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BetterContact to Drift integration — real-time data sync

Keep BetterContact and Drift 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 BetterContact and Drift

Flow BetterContact data into Drift in real time — no exports, no schedulers, no custom scripts.

BetterContact is a read-only source: Stacksync reads its data in real time and delivers it into Drift, so Drift always reflects the current state of BetterContact — without exports, scripts, or schedulers.

The CRM is supposed to be the record of every customer relationship, but customer-relevant information also accumulates in the other tools a team runs. Whatever BetterContact holds or produces that touches a customer, whether conversations, payments, replies, enriched data, or notes, the CRM only benefits if it arrives without someone copying it over.

Common use cases

  • 01 Backfill a warehouse of contacts with waterfall enrichment across 20+ data providers.
  • 02 Feed outbound sequencing tools with verified contact data before campaigns launch.
  • 03 Archive historical Drift conversation and contact data into a warehouse ahead of a platform migration.
  • 04 Sync Drift-captured contacts into the CRM so chat-sourced leads enter standard sales workflows immediately.

Common sync patterns

Where BetterContact can store CRM context: fields kept current

Owner, lifecycle stage, or account details from Drift sync into BetterContact, so people working there have the context without switching tools.

Where BetterContact runs outreach

Prospects, sends, and replies sync into Drift, keeping lead status current without manual imports.

Where BetterContact supplies contact or company data

Enriched fields land directly on records in Drift, and refreshes keep them from going stale.

What you can sync between BetterContact and Drift

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.

BetterContact objects Drift objects How this pairing syncs
Company Company data returned with each contact: name, domain, HQ location, industry, employee count. Playbooks Bot flows that generate conversations and qualify visitors. Company is specific to BetterContact and Playbooks to Drift — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Lead Finder Search Prospect discovery by people and company filters, returning enriched lead profiles. Meetings Meetings booked through Drift, synced to CRM as sales activities. Lead Finder Search is specific to BetterContact and Meetings to Drift — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Enrichment Request Batch or single submissions of up to 100 contacts per request for waterfall enrichment. Contacts Visitor and lead records created or matched from chat identities; the main CRM-sync object. Enrichment Request is specific to BetterContact and Contacts to Drift — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Enriched Contact Verified work emails and mobile numbers with job title, LinkedIn profile, location, and skills. Conversations Chat threads with status and participants; the center of Drift's data model. Enriched Contact is specific to BetterContact and Conversations to Drift — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between BetterContact and Drift

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.

BetterContact Drift Sub-second propagation

DetectionBetterContact notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Job-based delivery — enrichment results arrive by webhook push or polling of the results endpoint.

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

Drift BetterContact Sub-second propagation

DetectionDrift notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhook events for new conversations, messages, and contact changes.

DeliveryBetterContact does not accept inbound record writes, so this direction carries requests rather than records: BetterContact's output flows back as field updates on the originating Drift records.

Rate-limit considerations

  • BetterContact: Batches capped at 100 contacts per enrichment request.
  • Drift: Subject to the platform's API rate limits.
What ships with BetterContact ⇄ Drift

Connect BetterContact and Drift for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Real-time sync

Changes in BetterContact or Drift instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever BetterContact or Drift 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 BetterContact or Drift record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between BetterContact and Drift.

How the BetterContact and Drift connectors work

BetterContact

Integration surface
Asynchronous REST API: submit contacts, then receive results via webhook or fetch them from a results endpoint
Authentication
API key
Change detection
Job-based delivery — enrichment results arrive by webhook push or polling of the results endpoint; there is no persistent record store to watch
Capabilities
read · webhooks
Rate limits
Batches capped at 100 contacts per enrichment request.

Drift

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via apps registered on the Drift developer platform
Change detection
Webhook events for new conversations, messages, and contact changes; polling for backfills
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the BetterContact and Drift 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 · BetterContact ⇄ Drift
    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
    BetterContact Drift
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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

Securely connects to your systems with:

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

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