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

Keep Nimble and Shopware 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 Nimble and Shopware

Keep the customers and orders that Nimble and Shopware share aligned in real time, so sales works from live purchase history and the store works from current account details.

Nimble holds the customer relationship: the contacts, accounts, and deals a go-to-market team works. Shopware runs the buying side: who placed which order, what they bought, and where it ships. The two describe the same people and companies, and when they are connected only by exports, sales answers questions without recent orders in front of them while the store works from account details that changed weeks ago.

Stacksync links Deals, Tasks, Activities, Notes in Nimble to Products, Categories, Customers, Orders in Shopware with bi-directional, real-time sync. New customers, order activity, and corrected contact details move in whichever direction you configure, field by field, with conflicts resolved by rules you set. A record created or changed on either side shows up on the other within seconds, with no CSV exports and no nightly job.

The shared entity is the customer, matched on email or an external ID, so both systems agree on who the buyer is and the order history sits next to the relationship instead of in a separate tab.

Common use cases

  • 01 Keep deals aligned between Nimble and an accounting system so invoicing starts when a deal closes.
  • 02 Consolidate contacts from marketing tools into Nimble while writing Nimble edits back to avoid duplicates.
  • 03 Write tracking numbers and delivery state onto `order_delivery` from a 3PL or WMS so storefront order status reflects fulfillment.
  • 04 Consolidate orders and customers from multiple `sales_channel` storefronts into one Postgres database for cross-channel analysis.

Common sync patterns

Contact and address details stay consistent

An email, phone, or shipping and billing address corrected in either system updates the other, so the next order and the next outreach both use current information.

Where Nimble segments customers: status travels to the store record

Lifecycle stage, tier, or account owner set in Nimble syncs onto the customer record in Shopware, so the buying side can act on how the relationship is classified.

Where both keep product records: catalog and CRM products aligned

Where Nimble tracks products or line items and Shopware holds the catalog, shared items are matched on SKU so quotes, deals, and orders reference the same products.

What you can sync between Nimble and Shopware

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.

Nimble objects Shopware objects How this pairing syncs
Tags Segmentation labels that map to list membership or filters in downstream systems Customers Storefront customer accounts (`customer`) with addresses and group; synced two-way with a CRM or support tool. Tags is specific to Nimble and Customers to Shopware — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Custom fields Account-defined contact attributes that carry enrichment or internal identifiers Orders Order headers (`order`) with totals, state, and sales-channel reference; read out to accounting and written back for status updates. Custom fields is specific to Nimble and Orders to Shopware — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Contacts Person records with multi-value fields for email, phone, and social profiles; the primary sync entity Order Line Items Per-order product rows (`order_line_item`); read alongside the order for revenue and fulfillment reporting. Contacts is specific to Nimble and Order Line Items to Shopware — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Companies Stored as contact records with a company record type, so they sync through the same contacts resource Order Deliveries Shipping records (`order_delivery`) carrying delivery state and tracking codes; written back from a 3PL or WMS. Companies is specific to Nimble and Order Deliveries to Shopware — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Deals Pipeline records linked to contacts, synced to keep revenue systems aligned with sales activity Order Transactions Payment records (`order_transaction`) holding payment method and state; read to reconcile against a billing or finance system. Deals is specific to Nimble and Order Transactions to Shopware — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tasks To-do items tied to contacts, mirrored into work-management tools or reporting tables Sales Channels Per-storefront configuration (`sales_channel`); used to scope and consolidate orders and customers across multiple storefronts. Tasks is specific to Nimble and Sales Channels to Shopware — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Nimble and Shopware

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.

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

Shopware Nimble Sub-second propagation

DetectionShopware notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. App-system webhooks on entity events (product.written, order.written, customer.written) deliver the changed record's primaryKey and updated field.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Nimble: Subject to per-account API request quotas.
  • Shopware: No general throttle on Admin API entity endpoints; Shopware's RateLimiter guards only specific routes (login, oauth, password reset, guest order/contact) and is configurable on self-hosted stores.
What ships with Nimble ⇄ Shopware

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

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

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Nimble and Shopware connectors work

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

Shopware

Integration surface
Admin API (REST / JSON:API) with a bulk POST /api/_action/sync endpoint
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 — client-credentials grant using an Integration's Access Key ID + Secret Access Key, or resource-owner password grant for a user; access tokens expire after 10 minutes
Change detection
App-system webhooks on entity events (product.written, order.written, customer.written) deliver the changed record's primaryKey and updated field names; otherwise poll on the updatedAt / createdAt fields
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
No general throttle on Admin API entity endpoints; Shopware's RateLimiter guards only specific routes (login, oauth, password reset, guest order/contact) and is configurable on self-hosted stores
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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

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SECURITY

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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

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