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Folk CRM to Front integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Folk CRM and Front 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 Folk CRM and Front

Sync what happens in Front with the customer records in Folk CRM, 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 Front 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 Tags, Teammates, Channels, Conversations in Front to People, Companies, Groups, Custom fields in Folk CRM with bi-directional, real-time sync. Activity and record changes in Front update the matching contact or account in Folk CRM, and CRM data flows the other way wherever Front can store and use it.

Common use cases

  • Write CRM account tier, owner, and renewal data into Front contact and account custom fields so it shows next to the conversation.
  • Keep Front contacts and accounts aligned with CRM contacts and accounts in both directions.
  • Push enriched contact data from a data warehouse into folk custom fields.
  • Mirror folk groups into a reporting database to track pipeline and outreach coverage.

Where Front handles support or shared inboxes

Tickets and conversations attach to the right contact and account in Folk CRM, so sales sees open issues before the next call.

Where Front supplies contact or company data

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

Where Front can store CRM context: fields kept current

Owner, lifecycle stage, or account details from Folk CRM sync into Front, so people working there have the context without switching tools.

What you can sync between Folk CRM and Front

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.

Folk CRM objects Front objects
Companies Organization records linked to people and kept aligned with billing or CS systems. Tags Labels applied to conversations; drive routing and category-level analytics.
Groups Shared workspaces that organize contacts; group membership is often the field integrations act on. Teammates Agents; used for ownership mapping and workload reporting.
Custom fields Group-scoped attributes that receive enriched or computed values from external systems. Channels Connected addresses (email, SMS, chat); define where messages originate and send from.
Notes Free-text context attached to people and companies, readable for reporting. Conversations The central threaded unit that messages, comments, and tags attach to; synced for support analytics.
Reminders Follow-up items that can be created from external triggers. Messages Inbound and outbound emails, chats, and SMS within a conversation; read out for response-time reporting.
People Contact records; the primary entity synced with outreach and enrichment tools. Comments Internal team notes on conversations; usually read-only in syncs.
What ships with Folk CRM ⇄ Front

Connect Folk CRM and Front for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Folk CRM or Front 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 Folk CRM or Front record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Folk CRM and Front.

How the Folk CRM and Front connectors work

Folk CRM

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key (Bearer token)
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling of list endpoints as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits

Front

Integration surface
REST API (Core API)
Authentication
OAuth authorization via the Stacksync UI ("Connections" > "create new connection" > "Front" > "Authorize") — no coding required
Change detection
Application webhooks and rule-triggered webhooks, with the events endpoint available for polling
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Request limits vary by plan.
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How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Folk CRM and Front 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 · Folk CRM ⇄ Front
    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
    Folk CRM Front
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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SECURITY

Security teams love 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.

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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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