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Coupa to Ironclad integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Coupa and Ironclad 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 Coupa and Ironclad

Connect the financial records in Coupa with the work happening in Ironclad, so both stay current without exports or copy-paste.

Coupa holds the financial truth: who the customers are, what they were billed, what they paid. Ironclad is where part of the day-to-day work happens, and that work often involves the same customers and transactions. Without a live connection, the two drift apart, and people end up answering questions from stale copies.

Stacksync keeps Contracts, Expense Reports, Requisitions, Purchase Orders in Coupa and Signature Packets, Workflow Documents, Workflows, Records in Ironclad in sync, bi-directionally and in real time. Whatever records Ironclad keeps and whatever events it produces, the overlap with Coupa is mapped field by field, and a change on either side shows up on the other within seconds.

There is no middleware to build, no API rate limits to babysit, and no nightly job that leaves the morning running on yesterday's data.

Common use cases

  • 01 Mirror Purchase Orders and their status into an operational Postgres database for spend reporting and three-way match analytics.
  • 02 Export approved Invoices and their lines from Coupa into an accounting/ERP system to drive the AP pay cycle and GL posting.
  • 03 Pull executed contract PDFs from Records attachments into a document store or archive as each workflow completes.
  • 04 Two-way sync Ironclad Records with a warehouse or ERP so executed-contract value, counterparty, renewal dates, and status stay current without manual re-keying.

Common sync patterns

Where Ironclad is a docs or knowledge workspace: reference data kept fresh

Figures teams rely on, like customer status or outstanding balances, stay current wherever Ironclad surfaces them instead of going stale after a one-time paste.

Where Ironclad handles customer conversations: billing context in view

Front-line teams see invoice and payment status from Coupa next to the customer they are helping, without logging into the finance system.

Where Ironclad collects payments or triggers charges: events land in Coupa

Payment and charge activity flows into Coupa as it happens, so the books reflect reality without manual reconciliation.

What you can sync between Coupa and Ironclad

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.

Coupa objects Ironclad objects How this pairing syncs
Suppliers Supplier master records; kept aligned with an ERP vendor master and onboarding tools, synced two-way on the /suppliers resource. Records The Repository of executed and stored contracts with metadata (value, counterparty, key dates, type) and attachments; full create, read, update, and delete so signed-contract data and PDFs sync to a warehouse, ERP, or CRM. Suppliers is specific to Coupa and Records to Ironclad — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Users Employee and user accounts with roles and content groups; provisioned and updated from an HRIS or identity provider. Entities Structured records for counterparties and other parties linked to workflows and records; read and written to keep company and vendor master data aligned with a CRM or ERP. Users is specific to Coupa and Entities to Ironclad — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Accounts Chart-of-accounts segments and GL codes; usually mastered in the ERP and written into Coupa so requisitions and invoices code correctly. Obligations Post-signature commitments, milestones, and renewal dates tied to contracts; synced two-way to drive renewal, compliance, and finance reporting in downstream systems. Accounts is specific to Coupa and Obligations to Ironclad — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Contracts Supplier contract records with terms and dates; read out for reporting or created from a CLM system. Webhooks Event subscriptions that push workflow, approval, signature, document, and comment changes to Stacksync in near real time; created, listed, and deleted through the API across 40+ event types. Contracts is specific to Coupa and Webhooks to Ironclad — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Expense Reports Employee expense reports and their lines; exported to AP or ERP for reimbursement and GL posting. Workflow Approvals Per-workflow approval requests and their state; read to report approval status and cycle time, and status changes arrive live through the workflow_approval_status_changed event. Expense Reports is specific to Coupa and Workflow Approvals to Ironclad — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Requisitions Employee purchase requests with lines and approval chains; read out to warehouses, or created via the API from upstream intake tools. Signature Packets The e-signature packets on a workflow (sent, signatures collected, fully signed); read to track signing progress, with packet events delivered by webhook for real-time status. Requisitions is specific to Coupa and Signature Packets to Ironclad — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Coupa and Ironclad

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.

Coupa Ironclad Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Coupa for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on updated-at and created-at filters (e.g.

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

Ironclad Coupa Sub-second propagation

DetectionIronclad notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Native webhook subscriptions (POST /webhooks) fire on 40+ workflow, approval, signature, document, and comment events, and Ironclad retries a failing.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Coupa: Coupa does not publish explicit rate limits or expose X-RateLimit/Retry-After headers; integrations page 50 records at a time and back off on 429/503 responses.
  • Ironclad: Limits are enforced per account per minute by endpoint: GET Workflows 400 and POST/PATCH Workflows 40; GET Records 600 and POST/PATCH Records 200; GET Entities 600 and POST/PATCH Entities 200; Webhooks 600; all other endpoints 800. Exceeding a limit returns HTTP 429, and Ironclad recommends exponential backoff with jitter.
What ships with Coupa ⇄ Ironclad

Connect Coupa and Ironclad for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Coupa or Ironclad instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Coupa or Ironclad 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 Coupa or Ironclad record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Coupa and Ironclad.

How the Coupa and Ironclad connectors work

Coupa

Integration surface
REST Core API (JSON or XML)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 / OIDC via the client-credentials grant; scopes take the service.object.right form (e.g. core.accounting.read, core.accounting.write). Legacy API keys are being retired (no new keys since R34; API-key auth unsupported from R36). Access tokens last 24 hours.
Change detection
Polling on updated-at and created-at filters (e.g. updated-at[gt]=<timestamp>); Coupa has no native webhook subscriptions, though admins can configure outbound Call Out / external notifications.
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Coupa does not publish explicit rate limits or expose X-RateLimit/Retry-After headers; integrations page 50 records at a time and back off on 429/503 responses.

Ironclad

Integration surface
REST/JSON Public API (CLM API) at https://na1.ironcladapp.com/public/api/v1 (NA1 and EU1 regions plus a demo/sandbox), with a native Webhooks subscription API; described by an OpenAPI 3.1 spec.
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 - Authorization Code grant (PKCE for public clients) and Client Credentials grant for server-to-server; access tokens are Bearer, expire after 6 hours, and every endpoint is gated by a resource scope. The legacy static API bearer token was deprecated on 2024-11-22.
Change detection
Native webhook subscriptions (POST /webhooks) fire on 40+ workflow, approval, signature, document, and comment events, and Ironclad retries a failing endpoint up to 10 times over about 13.6 hours with exponential backoff. Otherwise poll the list endpoints by last-updated. There is no database change-data-capture log.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Limits are enforced per account per minute by endpoint: GET Workflows 400 and POST/PATCH Workflows 40; GET Records 600 and POST/PATCH Records 200; GET Entities 600 and POST/PATCH Entities 200; Webhooks 600; all other endpoints 800. Exceeding a limit returns HTTP 429, and Ironclad recommends exponential backoff with jitter.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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