Why the form captures a lead but the CRM loses its source fields in a small ecommerce store: a post-migration diagnostic
After a migration, a small ecommerce store needs a comparison that follows one record across the old and new paths. A clean before and after is more useful than a new dashboard.
Read the symptom
The form can send a value that the CRM overwrites, ignores, or maps to the wrong field. The problem is easier to find when the original payload and final record sit next to each other.
Inspect the path
- Capture the exact form payload for one test submission.
- Compare each source field with the CRM field that should receive it.
- Check for hidden field names that differ between forms.
- Look for workflow steps that overwrite the first source value.
After the migration
Keep one mapping table that names the source field, destination field, and owner. Keep the test result with the record it describes so the next review starts with evidence, not a guess.
If the next step is a shared source and outcome record, see LeadSheet.