Skip to content
CRM ⇄ Human resources

Copper CRM to Smartrecruiters integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Copper CRM and Smartrecruiters in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

  • SOC 2 and 6 other compliance frameworks
  • POC with real engineers in minutes

Adopted by fast-scaling companies moving mission-critical data in real time

Case study
Migrated from MuleSoft
Case study
Migrated from Celigo
Migrated from Heroku Connect
Migrated from Matillion
Case study
Migrated from Fivetran
Case study
Migrated from Celigo
Why teams connect Copper CRM and Smartrecruiters

Keep the people who own accounts in Copper CRM in step with the workforce records in Smartrecruiters, so ownership, roles, and org structure stay current in both systems, in real time and in both directions.

Copper CRM runs on people as much as on accounts: every contact, deal, and account has an owner, and those owners are employees whose roles, teams, and status are held in Smartrecruiters. Smartrecruiters is the system of record for the workforce, from new hires to promotions to departures, and often for the candidates the business is still deciding on. When the two systems are connected only by re-keying or an overnight export, they drift apart, and the CRM ends up assigning accounts to people who have left, holding territories that no longer match the org chart, and waiting days to give a new rep access.

Stacksync syncs Leads, Opportunities, Activities, Tasks in Copper CRM with Approvals, Candidates, Applications, Jobs in Smartrecruiters field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields, so Smartrecruiters stays authoritative on roles and org structure while Copper CRM keeps ownership and territory current, and Stacksync resolves conflicts by the rules you set.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync Copper people and opportunities into a warehouse for pipeline reporting beyond Copper's native dashboards.
  • 02 Two-way sync between Copper and an accounting or invoicing system so won opportunities become customers and invoices.
  • 03 Two-way sync Candidates and Applications with Postgres so recruiting-ops apps read and update hiring status, tags, and custom fields in SQL while recruiters keep working in SmartRecruiters.
  • 04 Write enriched or sourced Candidates from external sourcing tools into SmartRecruiters and keep contact fields refreshed as data changes.

Common sync patterns

New team members provisioned when they are hired

When Smartrecruiters records a new hire, a matching user or owner is created in Copper CRM, so a new rep can start working accounts without waiting on a manual setup ticket.

Ownership and territory follow the org chart

When a person changes team, manager, or region in Smartrecruiters, their accounts and territory assignments in Copper CRM update to match, so pipeline stays with the right owner.

Deactivate access when someone leaves

When Smartrecruiters marks a worker as departed, the matching user in Copper CRM is flagged or deactivated, so former employees do not keep CRM access after their last day.

What you can sync between Copper CRM and Smartrecruiters

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.

Copper CRM objects Smartrecruiters objects How this pairing syncs
Custom Field Definitions Org-defined fields whose definitions are fetched to build dynamic field mappings. Job Postings Job ads and publications pushed to the career site and job boards; created and managed via the job publication endpoints (rate-limited to 2 requests/sec). Custom Field Definitions is specific to Copper CRM and Job Postings to Smartrecruiters — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
People Individual contact records, often created from Gmail interactions, and the main target of contact syncs. Interviews Interview types, timeslots, templates, and scheduled interviews with interviewers and times; created, updated, and read for scheduling and interviewer-load analytics. People is specific to Copper CRM and Interviews to Smartrecruiters — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Companies Organization records linked to people and opportunities. Offers Offer records tied to an Application with status, custom offer fields, and offer documents; readable and writable, commonly synced to an HRIS on hire (documents endpoint limited to 2 requests/sec). Companies is specific to Copper CRM and Offers to Smartrecruiters — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Leads Unqualified prospects kept separate from People until converted. Users Company users (recruiters, hiring managers) with roles, access groups, and activation state; read and written via the User Management API. Leads is specific to Copper CRM and Users to Smartrecruiters — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Opportunities Deals tracked through pipelines and stages; synced for revenue reporting. Approvals Approval requests for jobs and offers; requests can be created, retrieved as pending, commented on, and approved or rejected via the Approvals API. Opportunities is specific to Copper CRM and Approvals to Smartrecruiters — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Activities Logged emails, calls, meetings, and notes attached to records. Candidates Person records with contact details, tags, attachments, custom properties, and consent; created, updated, and searched via the Candidates API, often populated from sourcing or enrichment pipelines. Activities is specific to Copper CRM and Candidates to Smartrecruiters — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Copper CRM and Smartrecruiters

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.

Copper CRM Smartrecruiters Sub-second propagation

DetectionCopper CRM notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhook subscriptions for record create/update/delete events.

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

Smartrecruiters Copper CRM Sub-second propagation

DetectionSmartrecruiters notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks API — subscribe to events (new application, candidate updated, status changed) delivered with a signing secret and retrievable callback logs.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Copper CRM: Subject to the platform's API rate limits.
  • Smartrecruiters: Per API credential: most endpoints allow up to 10 requests/sec (job publication and offer documents 2/sec), plus a concurrency limiter of up to 8 simultaneous requests (GET /candidates capped at 1). Exceeding returns 429; responses carry X-RateLimit-Limit/Remaining and concurrent-limit headers.
What ships with Copper CRM ⇄ Smartrecruiters

Connect Copper CRM and Smartrecruiters for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Copper CRM–Smartrecruiters connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Copper CRM or Smartrecruiters instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Copper CRM or Smartrecruiters 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 Copper CRM or Smartrecruiters record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Copper CRM ⇄ Smartrecruiters sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Copper CRM and Smartrecruiters.

How the Copper CRM and Smartrecruiters connectors work

Copper CRM

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key paired with the requesting user's email address, sent as request headers
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record create/update/delete events; polling as fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits

Smartrecruiters

Integration surface
SmartRecruiters REST APIs (SmartAPIs) on api.smartrecruiters.com — Candidates, Application, Jobs, Interviews, Offers, Users, Approvals, plus a Webhooks API for event subscriptions
Authentication
X-SmartToken API key header for a customer's own integration (grants full company access, no scopes or expiry), or OAuth 2.0 authorization-code flow for partner and Marketplace apps with user-scoped permissions
Change detection
Webhooks API — subscribe to events (new application, candidate updated, status changed) delivered with a signing secret and retrievable callback logs; otherwise poll list endpoints with updated-after-style filters. No log-based change data capture.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Per API credential: most endpoints allow up to 10 requests/sec (job publication and offer documents 2/sec), plus a concurrency limiter of up to 8 simultaneous requests (GET /candidates capped at 1). Exceeding returns 429; responses carry X-RateLimit-Limit/Remaining and concurrent-limit headers.
Smartrecruiters setup guide
How it works

How to connect Copper CRM to Smartrecruiters — 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 Copper CRM and Smartrecruiters 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
    Copper CRM connected
    Smartrecruiters connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Copper CRM and Smartrecruiters 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 · Copper CRM ⇄ Smartrecruiters
    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
    Copper CRM Smartrecruiters
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
Try interactive demo
FAQ

Copper CRM and Smartrecruiters integration FAQ

SECURITY

Security teams trust Stacksync

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.

Learn more about security
SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA BAA
GDPR
CCPA
DPF US-EU-UK-CH
→ SECURITY WITH BENEFITS

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

Related integrations

Every pair below is a real-time, two-way sync. Search all 526 integrations available for Copper CRM and Smartrecruiters.

Popular · 8 of 526
All Copper CRM integrations All Smartrecruiters integrations Browse all integrations
Coworkers laughing in front of a laptop in a casual office setting

Your last integration took months.
Your next one takes a prompt.

Book a demo Tour the platform on your own