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Infor M3 to Salesforce Marketing Cloud integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Infor M3 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud 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 Infor M3 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Feed the real customer, order, and revenue records from Infor M3 into Salesforce Marketing Cloud so campaigns run on who actually bought what, and let contact and consent changes flow back in real time.

Marketing runs on lists of people, but the list rarely knows which of those people are paying customers, what they ordered, or what they are worth. Infor M3 holds exactly that: Price Lists, Items, Customers, Suppliers that record who the customer is, what they bought, and what they owe. When the two are joined only by a periodic export, campaigns go out against stale audiences, existing customers get prospecting emails, high-value accounts look the same as cold leads, and a canceled order still counts toward a segment.

Stacksync syncs Price Lists, Items, Customers, Suppliers in Infor M3 with Transactional Sends, Data Extensions, Contacts / Subscribers, Journeys (Journey Builder) in Salesforce Marketing Cloud in real time, and where both sides accept writes, in both directions. Customer, order, and invoice data maps field by field onto the contacts, audiences, or accounts Salesforce Marketing Cloud works with, so segmentation and personalization run on current purchase history instead of a month-old snapshot. Contact details and consent changes that originate in Salesforce Marketing Cloud flow back onto the record in Infor M3.

The strongest bridge between the two is identity and purchase history, who the customer is and what they have bought, so that is where most of the value sits. Because the sync is field-level, each system keeps the attributes the other has no use for; only the shared records are held in agreement.

Common use cases

  • 01 Feed manufacturing order status to a customer portal for order tracking in fashion, food, or equipment supply chains
  • 02 Keep supplier and purchase order data aligned between M3 and procurement tools
  • 03 Push CRM or warehouse audience segments into Data Extensions via the async rows API (background bulk insert) so marketing sends to freshly built audiences without manual CSV imports.
  • 04 Fire Journey Builder entry events (/interaction/v1/events) from an app or database when a contact acts, so behavioral journeys trigger on live events instead of scheduled batch loads.

Common sync patterns

Lifecycle triggers from back-office events

A first order, a renewal, or a lapsed account recorded in Infor M3 appears in Salesforce Marketing Cloud within seconds, ready to start or stop a lifecycle campaign.

Where Salesforce Marketing Cloud captures new people: signups become customer records

Registrations, form fills, or new subscribers in Salesforce Marketing Cloud create or update the corresponding record in Infor M3, so the back office sees them without anyone re-keying.

Consent and contact changes travel

Email, address, or subscription-status changes stay aligned across both systems, so a customer who updates their details or opts out is respected everywhere.

What you can sync between Infor M3 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud

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.

Infor M3 objects Salesforce Marketing Cloud objects How this pairing syncs
Warehouses Warehouse and facility records scope inventory and order data during mapping. Automations (Automation Studio) Scheduled or triggered workflows of import, query, extract, and send activities managed via /automation/v1/automations; SQL Query Activities read Data Views and write results into Data Extensions. Warehouses is specific to Infor M3 and Automations (Automation Studio) to Salesforce Marketing Cloud — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Price Lists Pricing data keeps quoting tools consistent with the prices M3 will actually invoice. Tracking Events Sent, Open, Click, Bounce, Unsubscribe, and NotSent events retrieved through the SOAP tracking objects (SentEvent, OpenEvent, ClickEvent, BounceEvent) or the Automation Studio Data Views (_Sent, _Open, _Click, _Bounce) - the queryable record of engagement per send. Price Lists is specific to Infor M3 and Tracking Events to Salesforce Marketing Cloud — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Items Item master records provide the SKU, unit, and attribute data other systems price and sell against. Transactional Sends Triggered and transactional Email/SMS delivered through the Messaging API (/messaging/v1/email/messages/{key}); the Event Notification Service reports each message's disposition (delivered, bounced, opened, clicked). Items is specific to Infor M3 and Transactional Sends to Salesforce Marketing Cloud — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Customers Customer master records sync with CRM account records to keep one shared customer file. Data Extensions Custom relational tables that store subscriber, audience, and arbitrary business data; rows are read via GET /data/v1/customobjectdata or SOAP Retrieve and upserted via the synchronous rowset PUT or the async /data/v1/async/dataextensions rows endpoint. This is the primary two-way surface. Customers is specific to Infor M3 and Data Extensions to Salesforce Marketing Cloud — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Suppliers Supplier records align procurement tools with the vendors M3 purchases from. Contacts / Subscribers The contact model keyed by Subscriber Key, holding channel addresses and subscription status; managed through the Contacts API (/contacts/v1/contacts) and the SOAP Subscriber object, and referenced by every send and journey. Suppliers is specific to Infor M3 and Contacts / Subscribers to Salesforce Marketing Cloud — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Customer Orders Orders created in commerce or CRM systems land in M3 for fulfillment and invoicing. Journeys (Journey Builder) Multi-step automated flows read and managed via /interaction/v1/interactions; contacts are injected by firing an entry event to /interaction/v1/events with an EventDefinitionKey and contact data. Customer Orders is specific to Infor M3 and Journeys (Journey Builder) to Salesforce Marketing Cloud — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Infor M3 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud

