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

Keep Front and Navan 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 Navan

Connect the financial records in Navan with the work happening in Front, so both stay current without exports or copy-paste.

Navan holds the financial truth: who the customers are, what they were billed, what they paid. Front is where part of the day-to-day work happens, and that work often involves the same customers and transactions. Without a live connection, the two drift apart, and people end up answering questions from stale copies.

Stacksync keeps Users, Card Transactions, Connect Transactions, Manual Transactions in Navan and Teammates, Channels, Conversations, Messages in Front in sync, bi-directionally and in real time. Whatever records Front keeps and whatever events it produces, the overlap with Navan is mapped field by field, and a change on either side shows up on the other within seconds.

There is no middleware to build, no API rate limits to babysit, and no nightly job that leaves the morning running on yesterday's data.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync Users and department mappings from an HRIS into reporting tables so every transaction is attributed to a cost center and manager.
  • 02 Sync Card Transactions and Manual Transactions into Postgres or a warehouse so finance analyzes corporate spend in SQL without manual CSV exports.
  • 03 Keep Front contacts and accounts aligned with CRM contacts and accounts in both directions.
  • 04 Mirror conversations tagged for escalation into engineering trackers through the synced database.

Common sync patterns

Where Front handles customer conversations: billing context in view

Front-line teams see invoice and payment status from Navan next to the customer they are helping, without logging into the finance system.

Where Front collects payments or triggers charges: events land in Navan

Payment and charge activity flows into Navan as it happens, so the books reflect reality without manual reconciliation.

Where Front tracks people or companies: one identity

A customer's details updated in either system update the other, so finance and the rest of the business stop maintaining two versions of the same customer.

What you can sync between Front and Navan

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 Navan objects How this pairing syncs
Tags Labels applied to conversations; drive routing and category-level analytics. Manual Transactions Out-of-pocket reimbursements and payroll submissions; synced for approval and reimbursement, then GL-coded back into Navan. Tags is specific to Front and Manual Transactions to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Teammates Agents; used for ownership mapping and workload reporting. Bookings Flight, hotel, rail, and car reservations from the Booking API; pulled read-only by createdFrom/createdTo date range for trip and travel-spend reporting. Teammates is specific to Front and Bookings to Navan — 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. Custom Fields Company metadata such as cost centers and project codes; discovered via GET and their option lists created or updated via async POST. Channels is specific to Front and Custom Fields to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Conversations The central threaded unit that messages, comments, and tags attach to; synced for support analytics. Receipts Receipt images tied to each transaction; fetched read-only through presigned URLs for archival in a warehouse or document store. Conversations is specific to Front and Receipts to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Messages Inbound and outbound emails, chats, and SMS within a conversation; read out for response-time reporting. Repayments, Fees, and Adjustments Money-movement records including repayments, FX and platform fees, and credit or debit memos; read-only for reconciliation ledgers. Messages is specific to Front and Repayments, Fees, and Adjustments to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Comments Internal team notes on conversations; usually read-only in syncs. Users Employee and cardholder records referenced by every transaction; usually provisioned from an HRIS and used to map spend to people and departments. Comments is specific to Front and Users to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Front and Navan

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

Navan Front Sub-second propagation

DetectionNavan notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Navan's Expense API supports webhooks for transaction and expense events.

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.
  • Navan: Requests are throttled with HTTP 429 and Navan recommends retrying with exponential backoff; the Expense/Public API must first be enabled per account by Navan.
What ships with Front ⇄ Navan

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Front or Navan 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 Navan record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Front ⇄ Navan 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 Navan.

How the Front and Navan 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

Navan

Integration surface
REST (Expense API and Booking API)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 client-credentials flow; an admin creates a client_id and client_secret under Settings > Integrations and exchanges them at Navan's OAuth token endpoint for a short-lived bearer token that is refreshed on expiry (separate US and EU regional hosts)
Change detection
Navan's Expense API supports webhooks for transaction and expense events; sync engines also poll GET endpoints with date-range and updatedAt filters (createdFrom/createdTo for bookings) to backfill history and reconcile. There is no database-level CDC.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Requests are throttled with HTTP 429 and Navan recommends retrying with exponential backoff; the Expense/Public API must first be enabled per account by Navan.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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

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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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