What are my options for
converting Copper to Pipedrive ?
If the title resonates with you, you are most likely already working with Copper and are thinking about changing it. Here you may find detailed information about supported items for the automatic switch, step-by-step instructions for transferring Copper to Pipedrive using Trujay, and more.
You can choose the most comfortable option for you based on your time and financial constraints. Here are three ways:
- Migrating myself
- A wizard import tool or an integration
- A custom migration
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Option 1
Migrating myself
If you are downloading regular contacts or accounts, you can cope on your own or use the vendor's services. However, not everything is so simple. Vendors are interested in quick migration, and therefore will devote less time to your company, it can be expensive and not so high-quality.
Option 1: Migrating myself and using the CRM vendor’s import tool
Any company in the process of work accumulates a large database of customers, contacts, accounts and other information important for business. On your own, you can only transfer basic data from Copper CRM, nothing more. This is a complex and lengthy process. Too often have we seen customers who purchased the new solution and has tried to manage the import on their own, use the CRM vendor's “native” tools and have ultimately just ended up with a mess, three months down the road with half of the data in and the rest left in pieces. Before you purchase your CRM solution, you need to feel comfortable with a plan, a partner, or the tools in place in order to move forward.
Pro
BUT! This option is free and if that is important to you and you are okay with not importing activities and the rest, it is zero costs and the timeline is your own. This without a doubt is a major perk.
Con
The downside of this, other than bringing in the rest of your data, is you will be working with files of data, so make sure you know what you’re doing and feel comfortable that you are not jeopardizing the integrity of the data. Deleting rows of fields can get hairy, especially if there was something there your team needed or will need in the future, so make sure you always have them highlight what’s important to maintain.
Option 2: Migrating with a wizard import tool or an integration tool
There are a few data migration tools out there on the market that provide direct API to API migration functionality. One of the good solutions is ready-made software for high-quality data transfer between CRM systems. The service transfers data from Copper CRM to another in a couple of hours. Does not require technical knowledge. The result of the work is a quick migration of data to a new CRM. Products, leads, deals, events and other data will be transferred from your old CRM to Pipedrive without difficulty.
The data migration wizards on the market built just for data migration purposes are what you should consider in our opinion, as they will be simpler and more straightforward. The main differentiator with these tools you need to look out for, are some will require you to create all the custom fields one by one, which is half the migration and a lot of work/hours. Others, the tool is robust enough to create the custom fields for your, saving you a tremendous amount of time and a lot more valuable. Make sure to check..
Trujay offers a data migration wizard app as well as guided support to ensure that your mapping, testing, QA, and delta migration go smoothly. It will make your Copper to Pipedrive data migration much easier.
Trujay’s migration app allows you to run as many free random samples as you want. The goal is to keep experimenting with the mapping until the sample data appears exactly as you want it to. Every sample you run will overwrite the previous one, so don't worry about filling up your Pipedrive with sample data.
Free Sample Migration Demo Video
Pro
This option is still a level of DIY, which makes it a lower cost and the timeline is your own. Plus most of the Copper to Pipedrive migration tools are connected to almost all of the standard objects you would want to migrate (emails, attachments, notes, products, calls, etc.)
Con
With doing it yourself, you will not have guidance. You’re moving into a new system here and re-design, starting fresh, understanding the logic/ functionality of the new system will not be here to aid you. Check to see if there is a level of professional services support to help you if you get stuck.
Step by Step screens of Trujay’s Self Service Migration Wizard
Option 3: A custom migration
So this is the option that defines “doing it the right way.” Among our clients, there is no one who would regret switching to Pipedrive, this is a specialized trading CRM system with wide functionality, a clear interface, and cool integrations. At very affordable rates. We have developed mechanisms that will make the transition quick, comfortable and safe. You can do it without involving programmers, if anything, our cool technical support is in touch.
With a custom migration, you may have a CRM implementation partner who has integrated this into their overall onboarding strategy with you. This option, in our opinion, is the most valuable because attempting to adopt Pipedrive on your own and not optimizing all of its features can slow down the investment you are making. Time to value with your Pipedrive investment is critical if your true business ambition is growth.
Having a project manager or CSM guide you through the entire Copper to Pipedrive migration process gives you time to consider things like fields/properties clean up, consolidation of pipelines or processes, automations, etc. An entrepreneur is always looking for the best options, changing a CRM system can be easier than endlessly “finishing” the one that is, putting up with inconvenience and unjustified costs for its maintenance.
