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Akeneo to Folk CRM integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Akeneo and Folk CRM 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 Akeneo and Folk CRM

Keep the customers and orders that Folk CRM and Akeneo share aligned in real time, so sales works from live purchase history and the store works from current account details.

Folk CRM holds the customer relationship: the contacts, accounts, and deals a go-to-market team works. Akeneo runs the buying side: who placed which order, what they bought, and where it ships. The two describe the same people and companies, and when they are connected only by exports, sales answers questions without recent orders in front of them while the store works from account details that changed weeks ago.

Stacksync links Groups, Custom fields, Notes, Reminders in Folk CRM to Product models, Categories, Attributes, Families and family variants in Akeneo with bi-directional, real-time sync. New customers, order activity, and corrected contact details move in whichever direction you configure, field by field, with conflicts resolved by rules you set. A record created or changed on either side shows up on the other within seconds, with no CSV exports and no nightly job.

The shared entity is the customer, matched on email or an external ID, so both systems agree on who the buyer is and the order history sits next to the relationship instead of in a separate tab.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync folk people and companies with a marketing or outbound tool so outreach lists stay current.
  • 02 Push enriched contact data from a data warehouse into folk custom fields.
  • 03 Write Categories, Families, and Attributes from an ERP or supplier feed into Akeneo to build and maintain catalog structure.
  • 04 Read Reference entities records such as brands and manufacturers into a data warehouse for cross-catalog reporting.

Common sync patterns

New buyers become CRM records

A customer created in Akeneo creates or updates the matching contact or account in Folk CRM, so first-time and repeat buyers land in the relationship system without a manual import.

Contact and address details stay consistent

An email, phone, or shipping and billing address corrected in either system updates the other, so the next order and the next outreach both use current information.

Where Folk CRM segments customers: status travels to the store record

Lifecycle stage, tier, or account owner set in Folk CRM syncs onto the customer record in Akeneo, so the buying side can act on how the relationship is classified.

What you can sync between Akeneo and Folk CRM

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.

Akeneo objects Folk CRM objects How this pairing syncs
Channels and locales Target-market settings that scope attribute values; read to resolve which localized or channel-specific value to map on each side of a sync. Reminders Follow-up items that can be created from external triggers. Channels and locales is specific to Akeneo and Reminders to Folk CRM — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Media files Product images and files uploaded via the media endpoint; referenced by products and pushed to downstream commerce and content systems. People Contact records; the primary entity synced with outreach and enrichment tools. Media files is specific to Akeneo and People to Folk CRM — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Products Core catalog records addressed by UUID (recommended) or identifier/SKU; synced two-way with databases, ERPs, and storefronts. Values are scoped per channel and locale. Companies Organization records linked to people and kept aligned with billing or CS systems. Products is specific to Akeneo and Companies to Folk CRM — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Product models Parent records for configurable products; hold shared attribute values that cascade to their variant products, synced alongside Products. Groups Shared workspaces that organize contacts; group membership is often the field integrations act on. Product models is specific to Akeneo and Groups to Folk CRM — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Categories The category tree used to classify products; read out for storefront navigation or written in from an ERP to seed catalog structure. Custom fields Group-scoped attributes that receive enriched or computed values from external systems. Categories is specific to Akeneo and Custom fields to Folk CRM — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Attributes Attribute definitions plus attribute options and groups; describe the shape of product data, usually mastered in Akeneo and read downstream. Notes Free-text context attached to people and companies, readable for reporting. Attributes is specific to Akeneo and Notes to Folk CRM — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Akeneo and Folk CRM

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.

Akeneo Folk CRM Sub-second propagation

DetectionAkeneo notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Events API webhooks (product.created, product.updated, product.deleted, plus product-model equivalents.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Folk CRM through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Folk CRM Akeneo Sub-second propagation

DetectionFolk CRM notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling of list endpoints as a fallback.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Akeneo through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Akeneo: REST protection triggers above roughly 100 requests/second per PIM instance (HTTP 429 with Retry-After); the Events API caps at 4000 requests/hour with a 500ms webhook ack timeout.
  • Folk CRM: Subject to the platform's API rate limits.
What ships with Akeneo ⇄ Folk CRM

Connect Akeneo and Folk CRM for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Akeneo–Folk CRM connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Akeneo or Folk CRM instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Akeneo or Folk CRM 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 Akeneo or Folk CRM record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Akeneo ⇄ Folk CRM sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Akeneo and Folk CRM.

How the Akeneo and Folk CRM connectors work

Akeneo

Integration surface
REST API (plus a GraphQL API) and an Events API for webhooks
Authentication
OAuth2 password grant: client_id/secret plus an API user's username/password exchanged at /api/oauth/v1/token for a bearer access_token and refresh_token; Apps use the OAuth2 authorization-code flow
Change detection
Events API webhooks (product.created, product.updated, product.deleted, plus product-model equivalents; product.updated.delta carries old and new values); falls back to polling the 'updated' datetime search filter where the Events API is unavailable
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
REST protection triggers above roughly 100 requests/second per PIM instance (HTTP 429 with Retry-After); the Events API caps at 4000 requests/hour with a 500ms webhook ack timeout.

Folk CRM

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key (Bearer token)
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling of list endpoints as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits
How it works

How to connect Akeneo to Folk CRM — 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.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Akeneo and Folk CRM with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Akeneo connected
    Folk CRM connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Akeneo and Folk CRM 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.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Akeneo ⇄ Folk CRM
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Akeneo Folk CRM
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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