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Google Sheets to Namely integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Google Sheets and Namely 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 Google Sheets and Namely

Keep the people, teams, and status that Google Sheets and Namely share aligned in real time, so a hire, role change, or departure recorded in one reaches the other within seconds.

Each tool in Google Sheets keeps its own list of who can use it: users, members, or agents, along with the team they sit on and whether they are still active. Namely is the authoritative record of the same people as employees, with their department, manager, and employment status. When those two are connected only by manual account admin or a periodic export, the work tools drift: new hires wait days for access, team and manager changes never catch up, and people who have left keep standing accounts.

Stacksync syncs Spreadsheets, Sheets (tabs), Rows, Ranges in Google Sheets with Reports, Profile Fields, Events, Profiles in Namely bi-directionally and in real time. A person added, moved, or offboarded in Namely creates or updates the matching user in Google Sheets within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of spreadsheets and one-off account changes. Where Google Sheets captures details of its own, such as a corrected contact or a login identity, those can flow back to Namely in whichever direction you configure.

Because the sync is field-level, each system keeps its own extras; only the shared facts, who a person is, which team they belong to, and whether their access should be on, are held in agreement.

Common use cases

  • 01 Give ops and finance teams an editable spreadsheet view of CRM or database records, with edits written back to the source.
  • 02 Publish pipeline, revenue, or inventory snapshots from a warehouse into a shared sheet for reporting.
  • 03 Feed Namely Reports as JSON into a database on a schedule for roster, turnover, and diversity dashboards without manual CSV exports.
  • 04 Provision or deprovision accounts in an IdP or directory when a Profile's user_status or start_date changes, and write the resulting user ID and email back onto the Profile.

Common sync patterns

Offboarding: no standing access after a departure

When someone is marked as leaving in Namely, the matching account in Google Sheets is deactivated or flagged, so departures do not leave open access behind.

One employee directory

A person's name, title, contact details, or status corrected in either system updates the other, so both sides stop maintaining separate copies of the same person.

Org and team structure kept current

Department, team, and reporting-line changes from Namely keep the groups, queues, or projects in Google Sheets assigned to the right people.

What you can sync between Google Sheets and Namely

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.

Google Sheets objects Namely objects How this pairing syncs
Cell values Untyped by default, so syncs handle type coercion for dates and numbers. Job Titles Job title definitions; read and written so titles stay aligned with an HRIS, directory, or reporting dimension. Cell values is specific to Google Sheets and Job Titles to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Spreadsheets The file-level container a sync connects to, identified by spreadsheet ID. Job Tiers Leveling hierarchy grouping zero-to-many Job Titles; read to map seniority into warehouse dimension tables. Spreadsheets is specific to Google Sheets and Job Tiers to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Sheets (tabs) Individual worksheets, typically mapped one-to-one to a synced table. Groups Departments and locations that organize Profiles; synced to keep org structure aligned with a warehouse or IdP. Sheets (tabs) is specific to Google Sheets and Groups to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Rows Treated as records; a header row usually defines field names. Teams Teams and team categories a Profile belongs to; read and written for org-chart and provisioning workflows. Rows is specific to Google Sheets and Teams to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Ranges Addressed in A1 notation for batched reads and writes. Reports Saved Namely reports returned as JSON snapshots that update instantly; read-only feeds for headcount and roster analytics. Ranges is specific to Google Sheets and Reports to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Named ranges Stable references that keep sync mappings valid when the grid moves. Profile Fields Metadata describing standard and company-defined custom field sections; read to discover schema and generate mappings. Named ranges is specific to Google Sheets and Profile Fields to Namely — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Google Sheets and Namely

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.

Google Sheets Namely Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Google Sheets for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling.

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

Namely Google Sheets Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Namely for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No webhooks.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Google Sheets: Subject to per-minute read and write quotas per project and per user, so large syncs are batched.
  • Namely: Namely's public docs do not publish a fixed request quota; the REST API returns standard HTTP status codes, so integrations should throttle and back off on 429/5xx responses.
What ships with Google Sheets ⇄ Namely

Connect Google Sheets and Namely for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Google Sheets–Namely connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Google Sheets or Namely instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Google Sheets or Namely 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 Google Sheets or Namely record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Google Sheets ⇄ Namely sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Google Sheets and Namely.

How the Google Sheets and Namely connectors work

Google Sheets

Integration surface
REST API (Google Sheets API), with file-level change signals available through the Drive API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 (user consent) or Google service accounts
Change detection
Polling; the Sheets API has no cell-level webhooks, and Drive push notifications only signal file-level changes
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Subject to per-minute read and write quotas per project and per user, so large syncs are batched.

Namely

Integration surface
REST API (JSON over HTTPS)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 authorization-code grant, or a personal access token sent as a Bearer token; all calls run over HTTPS against https://{subdomain}.namely.com/api/v1
Change detection
No webhooks; integrations poll GET endpoints and compare the updated_at / created_at timestamps on Profiles and related objects to detect changes
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Namely's public docs do not publish a fixed request quota; the REST API returns standard HTTP status codes, so integrations should throttle and back off on 429/5xx responses.
How it works

How to connect Google Sheets to Namely — 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 Google Sheets and Namely 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
    Google Sheets connected
    Namely connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Google Sheets and Namely 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 · Google Sheets ⇄ Namely
    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
    Google Sheets Namely
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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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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