requiring separate Board imports, or complex member reconciliation across both platforms move to four to six weeks. The timeline depends heavily on how quickly the customer's Time Champ admin can complete dashboard CSV exports and whether the destination Trello Workspace is already set up.

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