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BetterContact to Intercom integration — real-time data sync

Keep BetterContact and Intercom 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 Intercom

Flow BetterContact data into Intercom 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 Intercom, so Intercom 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 Push product usage events from an application database into Intercom to trigger onboarding and retention messages
  • 04 Mirror conversations and tickets into a warehouse for support analytics and SLA reporting

Common sync patterns

Where BetterContact can store CRM context: fields kept current

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

Where BetterContact runs outreach

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

Where BetterContact supplies contact or company data

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

What you can sync between BetterContact and Intercom

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 Intercom objects How this pairing syncs
Company Company data returned with each contact: name, domain, HQ location, industry, employee count. Companies Company records group contacts and carry plan and account attributes used in segmentation. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in the writable direction.
Lead Finder Search Prospect discovery by people and company filters, returning enriched lead profiles. Tags Labels applied to contacts, companies, and conversations sync for routing and reporting. Lead Finder Search is specific to BetterContact and Tags to Intercom — 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. Segments Saved audience definitions are readable for targeting parity across tools. Enrichment Request is specific to BetterContact and Segments to Intercom — 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. Admins & Teams Teammate records map conversation ownership to CRM users. Enriched Contact is specific to BetterContact and Admins & Teams to Intercom — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between BetterContact and Intercom

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 Intercom 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 Intercom through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Intercom BetterContact Sub-second propagation

DetectionIntercom notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhook topic subscriptions for contact, company, and conversation events, plus polling for backfill.

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 Intercom records.

Rate-limit considerations

  • BetterContact: Batches capped at 100 contacts per enrichment request.
  • Intercom: Subject to per-app rate limits on the Intercom API.
What ships with BetterContact ⇄ Intercom

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

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

Real-time

Real-time sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever BetterContact or Intercom 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 Intercom record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your BetterContact ⇄ Intercom 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 Intercom.

How the BetterContact and Intercom 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.

Intercom

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 for public apps or a workspace access token
Change detection
Webhook topic subscriptions for contact, company, and conversation events, plus polling for backfill
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to per-app rate limits on the Intercom API
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the BetterContact and Intercom 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 ⇄ Intercom
    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 Intercom
    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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