Pro
A custom migration allows you to truly customize: filter, move objects to different objects, merge data, de-duplicate, etc. The burden of the migration and integrity of the data will remain intact and not opened up to risk as the data migration partner will/should be data experts. Some businesses can get caught up in migrating their own data for 6 months! You can find a data migration partner who can do it in 2-4 weeks, depending on your complexity.
Con
This option will cost more as you are paying for professional services. To thwart this, find a data migration partner who uses their own tools to automate a lot of the migration, therefor will have lower costs, lower human effort.
FAQs
Knowledge Base
What is a Sample Migration?
Sample Migration is a process where we transfer a small part of your records (approximately 10% of all data) to the target CRM platform and estimate the price of a Full Data Migration. You can test our service using the Free Sample Import.
You can change options and rerun the sample migration as many times as you need.
How does Free Sample work?
During the Sample Migration, we take a part of your records and migrate them to your target CRM platform, along with relations between those records. The entire process may take up to 15 minutes; it depends on the specification of your CRMs.
What happens after the Sample Migration is complete?
Once complete, you can review the transferred records in the target platform. Evaluate the results to make sure they work for you.
What is a Guided Migration?
A guided migration provides you with a Trujay dedicated CSM that will complete all the mappings for you.
This is an excellent option for people that need an extra layer of support with their migration.
Included:
- Everything in Wizard
- Customer Success Manager
- Mapping Verification
- Quality Assurance
- 1 - 2 Week Delivery
What is a Record?
A Record is the data item that exists in the CRM's system
- 1 record = 1 Account/Task/Opportunity/Attachment/Note/Email, etc.
- 1 record = one entity of CRM data (no matter what type is it).
For example:
Your current CRM possesses:
- 1 account
- 2 tasks
- 3 emails
- 2 notes.
In summary you have 1 account + 2 tasks + 3 emails + 2 notes = 8 records.
What is a Delta Migration?
A delta migration is the final migration performed during your custom migration process.
It ensures that all the data you have requested to be migrated is transferred and your target CRM is up to date right before the launch.
You can clean up the data yourself in the Copper portal. This will require some effort and time on your side, however it will have no additional cost.
You can ask the data migration partner to filter the data on the way over. If you have identified bad data and can give the partner bullet points on what data you don’t want to migrate to Pipedrive, they can write custom scripts to only migrate what you specify.
You can clean the data post-migration and should be relatively easy with Pipedrive’s segmenting tools. Create the filters or custom views and then delete!
What are my options?
Copper to Pipedrive: Objects
Copper Objects | Pipedrive Objects | |
Companies | ➜ | Organizations |
Files | ➜ | Files |
Activities (Phone Calls) | ➜ | Activities (Calls) |
People | ➜ | People |
Leads | ➜ | Leads |
Activities (Meetings) | ➜ | Activities (Meetings) |
Notes | ➜ | Notes |
Opportunities | ➜ | Deals |
Tags | ➜ | Labels |
Tasks, Activities (To Dos etc) | Activities (Tasks, Deadlines, Emails, Lunches etc) | |
Users | ➜ | Users |
Additional objects will need to be investigated for a Custom Migration
De-Duplicating
There are several de-duplication tools on the market to consider and all of them are low costs. Most likely the data migration partner has relationships installed and can get the prices at a discount for you, make sure to ask.
Bad or Outdated Contacts
Using a tool like Neverbounce is great to identify which emails are invalid, unverified, or a catch-all email (hello@trujay.com or support@trujay.com). From there you can mark and remove those and these costs are pretty minimal as well.
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“Great experience for a migration which use to keep me up at night”
“A migration between CRMs is a very painful process, you want to make sure that your sales teams are not going to lose critical information in the process badly affecting their results. With Trujay I planned the migration myself and they were ready to help me when I couldn't figures some parts out myself.“
Alexandre Gaudelet
- CEO at Hospitality Firm
You have options
To wrap up
So, your choice depends only on you.
This article we went over your options to consider as every business is unique. You might have resources with bandwidth, you might not. You might have resources you can trust the weight of the entire company’s data on to execute the process seamlessly and without data loss, you might not. Hopefully we covered enough options where you will be able to lock a plan into place before you move forward with the CRM vendor of your choosing.
If you ever would like to discuss your conversion between Copper to Pipedrive, please feel free to contact us here for a quick call.