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Brightpearl to Demandbase integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Brightpearl and Demandbase 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 Brightpearl and Demandbase

Feed the real customer, order, and revenue records from Brightpearl into Demandbase so campaigns run on who actually bought what, and let contact and consent changes flow back in real time.

Marketing runs on lists of people, but the list rarely knows which of those people are paying customers, what they ordered, or what they are worth. Brightpearl holds exactly that: Purchase orders, Contacts, Inventory and warehouses, Goods-out notes that record who the customer is, what they bought, and what they owe. When the two are joined only by a periodic export, campaigns go out against stale audiences, existing customers get prospecting emails, high-value accounts look the same as cold leads, and a canceled order still counts toward a segment.

Stacksync syncs Purchase orders, Contacts, Inventory and warehouses, Goods-out notes in Brightpearl with Opportunities, People (Persons), Activities, Campaigns in Demandbase in real time, and where both sides accept writes, in both directions. Customer, order, and invoice data maps field by field onto the contacts, audiences, or accounts Demandbase works with, so segmentation and personalization run on current purchase history instead of a month-old snapshot. Contact details and consent changes that originate in Demandbase flow back onto the record in Brightpearl.

The strongest bridge between the two is identity and purchase history, who the customer is and what they have bought, so that is where most of the value sits. Because the sync is field-level, each system keeps the attributes the other has no use for; only the shared records are held in agreement.

Common use cases

  • 01 Keep the product catalog aligned between Brightpearl and e-commerce channels, including price list changes.
  • 02 Land order and margin data in a warehouse for retail performance reporting.
  • 03 Sync Opportunities and Activities two-way so CRM deal and engagement data flows into Demandbase reporting and Demandbase-calculated insights flow back to the warehouse.
  • 04 Subscribe to Demandbase company and person change webhooks - firmographic updates, M&A, and leadership or employment changes - and land them in an operational store for real-time account alerts.

Common sync patterns

Where Demandbase captures new people: signups become customer records

Registrations, form fills, or new subscribers in Demandbase create or update the corresponding record in Brightpearl, so the back office sees them without anyone re-keying.

Consent and contact changes travel

Email, address, or subscription-status changes stay aligned across both systems, so a customer who updates their details or opts out is respected everywhere.

Purchase history drives segmentation

Orders, invoices, and revenue totals from Brightpearl land on the matching contact or account in Demandbase, so audiences are built from what customers actually bought and spent rather than from guesses.

What you can sync between Brightpearl and Demandbase

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.

Brightpearl objects Demandbase objects How this pairing syncs
Inventory and warehouses On-hand and allocated stock by warehouse, read for availability publishing. People (Persons) Contact/person records with verified business email, title, seniority, and quality grades; fetched and matched via the B2B Contact endpoints and exported or imported. Inventory and warehouses is specific to Brightpearl and People (Persons) to Demandbase — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Goods-out notes Fulfillment documents that carry picking and shipping status back to order sources. Activities Engagement and custom activity records (web, campaign, intent); exported via Data Export and pushed in through the Data Import API using custom activity types. Goods-out notes is specific to Brightpearl and Activities to Demandbase — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Invoices and payments Financial documents synced to accounting platforms for reconciliation. Campaigns Marketing campaign records and creative assets exported through the Data Export API; read-only reporting feed. Invoices and payments is specific to Brightpearl and Campaigns to Demandbase — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Custom fields Per-object custom attributes included in field mappings. Account & Person Lists (Audiences) Named account and person segments exported via Data Export; custom audiences pushed into Demandbase through the Data Import API. Read and write. Custom fields is specific to Brightpearl and Account & Person Lists (Audiences) to Demandbase — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Products SKU records with variants and price lists, synced with e-commerce and ERP catalogs. Company Details (B2B enrichment) Firmographics, technographics, competitors, and corporate family tree fetched by domain or name via the B2B Company Search and Details endpoints; read-only enrichment. Products is specific to Brightpearl and Company Details (B2B enrichment) to Demandbase — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Sales orders Orders from all channels; the central object for fulfillment and revenue syncs. Change Subscriptions Company firmographic, company news, family-tree (ownership), and DB person employment subscriptions delivered as webhook alerts with a signing secret; the real-time change feed. Sales orders is specific to Brightpearl and Change Subscriptions to Demandbase — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Brightpearl and Demandbase

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.

Brightpearl Demandbase Sub-second propagation

DetectionBrightpearl notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks for object created/updated events, with resource search polling as a fallback.

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

Demandbase Brightpearl Sub-second propagation

DetectionDemandbase notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Subscription API webhooks - company firmographic, company news, family-tree (ownership), and person employment-change alerts to a configurable URL.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Brightpearl: Requests are throttled per account under Brightpearl's API usage policies; bulk operations should use batch endpoints.
  • Demandbase: Credit-based per API call; bulk jobs accept up to 10,000 records per submission, CSV uploads up to 5GB, and result URLs stay valid 24 hours; subscription alerts page up to 5,000 entities and list endpoints up to 100 per page.
What ships with Brightpearl ⇄ Demandbase

Connect Brightpearl and Demandbase for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Brightpearl or Demandbase instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Brightpearl or Demandbase 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 Brightpearl or Demandbase record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Brightpearl and Demandbase.

How the Brightpearl and Demandbase connectors work

Brightpearl

Integration surface
REST API, organized into services (order, product, contact, warehouse, accounting)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 (authorization code grant) for current apps; legacy private and public apps authenticate with app reference and account token headers
Change detection
Webhooks for object created/updated events, with resource search polling as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Requests are throttled per account under Brightpearl's API usage policies; bulk operations should use batch endpoints

Demandbase

Integration surface
REST APIs (Demandbase One) - a B2B API (company/contact search, details, and match with async bulk enrichment jobs), a read-only Data Export API and a write-capable Data Import API (both async bulk jobs), and a Subscription API for webhook change alerts.
Authentication
JWT bearer tokens minted from Demandbase One API Key Sets at the platform level; each credential set expires after 8 hours and is rotated. Legacy single-user API tokens are deprecated.
Change detection
Subscription API webhooks - company firmographic, company news, family-tree (ownership), and person employment-change alerts to a configurable URL secured with a signing secret; bulk reads run as async export jobs (submit, poll, download). No log-based CDC.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Credit-based per API call; bulk jobs accept up to 10,000 records per submission, CSV uploads up to 5GB, and result URLs stay valid 24 hours; subscription alerts page up to 5,000 entities and list endpoints up to 100 per page.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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