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Front to GitHub integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Front and GitHub 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 Front and GitHub

Stop re-entering the same information in Front and GitHub: Stacksync keeps the records they share consistent in real time, in both directions.

Product and support engineering teams pair Front and GitHub to keep customer email and code work connected. Front Conversations that report bugs map to GitHub Issues and Pull Requests, so the team answering customers and the team shipping fixes work from linked records.

Stacksync syncs Conversations, Messages, Comments, Contacts in Front with Organizations and Teams, Users, Labels and Milestones, Repositories in GitHub in real time. You choose which records overlap, map the fields that should match, and pick a direction or let changes flow both ways. From then on, an update made in either tool is reflected in the other within seconds, without exports or copy-paste.

Because the sync is field-level, each tool keeps its own extras; only the shared data is held in agreement.

Common use cases

  • 01 Support closes the loop on bug reports the moment the fixing Release goes out.
  • 02 Engineering triages GitHub Issues with the full customer Messages thread attached.
  • 03 Escalation Inboxes in Front track only Conversations linked to open Issues or Pull Requests.
  • 04 Write CRM account tier, owner, and renewal data into Front contact and account custom fields so it shows next to the conversation.

Common sync patterns

Bug report to issue

a Front Conversation flagged as a bug creates a GitHub Issue with the message thread for context.

Fix status back to support

when the linked Pull Request merges or a Release ships, the Front Conversation is updated so the customer can be notified.

Commit and workflow visibility

Commits and Workflow runs tied to an Issue surface as Comments on the originating Front Conversation.

What you can sync between Front and GitHub

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.

Front objects GitHub objects How this pairing syncs
Contacts People across channels; matched to CRM contacts, with custom fields carrying external context. Issues Synced two-way with project trackers and support tools, including labels and assignees. Contacts is specific to Front and Issues to GitHub — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Accounts Company groupings of contacts; kept aligned with CRM accounts. Pull Requests Review state, status checks, and merge status feed engineering dashboards and workflow tools. Accounts is specific to Front and Pull Requests to GitHub — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Inboxes Shared queues that conversations live in; used to segment reporting by team or channel. Commits Read-only history used to link code activity to tickets and releases. Inboxes is specific to Front and Commits to GitHub — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tags Labels applied to conversations; drive routing and category-level analytics. Releases Tagged versions synced into changelogs, CRMs, or customer-notification systems. Tags is specific to Front and Releases to GitHub — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Teammates Agents; used for ownership mapping and workload reporting. Workflow runs (Actions) CI results synced into incident and reporting systems. Teammates is specific to Front and Workflow runs (Actions) to GitHub — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Channels Connected addresses (email, SMS, chat); define where messages originate and send from. Organizations and Teams Membership data synced with identity systems and HR directories for access reviews. Channels is specific to Front and Organizations and Teams to GitHub — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Front and GitHub

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.

Front GitHub 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 GitHub through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

GitHub Front Sub-second propagation

DetectionGitHub notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks with a broad event catalog covering issues, pull requests, pushes, and releases.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Front: Request limits vary by plan.
  • GitHub: Authenticated REST requests are limited to 5,000 per hour per user; GitHub Apps scale limits per installation.
What ships with Front ⇄ GitHub

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Front or GitHub 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 Front or GitHub record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Front and GitHub connectors work

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

GitHub

Integration surface
REST API and GraphQL API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0, fine-grained personal access tokens, or GitHub App installation tokens
Change detection
Webhooks with a broad event catalog covering issues, pull requests, pushes, and releases; polling for backfill
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Authenticated REST requests are limited to 5,000 per hour per user; GitHub Apps scale limits per installation.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Front and GitHub 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 · Front ⇄ GitHub
    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
    Front GitHub
    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 trust 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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