AC&T Education Migration
When the vendor pulled the plug
AC&T Education Migration (actimmi.com) is an education agency in Australia. They help international students with applications to education providers and visas. They had been on a previous CRM until the vendor shut the system down, leaving nothing but a CSV export.
Whatever came next had to be something they could own.
“They did not want to learn someone else's system. They wanted to keep working the way they already did and make it smoother.”
Implementation
No more renting someone else's structure
They evaluated Salesforce, Zoho, Pipedrive, and SuiteCRM. Each came with the same tradeoffs: too expensive, too rigid, or too generic, and none fixed the underlying problem. They were still renting a structure they did not control.
Flycoder, a full-stack development partner, helped them set up Twenty as a self-hosted instance shaped around how AC&T actually operates. The data model centers on students, not a generic contact-and-deal pipeline. Statuses update automatically: a workflow runs nightly to keep enrollment records current. Automated email reminders cover important dates. Adding a new record takes under a minute.
The result is a system that fits how AC&T already worked, instead of the other way around.
Control
Control without the overhead
Self-hosted means AC&T carries no vendor risk: no pricing model that can change, no platform that can disappear, no forced migration. The system is theirs.
Because everything is built on Twenty's open foundation, Flycoder could wire the exact logic AC&T needed without fighting the platform.
The result
Costs down more than 90%
CRM costs dropped by more than 90%. Manual overhead tied to the old system is gone. For the first time, AC&T has a CRM they will not lose again.
They did not just replace a tool. They took back ownership of how their business runs.
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