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Customer.io to Xactly integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Customer.io and Xactly 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 Customer.io and Xactly

Sync what happens in Customer.io with the customer records in Xactly, in real time and in both directions.

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 Customer.io 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.

Stacksync connects Deliveries / Messages, Newsletters, People, Objects in Customer.io to Participants (Payees), Positions & Titles, Quotas / Targets, Payment Summary (Payable) in Xactly with bi-directional, real-time sync. Activity and record changes in Customer.io update the matching contact or account in Xactly, and CRM data flows the other way wherever Customer.io can store and use it.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync product usage and billing attributes from Postgres onto Customer.io people so lifecycle campaigns trigger on real product behavior.
  • 02 Push CRM segments and lead status into Customer.io so messaging respects sales stage.
  • 03 Mirror commission Transactions and Credits into a data warehouse to power rep-facing dashboards and comp-plan analytics without manual exports.
  • 04 Sync Participants, Positions, Titles, and Quotas from an HRIS/HCM and planning tools into Xactly so the org hierarchy and targets stay aligned with headcount changes.

Common sync patterns

Where Customer.io runs outreach

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

Where Customer.io supplies contact or company data

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

Where Customer.io processes payments

Charges, refunds, and subscription changes appear on the account in Xactly, so revenue context lives with the relationship.

What you can sync between Customer.io and Xactly

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.

Customer.io objects Xactly objects How this pairing syncs
Campaigns Automated workflows whose membership and metrics can be read via the App API. Payment Summary (Payable) Approved payable amounts per participant per period; read as the output that feeds payroll and accounts payable, so effectively read-only. Campaigns is specific to Customer.io and Payment Summary (Payable) to Xactly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Broadcasts One-off sends to segments or audiences, triggerable via API. Products & Customers Product and customer/account master used in crediting rules and reporting; loaded and updated from CRM/ERP through Connect (write) and read for lookups, so read and write. Broadcasts is specific to Customer.io and Products & Customers to Xactly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Deliveries / Messages Per-recipient message records whose lifecycle events flow out through reporting webhooks. Orders Sales order and transaction records loaded into Incent as the raw input for crediting and calculation; created and updated through Connect load and ETL steps (write) and read back for reconciliation, so read and write. Deliveries / Messages is specific to Customer.io and Orders to Xactly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Newsletters Recurring email sends with performance metrics available for reporting syncs. Credits Crediting records that tie an order to a participant and position; system-calculated credits are read, while manual and adjustment credits are loaded through Connect, so read and write. Newsletters is specific to Customer.io and Credits to Xactly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
People Profiles with attributes, matched on identifiers like id or email; the main write target of data syncs. Transactions (Commission & Bonus) Calculated commission and bonus line items produced by Incent's calculation engine; read as the output of comp runs for reporting and downstream payout, so effectively read-only results. People is specific to Customer.io and Transactions (Commission & Bonus) to Xactly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Objects Non-person entities such as accounts or companies, related to people for account-level messaging. Participants (Payees) Sales reps and payees keyed to positions; loaded and updated from HRIS/HCM source data through Connect (write) and read for roster reporting, so read and write. Objects is specific to Customer.io and Participants (Payees) to Xactly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Customer.io and Xactly

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.

Customer.io Xactly Sub-second propagation

DetectionCustomer.io notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Reporting webhooks push message and delivery events.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Xactly as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Xactly Customer.io Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Xactly for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No CDC log for external tools to consume.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Customer.io: Subject to per-API rate limits documented by Customer.io.
  • Xactly: Xactly does not publish numeric per-second rate limits. The Connect platform enforces query concurrency and long-running-query limits, so large extracts are paged and heavy loads/queries run as asynchronous Connect jobs (submit, then retrieve results) rather than row-by-row calls; batch loads are the supported path for high volume.
What ships with Customer.io ⇄ Xactly

Connect Customer.io and Xactly for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Customer.io–Xactly connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Customer.io or Xactly instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Customer.io or Xactly 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 Customer.io or Xactly record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Customer.io ⇄ Xactly sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Customer.io and Xactly.

How the Customer.io and Xactly connectors work

Customer.io

Integration surface
REST APIs split by purpose: Track API for data ingestion, App API for campaigns, people lookups, and messages
Authentication
Basic auth with site ID and API key for the Track API; bearer token for the App API
Change detection
Reporting webhooks push message and delivery events; person attribute changes are not streamed and require source-side detection
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to per-API rate limits documented by Customer.io

Xactly

Integration surface
Xactly Connect REST API v2 (JSON), plus ODBC/JDBC drivers over the same ANSI-SQL data model. Incent data is exposed as SQL-queryable objects (for example xactly_order, xactly_credit, xactly_transaction, xactly_payment); data is loaded and extracted through Connect load/query steps and server-side ETL Pipelines. The base host is region/pod-specific (for example https://<pod>.xactlycorp.com).
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via the Xactly Connect API Gateway (bearer tokens issued on behalf of an Xactly Incent user), with HTTP Basic authentication using a dedicated Xactly Connect service-user's credentials also supported for the Connect REST API v2. The connecting user needs Connect/API access plus the relevant object permissions in Incent.
Change detection
No CDC log for external tools to consume. Incremental sync uses SQL predicates on modified/last-updated timestamp columns (for example WHERE modified_date > watermark) against Connect's queryable objects, or scheduled Connect ETL Pipelines that pull deltas since the last run. Xactly Connect has no outbound HTTP webhooks, so change detection is pull/ETL-based.
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Xactly does not publish numeric per-second rate limits. The Connect platform enforces query concurrency and long-running-query limits, so large extracts are paged and heavy loads/queries run as asynchronous Connect jobs (submit, then retrieve results) rather than row-by-row calls; batch loads are the supported path for high volume.
Xactly setup guide
How it works

How to connect Customer.io to Xactly — 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 Customer.io and Xactly 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
    Customer.io connected
    Xactly connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Customer.io and Xactly 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 · Customer.io ⇄ Xactly
    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
    Customer.io Xactly
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Customer.io and Xactly integration FAQ

SECURITY

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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

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