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Insightly to MySQL integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Insightly and MySQL 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 Insightly and MySQL

Treat Insightly like part of your database: its records live in MySQL as real tables, and writes in either place sync to the other in seconds.

Product and engineering teams constantly need CRM data, and the CRM API is a poor way to get it: rate limits, pagination, custom objects, and integration code that breaks when an admin renames a field. What they actually want is the data in MySQL, where it can be queried and joined like everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Notes, Products, Custom Fields, Contacts from Insightly into Primary and Unique Keys, JSON Columns, Stored Procedures, Triggers in MySQL with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Insightly with validation intact. Go-to-market teams keep working in the CRM, engineers keep working in the database, and neither has to think about the other.

Common use cases

  • Write product usage or billing data from internal databases into Insightly custom fields for account context
  • Deduplicate and align customer records between Insightly and an ERP or invoicing system
  • Expose SaaS objects as MySQL tables so legacy internal tools built on MySQL can read live business data
  • Replicate ERP master data (customers, items, pricing) into the MySQL databases behind storefronts and portals

Internal tools without API code

Back-office apps read and write the synced tables; Stacksync handles the Insightly API, limits, and retries.

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

Field and stage updates in Insightly arrive as row changes in MySQL, ready to drive jobs and notifications.

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Insightly become tables in MySQL you can join with application data directly.

What you can sync between Insightly and MySQL

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.

Insightly objects MySQL objects
Notes Free-text context attaches to synced records for downstream visibility. Databases (Schemas) Top-level namespaces that scope a sync's reads and writes.
Products Product catalog entries support line-item syncing on opportunities and quotes. Tables The primary sync target; rows map to records in connected systems.
Custom Fields Per-object custom fields carry enrichment and billing data written from external systems. Views Read-side projections used as outbound sync sources.
Contacts Person records sync with marketing and support tools to keep one contact list. Columns Field-level mapping targets with engine-typed values.
Organizations Company records map to accounts in ERPs and other CRMs. Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts and conflict handling.
Leads Unqualified prospects sync in from forms and enrichment sources before conversion. JSON Columns Validated semi-structured payloads for nested SaaS data.
What ships with Insightly ⇄ MySQL

Connect Insightly and MySQL for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Insightly or MySQL instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Insightly or MySQL 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 Insightly or MySQL record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Insightly and MySQL.

How the Insightly and MySQL connectors work

Insightly

Integration surface
REST API (versioned)
Authentication
API key sent via HTTP Basic authentication
Change detection
Polling on record updated-date fields
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Daily API request caps vary by Insightly plan

MySQL

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (MySQL client/server protocol)
Authentication
Database credentials entered as a connection string or parameters, with optional SSL root certificate upload and optional SSH tunnel (SSH user + SSH host)
Change detection
Database triggers — Stacksync creates deterministic triggers for internal logging and syncing (requires log_bin_trust_function_creators=ON when binary logging is enabled)
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by connection limits and server resources
MySQL setup guide
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Insightly and MySQL 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 · Insightly ⇄ MySQL
    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
    Insightly MySQL
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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SECURITY

Security teams love Stacksync

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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