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Nutshell to Okta integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Nutshell and Okta 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 Nutshell and Okta

Keep the people Nutshell and Okta both track in agreement in real time: the internal users who own records in Nutshell, and the customer login accounts in Okta.

A CRM and an identity system usually describe different populations. Nutshell tracks customers, contacts, and the deals in motion; Okta governs who is allowed to sign in and what they can reach. Where the two meet is people. The reps who own records in Nutshell are the same employees Okta provisions and disables, and when Okta also runs the login accounts for your product, the customers in Nutshell are the same users Okta authenticates. Left unconnected, a departure in Okta leaves stale ownership sitting in Nutshell, and a signup in Okta never reaches the account it belongs to.

Stacksync syncs Tasks, Notes, Products, Tags in Nutshell with System Log, Devices, Users, Groups in Okta in real time and in both directions, matching on email or an external ID and mapping field by field. You decide which system owns which fields, and new users, role and group changes, deactivations, and account status move within seconds instead of waiting on a quarterly access review or a manual export.

Common use cases

  • 01 Keep People and Companies consistent between Nutshell and email marketing or outreach tools.
  • 02 Write subscription or product data from internal systems into Nutshell so reps see account context.
  • 03 Sync Groups and their memberships two-way between Okta and a database or IdP so downstream app access stays aligned with source-of-truth org data.
  • 04 Mirror the System Log into Postgres or a warehouse for security analytics, access reviews, and audit retention beyond Okta's log window.

Common sync patterns

Where a closed deal should provision access: Nutshell drives Okta

A won or activated customer in Nutshell can create or update the corresponding user or account in Okta, so provisioning starts from the CRM record instead of a separate ticket.

Where Okta governs your workforce: CRM users kept current

New employees in Okta become active users in Nutshell with the right role, and group or department changes update their access and team, so the CRM's user list matches the directory without an admin re-keying it.

Deactivation and record hand-off

When someone is disabled in Okta, the matching user in Nutshell is deactivated too, and the accounts, contacts, and deals they owned are flagged for reassignment, so nothing goes unattended after they leave.

What you can sync between Nutshell and Okta

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.

Nutshell objects Okta objects How this pairing syncs
Users Rep records used to resolve ownership when syncing assignments Users Universal Directory user records with profile attributes, credentials, and lifecycle status (staged, active, suspended, deprovisioned); full CRUD, so users are created, updated, activated, and deactivated to match an HR or identity source. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
People Individual contacts, kept consistent with marketing and outreach tools Groups Okta groups (OKTA_GROUP, APP_GROUP, BUILT_IN) and their memberships; OKTA_GROUP records and membership are written to drive app and resource access. People is specific to Nutshell and Groups to Okta — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Companies Account records that group people and leads for account-level syncs Applications App integrations (SAML, OIDC, SWA) with per-user and per-group assignments; read and updated to manage which identities can reach each downstream app. Companies is specific to Nutshell and Applications to Okta — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Activities Logged calls, meetings, and emails used for engagement reporting Group Rules Dynamic rules that add users to groups from profile attributes; read and written to automate access based on department, title, or location. Activities is specific to Nutshell and Group Rules to Okta — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tasks Rep to-dos mirrored into external work-management or reporting systems Factors (Authenticators) MFA enrollments per user (Okta Verify, WebAuthn, SMS, email); read for security-posture reporting and reset when a device is lost or rotated. Tasks is specific to Nutshell and Factors (Authenticators) to Okta — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Notes Free-text history attached to leads and contacts, replicated for a full timeline Policies Sign-on, password, and authenticator-enrollment policies with their rules; read to audit access controls or updated to manage them centrally. Notes is specific to Nutshell and Policies to Okta — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Nutshell and Okta

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.

Nutshell Okta Sub-second propagation

DetectionNutshell notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling as fallback.

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

Okta Nutshell Sub-second propagation

DetectionOkta notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Event Hooks send an HTTPS POST to a subscribed endpoint on events such as user.lifecycle.create and group.user_membership.add (after a one-time.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Nutshell: Subject to the platform's API rate limits.
  • Okta: Rate limits are enforced per org, per endpoint group, per minute and vary by Okta edition; responses carry X-Rate-Limit-Limit, X-Rate-Limit-Remaining, and X-Rate-Limit-Reset headers and exceeding one returns HTTP 429. The System Log is more tightly limited (about 120 requests/minute) and a separate concurrent-request cap (default 75 in-flight transactions) also applies.
What ships with Nutshell ⇄ Okta

Connect Nutshell and Okta for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Nutshell or Okta instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Nutshell or Okta 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 Nutshell or Okta record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Nutshell and Okta.

How the Nutshell and Okta connectors work

Nutshell

Integration surface
JSON-RPC API over HTTPS; a newer REST API is also offered
Authentication
HTTP Basic with account email and API key
Change detection
webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling as fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
subject to the platform's API rate limits

Okta

Integration surface
REST API (Okta Management API, /api/v1) with Event Hooks for outbound events and the System Log API as the change feed
Authentication
SSWS API tokens (Authorization: SSWS {token}) scoped to the creating admin's permissions, or OAuth 2.0 for Okta service apps using a private-key-JWT client-credentials grant with granular scopes (DPoP supported)
Change detection
Event Hooks send an HTTPS POST to a subscribed endpoint on events such as user.lifecycle.create and group.user_membership.add (after a one-time verification handshake); the System Log API (/api/v1/logs) is polled by the since parameter and the next Link header for a near-real-time change feed
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Rate limits are enforced per org, per endpoint group, per minute and vary by Okta edition; responses carry X-Rate-Limit-Limit, X-Rate-Limit-Remaining, and X-Rate-Limit-Reset headers and exceeding one returns HTTP 429. The System Log is more tightly limited (about 120 requests/minute) and a separate concurrent-request cap (default 75 in-flight transactions) also applies.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Nutshell and Okta 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 · Nutshell ⇄ Okta
    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
    Nutshell Okta
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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SSO & SCIM

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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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