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

Keep Gainsight and Salesforce 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 Salesforce

Sync what happens in Gainsight with the customer records in Salesforce, 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 Gainsight 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 Success Plan, Task and Playbook, Custom Objects, Company in Gainsight to Contacts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases in Salesforce with bi-directional, real-time sync. Activity and record changes in Gainsight update the matching contact or account in Salesforce, and CRM data flows the other way wherever Gainsight can store and use it.

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 Write product usage metrics computed in a warehouse onto Account and Contact fields so reps see adoption signals on the record.
  • 04 Trigger provisioning or billing changes in an operational database when an Opportunity moves to closed-won.

Common sync patterns

Where Gainsight supplies contact or company data

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

Where Gainsight processes payments

Charges, refunds, and subscription changes appear on the account in Salesforce, so revenue context lives with the relationship.

Where Gainsight can store CRM context: fields kept current

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

What you can sync between Gainsight and Salesforce

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 Salesforce 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. Custom Objects Org-specific tables with the __c suffix; discoverable via describe metadata so field mappings can be generated. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Success Plan Account objectives with associated tasks; read out for reporting or synced with project tools tracking onboarding and adoption. Products and Price Books Catalog and pricing data; commonly mastered in an ERP and written into Salesforce. Success Plan is specific to Gainsight and Products and Price Books to Salesforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Task and Playbook Cockpit tasks generated from CTAs and playbooks; synced with Jira or Asana so execution happens in the team's own tool. Accounts Company records that anchor most syncs; typically mapped to customer tables in a database or ERP. Task and Playbook is specific to Gainsight and Accounts to Salesforce — 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. Contacts People linked to Accounts; synced two-way with marketing, support, and warehouse person records. Company is specific to Gainsight and Contacts to Salesforce — 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. Leads Unqualified prospects; often written into Salesforce from enrichment or product-signup pipelines. Person (People) is specific to Gainsight and Leads to Salesforce — 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. Opportunities Deal records with stage and amount; synced to databases for pipeline reporting and to ERPs at close. Relationship is specific to Gainsight and Opportunities to Salesforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Gainsight and Salesforce

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

Salesforce Gainsight Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Salesforce are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Apex triggers are used whenever possible (Salesforce actively notifies Stacksync via an Apex trigger + callout class + remote site setting).

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.
  • Salesforce: Daily API request allocations vary by edition and license count.
What ships with Gainsight ⇄ Salesforce

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Gainsight or Salesforce 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 Salesforce record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Gainsight ⇄ Salesforce 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 Salesforce.

How the Gainsight and Salesforce 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.

Salesforce

Integration surface
REST, SOAP, and Bulk APIs
Authentication
OAuth login via a Salesforce user (browser-based authorization flow); requires "API Enabled" permission for polling mode, plus "Author Apex" and "Customize Application" OR "Modify All Data" for trigger mode
Change detection
Apex triggers are used whenever possible (Salesforce actively notifies Stacksync via an Apex trigger + callout class + remote site setting)
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Daily API request allocations vary by edition and license count.
Salesforce setup guide
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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