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

Keep Freshworks 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 Freshworks CRM and Front

Sync what happens in Front with the customer records in Freshworks 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 Comments, Contacts, Accounts, Inboxes in Front to Notes, Contacts, Accounts, Deals in Freshworks CRM with bi-directional, real-time sync. Activity and record changes in Front update the matching contact or account in Freshworks CRM, and CRM data flows the other way wherever Front can store and use it.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync conversations, messages, and tags into Postgres for response-time and volume analytics across inboxes.
  • 02 Write CRM account tier, owner, and renewal data into Front contact and account custom fields so it shows next to the conversation.
  • 03 Sync unified contact records, covering sales and marketing attributes, into a warehouse for full-funnel reporting.
  • 04 Push scored leads from a data platform into Freshworks CRM and route them by lifecycle stage.

Common sync patterns

Where Front handles support or shared inboxes

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

Where Front supplies contact or company data

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

Where Front can store CRM context: fields kept current

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

What you can sync between Freshworks 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.

Freshworks CRM objects Front objects How this pairing syncs
Contacts Unified sales-and-marketing person records; the core entity for bidirectional syncs. Contacts People across channels; matched to CRM contacts, with custom fields carrying external context. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions. Custom fields on either side are included in the mapping.
Accounts Company records kept consistent with ERP and billing systems. Accounts Company groupings of contacts; kept aligned with CRM accounts. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Tasks Follow-ups created from external signals such as product usage events. Inboxes Shared queues that conversations live in; used to segment reporting by team or channel. Tasks is specific to Freshworks CRM and Inboxes to Front — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Appointments Meeting records readable for activity reporting. Tags Labels applied to conversations; drive routing and category-level analytics. Appointments is specific to Freshworks CRM and Tags to Front — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Sales activities Logged activity types used in engagement and productivity analysis. Teammates Agents; used for ownership mapping and workload reporting. Sales activities is specific to Freshworks CRM and Teammates to Front — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Lists Contact list membership synced against segments computed in a warehouse. Channels Connected addresses (email, SMS, chat); define where messages originate and send from. Lists is specific to Freshworks CRM and Channels to Front — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Freshworks CRM and Front

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.

Freshworks CRM Front Sub-second propagation

DetectionFreshworks CRM notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Polling with updated-at filters.

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

Front Freshworks CRM Sub-second propagation

DetectionFront notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Application webhooks and rule-triggered webhooks, with the events endpoint available for polling.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Freshworks CRM: Subject to per-account API rate limits that vary by plan.
  • Front: Request limits vary by plan.
What ships with Freshworks CRM ⇄ Front

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Freshworks 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 Freshworks CRM or Front record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Freshworks 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 Freshworks CRM and Front.

How the Freshworks CRM and Front connectors work

Freshworks CRM

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key sent as a Token authorization header
Change detection
Polling with updated-at filters; outbound webhooks can be configured through workflow automations
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to per-account API rate limits that vary by plan

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.
Front setup guide
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Freshworks 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 · Freshworks 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
    Freshworks 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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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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