Valentina Akpan: Founder, Rellatech. Admin and technical virtual assistant for businesses and startups with teams.
"Infusionsoft to Keap" is a confusing phrase because Infusionsoft already is Keap. It was rebranded to Keap Max Classic in 2019. What most people mean when they search this is: should I move from the old Max Classic platform to the newer, simpler Keap Pro product?
This is what actually happens in that migration, what does not, and how to decide whether to do it at all.
First: should you migrate?
Move to Keap Pro if:
- ●Your campaigns are mostly linear (welcome, nurture, post-purchase) and you do not use decision diamonds.
- ●You want pipeline, appointments, quotes, and invoices in one place without bolt-ons.
- ●Your team finds Max Classic intimidating and uses 10% of it.
Stay on Keap Max Classic if:
- ●You rely on multi-branch campaign logic, decision diamonds, or conditional goals.
- ●You have mature integrations through the legacy API.
- ●Your tag and campaign architecture took years to build and still works.
A migration is not a button. If you only need a cleaner interface, an audit and rebuild inside Max Classic is usually cheaper and lower risk than a full platform move.
What actually moves in a migration
Moves cleanly:
- ●Contacts and custom fields
- ●Tags (you should cut at least half on the way over)
- ●Companies
- ●Email broadcast history (as records, not as templates)
Does not move and needs a rebuild:
- ●Campaigns (the canvas does not exist in Pro the same way)
- ●Order forms and shopping cart
- ●Legacy email templates with HTML quirks
- ●Web form embeds (URLs change)
- ●Affiliate centre data
- ●Reports and saved searches
A realistic timeline
- ●Week 1 to 2: Audit. Inventory every campaign, tag, integration, and form. Decide what survives.
- ●Week 2 to 4: Rebuild the must-have automations in Keap Pro. Welcome, nurture, post-purchase, win-back.
- ●Week 4 to 6: Migrate contacts, tags, and custom fields. Test with a small segment first.
- ●Week 6 to 8: Re-wire integrations. Forms, calendar, payments, course platform.
- ●Week 8 to 10: Run both accounts in parallel for two weeks. Confirm nothing is broken with no alert before cancelling the old plan.
- ●Week 10 to 12: Decommission Max Classic, archive exports, train the team.
Smaller accounts compress this to three or four weeks. Anyone selling you a one-week migration is moving contacts and leaving the automation logic behind. This is the exact scope I cover as a Keap and Infusionsoft consultant.
What I usually catch on a Keap migration
- ●Duplicate contacts already in Max Classic. Dedupe before, not after.
- ●Tags applied by campaigns that no longer exist. Strip them or you will rebuild ghosts.
- ●Order forms tied to legacy product IDs. Map them deliberately, not in bulk.
- ●Email deliverability. A migration is a great moment to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC properly.
- ●Webhook URLs in Zapier, Make, or custom code. Every single one needs updating.
FAQ
Thinking about a migration?
Before you move anything, book a free consultation. I will look at your Max Classic account and tell you straight whether a migration is the right call, or whether an audit and rebuild inside Max Classic gets you the same result for less. See the full Keap & Infusionsoft Consultant service for scope.
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