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

Keep Gmail and Nimble 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 Gmail and Nimble

Keep Nimble and Gmail working from the same contacts, and log every call, message, and meeting back on the record, in real time and in both directions.

Nimble holds the people the business talks to: the contacts, their phone numbers and email addresses, and which rep owns the relationship. Gmail is where the talking happens, whether that is calls, texts, email, or meetings. The two depend on the same people, and when the contact list in one drifts from the other, outreach goes to stale numbers and the record of what was said never makes it back to the account.

Stacksync syncs Tasks, Activities, Notes, Tags in Nimble with Messages, Threads, Labels, Drafts in Gmail field by field, in real time, and in both directions. Current contact details flow out to Gmail so it can reach the right person, and the calls, messages, and meetings Gmail produces flow back onto the matching record in Nimble. You decide which system owns which fields, and conflicts resolve by rules you set.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync Nimble contacts and companies into Postgres so ops teams can query socially enriched profile data with SQL.
  • 02 Push product usage or billing flags from internal databases into Nimble custom fields so reps have context before outreach.
  • 03 Log sent and received Messages onto CRM contact and deal timelines automatically so reps never copy-paste email history.
  • 04 Create Drafts in a rep's mailbox from CRM templates and sequences, keeping sends authentic to the sender's address and signature.

Common sync patterns

One contact list, opt-outs included

A number, address, or unsubscribe recorded in either system updates the other, so no one calls a disconnected line or messages someone who opted out.

New contacts reachable right away

A contact created or updated in Nimble appears in Gmail within seconds, so outreach starts without exporting a list or re-keying numbers.

Where Gmail reaches out: contacts kept current

Names, phone numbers, email addresses, and the owning rep from Nimble stay current in Gmail, so every call, text, or email goes to the right person at the right address.

What you can sync between Gmail and Nimble

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.

Gmail objects Nimble objects How this pairing syncs
Attachments File payloads referenced by message part; read out to storage or a document system for archival and compliance workflows. Notes Free-text records attached to contacts, replicated for a complete account timeline Attachments is specific to Gmail and Notes to Nimble — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
History The incremental change log keyed by historyId; used for efficient delta sync so only mailbox changes since the last cursor are fetched. Tags Segmentation labels that map to list membership or filters in downstream systems History is specific to Gmail and Tags to Nimble — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Custom fields Account-defined contact attributes that carry enrichment or internal identifiers Messages is specific to Gmail and Custom fields to Nimble — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Threads Conversation groupings that keep replies together; synced so a CRM timeline or support desk shows the full exchange, not isolated messages. Contacts Person records with multi-value fields for email, phone, and social profiles; the primary sync entity Threads is specific to Gmail and Contacts to Nimble — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Labels User and system labels (INBOX, SENT, custom); applied and removed via sync to mirror pipeline stages or triage states from an external system. Companies Stored as contact records with a company record type, so they sync through the same contacts resource Labels is specific to Gmail and Companies to Nimble — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Drafts Unsent messages; created and updated from templates or sequence tools so reps review before sending from their own mailbox. Deals Pipeline records linked to contacts, synced to keep revenue systems aligned with sales activity Drafts is specific to Gmail and Deals to Nimble — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Gmail and Nimble

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.

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

Nimble Gmail Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Nimble for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on record modification timestamps.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • 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.
  • Nimble: Subject to per-account API request quotas.
What ships with Gmail ⇄ Nimble

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

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

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Gmail and Nimble connectors work

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.

Nimble

Integration surface
REST API (JSON)
Authentication
API key; OAuth 2.0 available for registered applications
Change detection
polling on record modification timestamps
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
subject to per-account API request quotas
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Gmail and Nimble 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 · Gmail ⇄ Nimble
    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
    Gmail Nimble
    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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