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.

Infor M3 Salesforce Marketing Cloud Sub-second propagation

DetectionInfor M3 notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Event publishing through Infor ION (Business Object Documents), configured in ION, or scheduled polling of API endpoints.

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

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Infor M3 Sub-second propagation

DetectionSalesforce Marketing Cloud notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. The Event Notification Service (ENS) issues HTTPS POST callbacks for transactional Email and SMS events (sent, bounce, open, click) once a callback.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Infor M3 through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Infor M3: Subject to Infor ION API gateway throttling policies.
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud: Salesforce does not publish fixed numeric REST rate limits; requests are throttled per account and can return HTTP 429, so backoff is advised. SOAP Retrieve returns at most 2,500 records per call and pages via ContinueRequest with the prior RequestID. Bulk Data Extension writes use the async rows API to queue inserts in the background.
What ships with Infor M3 ⇄ Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Connect Infor M3 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Infor M3–Salesforce Marketing Cloud connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Infor M3 or Salesforce Marketing Cloud instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Infor M3 or Salesforce Marketing Cloud 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 Infor M3 or Salesforce Marketing Cloud record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Infor M3 ⇄ Salesforce Marketing Cloud sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Infor M3 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

How the Infor M3 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud connectors work

Infor M3

Integration surface
REST API (M3 API programs exposed through the Infor ION API gateway)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via Infor OS / ION API authorization
Change detection
Event publishing through Infor ION (Business Object Documents), configured in ION, or scheduled polling of API endpoints
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to Infor ION API gateway throttling policies

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Integration surface
Two APIs on tenant-specific endpoints: a REST API (JSON over HTTPS) for Data Extensions, Journeys, Contacts, Content Builder, and Automations, plus a legacy SOAP API (ExactTarget WSDL) for tracking events and bulk Retrieve.
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via an Installed Package (Client ID + Client Secret). Server-to-server uses the client_credentials grant and web apps use authorization_code, both against {subdomain}.auth.marketingcloudapis.com/v2/token. The 20-minute access token response also returns the account's rest_instance_url and soap_instance_url.
Change detection
The Event Notification Service (ENS) issues HTTPS POST callbacks for transactional Email and SMS events (sent, bounce, open, click) once a callback URL and subscription are registered and verified. There is no general data-change feed, so Data Extension and Data View syncs poll by date fields.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Salesforce does not publish fixed numeric REST rate limits; requests are throttled per account and can return HTTP 429, so backoff is advised. SOAP Retrieve returns at most 2,500 records per call and pages via ContinueRequest with the prior RequestID. Bulk Data Extension writes use the async rows API to queue inserts in the background.
How it works

How to connect Infor M3 to Salesforce Marketing Cloud — 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 Infor M3 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud 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
    Infor M3 connected
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Infor M3 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud 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 · Infor M3 ⇄ Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    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
    Infor M3 Salesforce Marketing Cloud
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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Alerts

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