Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Active Directory or Insightly instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
Security and identity ⇄ CRM
Active Directory to Insightly integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Active Directory and Insightly in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.
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Why teams connect Active Directory and Insightly
Keep the people Insightly and Active Directory both track in agreement in real time: the internal users who own records in Insightly, and the customer login accounts in Active Directory.
A CRM and an identity system usually describe different populations. Insightly tracks customers, contacts, and the deals in motion; Active Directory governs who is allowed to sign in and what they can reach. Where the two meet is people. The reps who own records in Insightly are the same employees Active Directory provisions and disables, and when Active Directory also runs the login accounts for your product, the customers in Insightly are the same users Active Directory authenticates. Left unconnected, a departure in Active Directory leaves stale ownership sitting in Insightly, and a signup in Active Directory never reaches the account it belongs to.
Stacksync syncs Custom Fields, Contacts, Organizations, Leads in Insightly with Groups, Group memberships, Devices, Directory roles in Active Directory in real time and in both directions, matching on email or an external ID and mapping field by field. You decide which system owns which fields, and new users, role and group changes, deactivations, and account status move within seconds instead of waiting on a quarterly access review or a manual export.
Common use cases
- 01 Deduplicate and align customer records between Insightly and an ERP or invoicing system
- 02 Two-way sync of Insightly contacts and organizations with a marketing automation platform
- 03 Keep security-group memberships aligned with application entitlement tables so access reflects the right teams as they change.
- 04 Read Devices and service principals into a database for identity, asset, and license inventory across the tenant.
Common sync patterns
Group and entitlement membership as CRM fields
Membership of a directory group or an entitlement in Active Directory maps to fields in Insightly, such as product tier, plan, or internal team, so segmentation reflects real access rather than a manual guess.
Where a closed deal should provision access: Insightly drives Active Directory
A won or activated customer in Insightly can create or update the corresponding user or account in Active Directory, so provisioning starts from the CRM record instead of a separate ticket.
Where Active Directory governs your workforce: CRM users kept current
New employees in Active Directory become active users in Insightly with the right role, and group or department changes update their access and team, so the CRM's user list matches the directory without an admin re-keying it.
What you can sync between Active Directory and Insightly
Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.
| Active Directory objects | Insightly objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Directory roles Admin role assignments (directoryRole); read for access reviews and least-privilege governance. | Leads Unqualified prospects sync in from forms and enrichment sources before conversion. | Directory roles is specific to Active Directory and Leads to Insightly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Service principals & applications App registrations and enterprise apps; read-mostly for entitlement and license inventory. | Opportunities Pipeline records feed forecasting and warehouse-based reporting. | Service principals & applications is specific to Active Directory and Opportunities to Insightly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Organizational units On-prem AD DS containers (LDAP organizationalUnit) used to scope which users and groups a sync includes. | Projects Delivery records created from won opportunities sync with PSA and task tools. | Organizational units is specific to Active Directory and Projects to Insightly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Organizational contacts Directory contact objects (orgContact); synced for shared address-book and CRM person records. | Tasks Activity records keep follow-ups consistent across systems. | Organizational contacts is specific to Active Directory and Tasks to Insightly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Users User accounts in Entra ID and on-prem AD DS; synced two-way to create, update attributes, and enable or disable accounts. | Events Calendar items sync for a complete activity timeline. | Users is specific to Active Directory and Events to Insightly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Groups Security and Microsoft 365 groups; synced two-way including name, type, and owner, with membership tracked separately. | Notes Free-text context attaches to synced records for downstream visibility. | Groups is specific to Active Directory and Notes to Insightly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Active Directory and Insightly
Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.
Active Directory Insightly Sub-second propagation
DetectionActive Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Insightly through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Insightly Active Directory Interval-based propagation
DetectionStacksync polls Insightly for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on record updated-date fields.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Active Directory: Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.
- Insightly: Daily API request caps vary by Insightly plan.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ Insightly
Connect Active Directory and Insightly for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Active Directory–Insightly connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory or Insightly data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.
At scale
Event queues
Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Active Directory or Insightly record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Active Directory ⇄ Insightly sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Active Directory and Insightly.
How the Active Directory and Insightly connectors work
Active Directory
- Integration surface
- Microsoft Graph REST API (Entra ID / cloud) and LDAP/LDAPS (on-premises AD DS)
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform — an app registration with application or delegated permissions (e.g. User.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All) and admin consent; on-prem AD DS uses a bound service account over LDAPS.
- Change detection
- Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers; on-prem AD DS uses the DirSync control and uSNChanged polling.
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.
Insightly
- Integration surface
- REST API (versioned)
- Authentication
- API key sent via HTTP Basic authentication
- Change detection
- Polling on record updated-date fields
- Capabilities
- read · write
- Rate limits
- Daily API request caps vary by Insightly plan
How it works
How to connect Active Directory to Insightly — three steps, no code
Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Active Directory and Insightly with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
Active Directory
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Insightly
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Choose tables
Pick the Active Directory and Insightly objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.
objects · Active Directory ⇄ InsightlyCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Active Directory InsightlyCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Active Directory and Insightly integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Active Directory and Insightly: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Active Directory's Directory roles and Service principals & applications), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Common patterns for Active Directory and Insightly: Group and entitlement membership as CRM fields; Where a closed deal should provision access: Insightly drives Active Directory; Where Active Directory governs your workforce: CRM users kept current. Membership of a directory group or an entitlement in Active Directory maps to fields in Insightly, such as product tier, plan, or internal team, so segmentation reflects real access rather than a manual guess.
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Active Directory: Microsoft Graph REST API (Entra ID / cloud) and LDAP/LDAPS (on-premises AD DS). Authentication: OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform — an app registration with application or delegated permissions (e.g. User.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All) and admin consent; on-prem AD DS uses a bound service account over LDAPS. Insightly: REST API (versioned). Authentication: API key sent via HTTP Basic authentication. Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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Insightly: Most core objects support custom fields, which is the standard place to land externally sourced data during syncs. Active Directory: Microsoft Graph delta tokens for directory objects expire after about seven days; a sync paused longer must reinitialize with a full read. Stacksync's field mapping accounts for these differences between Active Directory and Insightly without custom code.
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Stacksync is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified with HIPAA BAA support. Data is encrypted in transit, and a zero-persistent-storage architecture means Active Directory and Insightly records are not retained after a sync operation.
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Stacksync pricing is usage-based and starts at $1,000/month, including the managed Active Directory and Insightly connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Active Directory–Insightly integration in-house.
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SSO & SCIM
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Alerts
Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.
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