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Atlassian to Namely integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Atlassian and Namely 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 Atlassian and Namely

Keep the people, teams, and status that Atlassian and Namely share aligned in real time, so a hire, role change, or departure recorded in one reaches the other within seconds.

Each tool in Atlassian keeps its own list of who can use it: users, members, or agents, along with the team they sit on and whether they are still active. Namely is the authoritative record of the same people as employees, with their department, manager, and employment status. When those two are connected only by manual account admin or a periodic export, the work tools drift: new hires wait days for access, team and manager changes never catch up, and people who have left keep standing accounts.

Stacksync syncs Jira Issues, Jira Projects, Boards and Sprints, Issue Comments in Atlassian with Events, Profiles, Job Titles, Job Tiers in Namely bi-directionally and in real time. A person added, moved, or offboarded in Namely creates or updates the matching user in Atlassian within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of spreadsheets and one-off account changes. Where Atlassian captures details of its own, such as a corrected contact or a login identity, those can flow back to Namely in whichever direction you configure.

Because the sync is field-level, each system keeps its own extras; only the shared facts, who a person is, which team they belong to, and whether their access should be on, are held in agreement.

Common use cases

  • 01 Mirror Jira projects into a SQL database for engineering throughput and SLA reporting.
  • 02 Create Jira issues from records in other systems, such as onboarding tasks generated from a closed-won CRM deal.
  • 03 Push Groups and Teams (departments, locations, team categories) into downstream apps to keep org structure and reporting lines aligned.
  • 04 Feed Namely Reports as JSON into a database on a schedule for roster, turnover, and diversity dashboards without manual CSV exports.

Common sync patterns

One employee directory

A person's name, title, contact details, or status corrected in either system updates the other, so both sides stop maintaining separate copies of the same person.

Org and team structure kept current

Department, team, and reporting-line changes from Namely keep the groups, queues, or projects in Atlassian assigned to the right people.

Where Atlassian routes or assigns work by person: assignments follow the org

When someone changes teams or managers in Namely, the queues, ownership, or approvals in Atlassian update to match, so work reaches whoever holds the role now.

What you can sync between Atlassian and Namely

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.

Atlassian objects Namely objects How this pairing syncs
Issue Comments Threaded discussion synced into linked tickets in external systems. Events Home-feed items such as announcements, birthdays, anniversaries, and new arrivals; typically read-only into comms tools. Issue Comments is specific to Atlassian and Events to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Attachments Files on issues mirrored to paired records where needed. Profiles The core employee record (personal, job, contact, and compensation fields); synced two-way via GET/POST/PUT with updated_at driving incremental polling. Attachments is specific to Atlassian and Profiles to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Custom Fields Instance-specific fields (customfield IDs) that carry most business-specific data in syncs. Job Titles Job title definitions; read and written so titles stay aligned with an HRIS, directory, or reporting dimension. Custom Fields is specific to Atlassian and Job Titles to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Workflows and Statuses Status transitions mapped to stages in the paired system. Job Tiers Leveling hierarchy grouping zero-to-many Job Titles; read to map seniority into warehouse dimension tables. Workflows and Statuses is specific to Atlassian and Job Tiers to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Users and Groups Assignees and reporters matched to identities in other tools. Groups Departments and locations that organize Profiles; synced to keep org structure aligned with a warehouse or IdP. Users and Groups is specific to Atlassian and Groups to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Confluence Pages Documentation content readable and writable through the Confluence REST API. Teams Teams and team categories a Profile belongs to; read and written for org-chart and provisioning workflows. Confluence Pages is specific to Atlassian and Teams to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Atlassian and Namely

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.

Atlassian Namely Sub-second propagation

DetectionAtlassian notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks on issue and page events, plus JQL polling on the updated timestamp for backfill.

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

Namely Atlassian Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Namely for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No webhooks.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Namely: Namely's public docs do not publish a fixed request quota; the REST API returns standard HTTP status codes, so integrations should throttle and back off on 429/5xx responses.
What ships with Atlassian ⇄ Namely

Connect Atlassian and Namely for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Atlassian–Namely connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Atlassian or Namely instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Atlassian or Namely 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 Atlassian or Namely record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Atlassian ⇄ Namely sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Atlassian and Namely.

How the Atlassian and Namely connectors work

Atlassian

Integration surface
REST APIs per product (Jira Cloud and Confluence Cloud)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 (3LO) for apps or API tokens with basic auth for scripts
Change detection
Webhooks on issue and page events, plus JQL polling on the updated timestamp for backfill
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks

Namely

Integration surface
REST API (JSON over HTTPS)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 authorization-code grant, or a personal access token sent as a Bearer token; all calls run over HTTPS against https://{subdomain}.namely.com/api/v1
Change detection
No webhooks; integrations poll GET endpoints and compare the updated_at / created_at timestamps on Profiles and related objects to detect changes
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Namely's public docs do not publish a fixed request quota; the REST API returns standard HTTP status codes, so integrations should throttle and back off on 429/5xx responses.
How it works

How to connect Atlassian to Namely — 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 Atlassian and Namely 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
    Atlassian connected
    Namely connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Atlassian and Namely 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 · Atlassian ⇄ Namely
    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
    Atlassian Namely
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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:

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