Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Active Directory or NetSuite instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
Security and identity ⇄ ERP
Active Directory to NetSuite integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Active Directory and NetSuite 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 NetSuite
Keep the employee, group, and account records that NetSuite and Active Directory share aligned in real time, so a person added, moved, or offboarded in one system shows up correctly in the other within seconds.
An ERP and an identity system describe the same workforce from two angles. NetSuite holds the authoritative record of who works at the company, and often their department, title, manager, and cost center. Active Directory controls the accounts, groups, and access those same people use every day. When the two aren't connected, every hire, transfer, and departure has to be keyed twice, and the window between someone leaving in NetSuite and their account still being active in Active Directory is a real security exposure.
Stacksync syncs Price Level, Term, Subsidiary, All custom objects in NetSuite with Directory roles, Service principals & applications, Organizational units, Organizational contacts in Active Directory in real time, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of CSV exports and nightly jobs. A new hire, a department change, or a termination propagates within seconds, and where you want changes to flow both ways — the ERP's org data into the directory, account status back into the ERP — the same mapping handles it.
That matters most at offboarding and audit time. When the directory reflects the ERP's current headcount and org structure, disabling access no longer depends on someone remembering to update a second system, and access reviews start from a roster both sides already agree on.
Common use cases
- 01 Expose item and inventory data to internal applications through a continuously synced database table.
- 02 Mirror journal entries and transaction lines into a warehouse for financial reporting without CSV exports.
- 03 Two-way sync Users and Groups between Microsoft Entra ID and an HRIS or Postgres so joiners, movers, and leavers provision and deprovision automatically.
- 04 Read Users, Groups, and directoryRole assignments into a warehouse for periodic access reviews and SOC 2 audit evidence.
Common sync patterns
Create accounts from new records
A person added in one system gets a matching account or record in the other automatically, so a new hire can be granted access without anyone re-keying their details.
Disable access at offboarding
When a person is marked terminated or inactive in one system, the matching account is disabled in the other within seconds, closing the gap that leaves ex-employees with live access.
Keep profile attributes current
A name, email, title, manager, or department corrected in either system updates the other, so directory entries and employee records don't drift apart.
What you can sync between Active Directory and NetSuite
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 | NetSuite objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Service principals & applications App registrations and enterprise apps; read-mostly for entitlement and license inventory. | Accounting Period Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. | Service principals & applications is specific to Active Directory and Accounting Period to NetSuite — 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. | Bin Transfer Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. | Organizational units is specific to Active Directory and Bin Transfer to NetSuite — 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. | Currency Rate Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. | Organizational contacts is specific to Active Directory and Currency Rate to NetSuite — 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. | Price Level Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. | Users is specific to Active Directory and Price Level to NetSuite — 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. | Term Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. | Groups is specific to Active Directory and Term to NetSuite — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Group memberships Member and owner links between users and groups; membership add/remove changes are surfaced by delta query. | Subsidiary Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. | Group memberships is specific to Active Directory and Subsidiary to NetSuite — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Active Directory and NetSuite
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 NetSuite 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 NetSuite through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
NetSuite Active Directory Interval-based propagation
DetectionStacksync polls NetSuite for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on lastModifiedDate via SuiteQL or saved searches.
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.
- NetSuite: API concurrency is governed per account; sync tools queue and throttle requests.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ NetSuite
Connect Active Directory and NetSuite for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Active Directory–NetSuite connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory or NetSuite 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 NetSuite record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Active Directory ⇄ NetSuite 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 NetSuite.
How the Active Directory and NetSuite 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.
NetSuite
- Integration surface
- SuiteTalk REST and SOAP web services, plus SuiteQL queries
- Authentication
- Token-Based Authentication (TBA): enable REST Web Services (and SOAP Web Services) + Token-Based Authentication in NetSuite, create an integration record to get Consumer ID/Secret
- Change detection
- Polling on lastModifiedDate via SuiteQL or saved searches; no native webhooks without custom SuiteScript
- Capabilities
- read · write
- Rate limits
- API concurrency is governed per account; sync tools queue and throttle requests.
How it works
How to connect Active Directory to NetSuite — 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 NetSuite 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
connected
NetSuite
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Choose tables
Pick the Active Directory and NetSuite 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 ⇄ NetSuiteCustomers 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 NetSuiteCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Active Directory and NetSuite integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Active Directory and NetSuite: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Active Directory's Service principals & applications and Organizational units), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Stacksync pricing is usage-based and starts at $1,000/month, including the managed Active Directory and NetSuite connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Active Directory–NetSuite integration in-house.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Active Directory and NetSuite. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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Change detection on Active Directory: 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. On NetSuite: Polling on lastModifiedDate via SuiteQL or saved searches; no native webhooks without custom SuiteScript. Each detected change propagates to the other side in milliseconds, with field-level conflict resolution and an inspectable event log.
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On the NetSuite side: Price Level, Term, Subsidiary, All custom objects, plus custom fields where NetSuite exposes them. On the Active Directory side: Directory roles, Service principals & applications, Organizational units, Organizational contacts. Stacksync auto-detects both schemas and converts types between the two systems.
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Yes. Each object mapping can be bidirectional or restricted to a single direction (both systems accept writes). Read-only mirrors, one-way pushes, and full two-way sync can be mixed in the same integration.
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SSO & SCIM
Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.
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.
Secure connection options
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