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Gainsight to Gmail integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Gainsight and Gmail 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 Gainsight and Gmail

Sync the people, users, and work records in Gainsight with the calls, messages, and events in Gmail, in real time and in both directions.

Gainsight holds the records a team works from: the contacts, the tickets or tasks, the users, and the history attached to each. Gmail moves the actual communication, whether that is a call, a text, an email, or a meeting, and every one of those is tied to a person and often to a user on your side. When the two are connected only by manual entry or a nightly export, the communication happens in one system while the record it belongs to sits in another, so people rebuild context by hand and reach out from contact lists that are already out of date.

Stacksync syncs CTA (Call to Action), Scorecard Fact, Timeline Activity, Success Plan in Gainsight with History, Messages, Threads, Labels in Gmail bi-directionally and in real time. Contacts and users maintained in Gainsight feed Gmail so outbound dialing, messaging, and invites reach current numbers and addresses, and the calls, messages, and meeting events Gmail produces attach to the matching record in Gainsight within seconds. Everything is mapped field by field, with conflict resolution in place of copy-paste, and there is no middleware to build, no rate limits to babysit, and no batch job that leaves the morning running on yesterday's data.

Because the sync is field-level, each system keeps its own extras; only the shared people, users, and activity are held in agreement.

Common use cases

  • 01 Keep Relationship records aligned with a billing system or ERP so multi-product customers map to the correct contracts and invoices.
  • 02 Read Timeline Activities and Success Plan objectives into a reporting database for churn, QBR, and CSM-productivity dashboards.
  • 03 Read Attachments and message metadata into a warehouse or document store for retention, discovery, and compliance reporting.
  • 04 Mirror Labels with pipeline or ticket states so triage done in an external tool is reflected inside the inbox.

Common sync patterns

One contact master

A person's number, email, or contact preferences corrected in either system update the other, so the record and the channel that reaches them stay in agreement.

Where Gmail places calls or sends messages: activity on the record

Calls, texts, emails, or meeting events from Gmail attach to the matching contact, ticket, or item in Gainsight, so the full history lives with the record instead of in a separate log.

One user and agent roster

Users kept in Gainsight map to accounts, seats, or extensions in Gmail, so the same people exist on both sides and ownership stays meaningful across the two systems.

What you can sync between Gainsight and Gmail

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.

Gainsight objects Gmail objects How this pairing syncs
Custom Objects Org-specific MDA tables with the __gc suffix; discoverable via the Describe API so field mappings can be generated automatically. History The incremental change log keyed by historyId; used for efficient delta sync so only mailbox changes since the last cursor are fetched. Custom Objects is specific to Gainsight and History to Gmail — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Company Customer/account master in Gainsight CS; two-way synced with CRM and warehouse customer tables to keep ARR, owner, and renewal fields aligned. Messages Individual emails with headers, body, and label state; read out to a CRM or warehouse for activity logging, and sent or modified two-way from sales tools. Company is specific to Gainsight and Messages to Gmail — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Person (People) Contacts associated to companies through the Company Person junction; synced two-way with CRM contacts and warehouse person records. Threads Conversation groupings that keep replies together; synced so a CRM timeline or support desk shows the full exchange, not isolated messages. Person (People) is specific to Gainsight and Threads to Gmail — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Relationship Sub-units within a company for multi-product or multi-team accounts; synced so each maps to the right contract in billing or an ERP. Labels User and system labels (INBOX, SENT, custom); applied and removed via sync to mirror pipeline stages or triage states from an external system. Relationship is specific to Gainsight and Labels to Gmail — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
CTA (Call to Action) Risk and expansion alerts that drive CSM plays; often synced to ticketing or project tools so follow-up work is tracked where teams operate. Drafts Unsent messages; created and updated from templates or sequence tools so reps review before sending from their own mailbox. CTA (Call to Action) is specific to Gainsight and Drafts to Gmail — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Scorecard Fact Health scores and measures per Company or Relationship; usage metrics from a warehouse are written in so scores reflect live telemetry. Attachments File payloads referenced by message part; read out to storage or a document system for archival and compliance workflows. Scorecard Fact is specific to Gainsight and Attachments to Gmail — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Gainsight and Gmail

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.

Gainsight Gmail Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Gainsight for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on the ModifiedDate (GS Modified Date) system field, which is filterable and sortable on every object.

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

Gmail Gainsight Sub-second propagation

DetectionGmail notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Incremental sync via users.history.list from a stored historyId cursor, plus real-time push notifications through Google Cloud Pub/Sub watch on the.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Gainsight: Synchronous APIs are capped near 100 calls/min and 50,000/day; the asynchronous Bulk API allows 10 calls/hour and 100/day. Both are fixed-window limits, and the applicable per-hour and per-day limits are returned in the x-ratelimit-limit response header.
  • Gmail: Quota is measured in units per user per second (e.g. messages.list = 5 units, messages.send = 100 units) against a 250 quota-unit/user/second limit and a daily project cap; exceeding limits returns 429 with exponential backoff expected.
What ships with Gainsight ⇄ Gmail

Connect Gainsight and Gmail for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Gainsight or Gmail instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Gainsight or Gmail 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 Gainsight or Gmail record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Gainsight and Gmail.

How the Gainsight and Gmail connectors work

Gainsight

Integration surface
REST APIs (per-object) and asynchronous Bulk REST API
Authentication
API access key passed in the 'accesskey' request header (non-expiring), generated by a Gainsight admin; M2M OAuth (Client ID/Secret) is also supported
Change detection
Polling on the ModifiedDate (GS Modified Date) system field, which is filterable and sortable on every object; Rules Engine Real-Time Rules can optionally push specific object events (e.g., a Company stage change) to an external endpoint
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Synchronous APIs are capped near 100 calls/min and 50,000/day; the asynchronous Bulk API allows 10 calls/hour and 100/day. Both are fixed-window limits, and the applicable per-hour and per-day limits are returned in the x-ratelimit-limit response header.

Gmail

Integration surface
Gmail API (REST, v1)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via Google — user-authorized consent with granular scopes (gmail.readonly, gmail.modify, gmail.send, gmail.labels); restricted scopes require Google's app verification for production use
Change detection
Incremental sync via users.history.list from a stored historyId cursor, plus real-time push notifications through Google Cloud Pub/Sub watch on the mailbox (watch must be renewed at least every 7 days)
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Quota is measured in units per user per second (e.g. messages.list = 5 units, messages.send = 100 units) against a 250 quota-unit/user/second limit and a daily project cap; exceeding limits returns 429 with exponential backoff expected.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Gainsight and Gmail 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 · Gainsight ⇄ Gmail
    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
    Gainsight Gmail
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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