--- title: "Sync Pipedrive and Front" description: "Sync Pipedrive and Front so shared-inbox conversations become CRM contacts, activities, and deals automatically, and replies stay logged in both, in real time." canonical: https://www.stacksync.com/blog/sync-pipedrive-and-front last_modified: 2026-07-21 --- # From Shared Inbox to Sales Pipeline: Front and Pipedrive A guide to syncing Front with Pipedrive so customer conversations in the shared inbox become CRM records automatically. It covers why connecting the inbox to the CRM matters, how a Front conversation flows into a Pipedrive contact, activity, and deal, how one CRM home can pull from Front and an ERP at once, and what actually syncs between the two, all in real time and over OAuth so no message data is stored in a middleman. Author Ruben Burdin · Founder & CEO Published July 21, 2026 Read time 7 min read ARTICLE Front is where a lot of customer conversation actually happens: the shared inbox the whole team answers from. Pipedrive is where the deals live. When the two are not connected, reps retype details from an email into the CRM by hand, or the context never makes it across, and Pipedrive stops reflecting what is really going on with the customer. Syncing Front and Pipedrive turns the inbox into a source for the CRM. A conversation becomes a contact, an activity, and, where it makes sense, a deal, without anyone copying and pasting. Here is how that flow works and what stays in step. ![From inbox to pipeline step by step: a Front message lands, the contact is matched in Pipedrive, a deal is created, and replies stay logged in both](https://www.stacksync.com/images/blog-highlights/pd-front-summary.webp) The engine that does this is the same one behind any Stacksync pairing; the broader guide to an [enterprise iPaaS for Pipedrive](https://www.stacksync.com/blog/enterprise-ipaas-pipedrive) covers it. Here we focus on the inbox-to-CRM case. ## Why connect your inbox to your CRM A rep working a deal in Pipedrive should be able to see that the customer emailed support twice this week, and a teammate answering in Front should be able to see that there is an open deal worth chasing. Neither is possible when the inbox and the CRM are separate islands. Connecting them means the conversation and the pipeline tell the same story. Sales context reaches the people answering the inbox, inbound interest reaches the people working the pipeline, and nobody is rebuilding the customer’s history by hand in two tools. ## How a conversation becomes a deal When a message lands in Front, the sync runs a short pipeline: it captures the conversation, matches or creates the person and organization in Pipedrive, turns the conversation into an activity and a deal, and then keeps replies and stage changes in step across both systems. ![From a Front message to a Pipedrive deal: message captured, contact matched, deal created, then replies and stage changes logged back to Front](https://www.stacksync.com/images/blog-diagrams/pd-front-concept.webp) *A Front conversation becomes a Pipedrive contact, activity, and deal, then stays in step both ways.* You set the rules: a conversation from an unknown sender can create a new person and deal, while one from a known contact attaches as an activity to the existing deal. Because origin tracking is built in, a reply logged into Pipedrive is not treated as a fresh inbound and bounced back to Front. ## One CRM home, many sources The inbox is rarely the only thing that should feed the CRM. The same engine can pull customer and invoice data from an ERP like NetSuite into the same Pipedrive, so sales works in one place while several systems keep it current. ![Front shared inbox and NetSuite both feeding Pipedrive through the Stacksync engine, which matches people and organizations and tracks origin](https://www.stacksync.com/images/blog-diagrams-mermaid/pd-front-topology.webp) *Front and an ERP can both feed one Pipedrive home, each on its own configuration.* That is what makes Pipedrive a real CRM home rather than just another inbox: it is fed by the conversations in Front and the financials in the ERP at once. The [Pipedrive and NetSuite](https://www.stacksync.com/blog/sync-pipedrive-with-netsuite) guide covers the ERP side of that same setup in detail. ## What syncs between Front and Pipedrive You choose the mapping, but a typical Front to Pipedrive setup keeps these in step. | Front | Pipedrive | Direction | | --- | --- | --- | | Contact | Person | Matched or created | | Conversation | Activity on a deal | Both ways | | New inbound | New deal (by rule) | Front to Pipedrive | | Reply sent | Logged note or activity | Both ways | | Assignee | Deal owner | Both ways | A typical Front to Pipedrive map. Conversations and replies stay in step both directions. ## Turn conversations into pipeline Syncing Front and Pipedrive means every customer conversation shows up where the deal lives, automatically and in real time, and replies stay logged in both. OAuth login keeps your message data out of any middleman, and the same engine can add the ERP as a second source whenever you want. To see Front conversations become Pipedrive contacts and deals live, [book a demo](https://www.stacksync.com/book-a-demo), or read the broader guide to an [enterprise iPaaS for Pipedrive](https://www.stacksync.com/blog/enterprise-ipaas-pipedrive). If Front is the side you are starting from, the guide to an [enterprise iPaaS for Front](https://www.stacksync.com/blog/enterprise-grade-ipaas-for-front) covers the same engine from the inbox out. FAQ ## Frequently asked questions Can I sync Front and Pipedrive? Yes. Connect Front and Pipedrive to Stacksync over OAuth and shared-inbox conversations become CRM records: the person and organization are matched or created in Pipedrive, and the conversation becomes an activity and, where you want it, a deal. Replies and stage changes then stay in step across both, in real time. Do Front conversations create Pipedrive deals automatically? They can. You decide the rule: every new conversation from an unknown contact can create a person and a deal, or conversations can attach as activities to existing deals. Either way the customer’s context lands in Pipedrive without a rep copying and pasting it. Does the sync work both ways? Yes. A reply sent from Front is logged against the Pipedrive record, and a stage or contact change made in Pipedrive is reflected back so the inbox and the CRM tell the same story. Origin tracking keeps a write on one side from bouncing back as a new change. Can I pull from Front and my ERP into Pipedrive at once? Yes. The same engine that brings Front conversations into Pipedrive can also bring customer and invoice data from an ERP like NetSuite into the same CRM. That is the point of one CRM home: sales works in Pipedrive while the inbox and the ERP both feed it, each configured on its own but running on one engine. Does Stacksync store my Front messages? No. Front and Pipedrive connect over OAuth, and Stacksync moves the data between them without keeping a copy in a middleman. With encryption in transit and an audit log, that is what lets the integration pass a security review. About the author Ruben Burdin Founder & CEO Ruben Burdin is the Founder and CEO of Stacksync, the first real-time and two-way sync for enterprise data at scale. Ruben is a Y Combinator alumni with a strong background in software engineering and business. [All posts by Ruben Burdin](https://www.stacksync.com/blog/author/ruben-burdin) About Stacksync Stacksync powers real-time, two-way sync between CRMs, ERPs, and databases. Engineers sync data at scale and automate workflows, not dirty API plumbing. 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