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Close to Intercom integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Close 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 Close and Intercom

Run Close and Intercom side by side with the same accounts and contacts in both, whether they serve different teams or one is replacing the other.

Two CRMs in one company is more common than anyone plans for: an acquisition brings its own system, regions or business units standardize differently, or a migration is under way and both are live. In every case, some of the same companies and people exist in both systems, and every day of manual double entry pushes the copies further apart.

Stacksync syncs Users, Smart Views, Leads, Contacts in Close with Articles, Contacts, Companies, Conversations in Intercom in real time and in both directions, with field-level mapping and matching on identifiers you choose. Update a record in either CRM and the other reflects it within seconds.

Common use cases

  • 01 Two-way sync between Close and a billing or ERP system so closed-won opportunities create customers and invoices automatically.
  • 02 Keep Close contacts aligned with a marketing automation platform so outreach lists stay current.
  • 03 Keep custom data attributes updated from billing or ERP systems so message segments reflect current plan and spend
  • 04 Route qualified leads from Intercom conversations into the CRM as leads or opportunities in near real time

Common sync patterns

Post-acquisition consolidation

Keep both CRMs accurate while the merged team decides on a target system, instead of freezing one and losing months of updates.

Migration with a parallel run

When one CRM is replacing the other, run both fully live until cutover, with no snapshot gap and no data freeze.

Divisional or regional split

Where each CRM serves a different team or region, sync just the shared accounts and contacts so handoffs and cross-sell work.

What you can sync between Close 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.

Close objects Intercom objects How this pairing syncs
Contacts People nested under a lead, with emails and phone numbers used for outreach syncs. Contacts A single contact model covers both users and leads, distinguished by a role attribute. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Users Sales reps referenced as owners on leads, opportunities, and activities. Admins & Teams Teammate records map conversation ownership to CRM users. Users is specific to Close and Admins & Teams to Intercom — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Smart Views Saved lead searches that can scope which records a segment-based sync pulls. Articles Help center content is accessible via API for knowledge sync and audits. Smart Views is specific to Close and Articles to Intercom — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Leads The top-level record in Close; represents a company and holds its contacts, opportunities, and activity history. Companies Company records group contacts and carry plan and account attributes used in segmentation. Leads is specific to Close and Companies to Intercom — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Opportunities Deal records with value, confidence, and status; commonly synced to reporting and billing systems. Conversations Support and sales threads sync outward for analytics and CRM context. Opportunities is specific to Close and Conversations to Intercom — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Activities Calls, emails, SMS, notes, and meetings logged against a lead; the source for engagement analytics. Tickets Structured ticket records track issues alongside conversational threads. Activities is specific to Close and Tickets to Intercom — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Close 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.

Close Intercom Sub-second propagation

DetectionClose notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling on date_updated fields for backfills.

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

Intercom Close 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.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Close: Subject to per-endpoint rate limits communicated in response headers.
  • Intercom: Subject to per-app rate limits on the Intercom API.
What ships with Close ⇄ Intercom

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Close 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 Close or Intercom record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Close and Intercom.

How the Close and Intercom connectors work

Close

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key (sent via HTTP Basic auth)
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling on date_updated fields for backfills
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to per-endpoint rate limits communicated in response headers

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 Close 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 Close 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
    Close connected
    Intercom connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Close 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 · Close ⇄ 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
    Close Intercom
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

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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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