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Eloqua to Nutshell integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Eloqua and Nutshell 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 Eloqua and Nutshell

Keep the people you sell to and the people you market to in one shared view: Nutshell and Eloqua sync contacts, accounts, and engagement in real time, in both directions.

Nutshell owns the customer relationship and the pipeline; Eloqua runs the campaigns, audiences, and outreach that fill it. The two overlap on the same people and companies — a lead in one system is a subscriber, a segment member, an event registrant, or an ad audience in the other. When that overlap is bridged by CSV exports or a nightly job, sales works from lists that no longer match reality and marketing keeps targeting people whose status has already moved on.

Stacksync syncs Notes, Products, Tags, Users in Nutshell with Accounts, Custom Data Objects, Activities, Campaigns in Eloqua field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields — Nutshell can own account and opportunity status while Eloqua owns engagement and campaign membership — and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent and resolves conflicts by rules you set.

Common use cases

  • 01 Mirror tasks and activities into ops tools for cross-team visibility.
  • 02 Sync Nutshell leads into a warehouse or Postgres so small B2B teams can report on pipeline without exports.
  • 03 Load purchase or product-usage records into Custom Data Objects linked to Contacts so nurture campaigns branch on behavior mastered in another system.
  • 04 Add or remove Contacts from shared Contact Lists and Segments based on lifecycle stage computed downstream in a database.

Common sync patterns

New and updated people stay in step

When a contact or lead is created or edited in either system, the matching record appears or updates in the other, so campaigns reach real people and reps see who is already being marketed to.

Where Eloqua captures engagement: activity lands on the record

Opens, clicks, form fills, event attendance, or ad responses recorded in Eloqua post back to the contact or account in Nutshell, so reps see interest before they reach out.

Lead and lifecycle status agree

Status, stage, or score set in one system updates the matching record in the other, so a lead marketing is still nurturing is not worked as sales-ready, and a closed account stops receiving prospecting.

What you can sync between Eloqua and Nutshell

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.

Eloqua objects Nutshell objects How this pairing syncs
Activities Engagement events (email opens, clicks, form submits, bounces, page views, subscribes/unsubscribes) exported through the Bulk API activities export; read-only feed for scoring and attribution. Activities Logged calls, meetings, and emails used for engagement reporting Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Campaigns Multi-step campaign-canvas assets managed through the Application REST API; campaign membership and response data read out for attribution reporting. Notes Free-text history attached to leads and contacts, replicated for a full timeline Campaigns is specific to Eloqua and Notes to Nutshell — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Emails Email creative and email-group assets managed via the Application REST API; usually read for reporting rather than written by a sync. Products Line items attached to leads, used to sync sold products into billing Emails is specific to Eloqua and Products to Nutshell — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Forms and Form Submits Form definitions and their submission data, accessed through the Application REST API; submissions read out into a warehouse for lead capture and analysis. Tags Segmentation labels mapped to lists or filters in downstream tools Forms and Form Submits is specific to Eloqua and Tags to Nutshell — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Contact Lists and Segments Shared lists (static) and segments (dynamic audiences); Contacts are added to or removed from shared lists based on lifecycle stage computed downstream. Users Rep records used to resolve ownership when syncing assignments Contact Lists and Segments is specific to Eloqua and Users to Nutshell — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Contacts Core person records, keyed on email address as the unique identifier; imported/exported via the Bulk API and upserted on email, synced two-way with CRM, warehouse, and app databases. Leads Nutshell's deal object; synced as the pipeline record linked to people and companies Contacts is specific to Eloqua and Leads to Nutshell — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Eloqua and Nutshell

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.

Eloqua Nutshell Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Eloqua for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling via Bulk API exports filtered on a contact/account modified-date field using EML filter syntax.

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

Nutshell Eloqua Sub-second propagation

DetectionNutshell notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling as fallback.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Eloqua: Per-instance soft limits by sync type (Export 2,000/hr, Import 2,000/hr, Sync Action 4,000/hr); 32 MB cap per POST to a staging area and 50,000 records per retrieve batch.
  • Nutshell: Subject to the platform's API rate limits.
What ships with Eloqua ⇄ Nutshell

Connect Eloqua and Nutshell for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Eloqua or Nutshell instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Eloqua or Nutshell 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 Eloqua or Nutshell record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Eloqua and Nutshell.

How the Eloqua and Nutshell connectors work

Eloqua

Integration surface
Bulk API 2.0 (contacts, accounts, custom data objects, activities) plus Application REST API (campaigns, emails, forms, lists)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 (Authorization Code or Resource Owner Password Credentials grant; Client Credentials not supported) or HTTP Basic Auth with siteName + username + password; the instance base URL must first be discovered via the login.eloqua.com/id endpoint
Change detection
Polling via Bulk API exports filtered on a contact/account modified-date field using EML filter syntax; no general-purpose record-change webhook
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Per-instance soft limits by sync type (Export 2,000/hr, Import 2,000/hr, Sync Action 4,000/hr); 32 MB cap per POST to a staging area and 50,000 records per retrieve batch

Nutshell

Integration surface
JSON-RPC API over HTTPS; a newer REST API is also offered
Authentication
HTTP Basic with account email and API key
Change detection
webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling as fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
subject to the platform's API rate limits
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Eloqua and Nutshell 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 · Eloqua ⇄ Nutshell
    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
    Eloqua Nutshell
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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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.

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