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

Keep Nutshell and Pendo 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 Pendo

Put live Nutshell data behind every dashboard and cohort in Pendo, and write the segments and scores Pendo computes back onto the Nutshell record — one connection, not a nightly export.

Pendo turns data into dashboards, cohorts, and metrics; Nutshell is where customers, contacts, deals, and activity actually live and change. The two meet wherever a number is really about a specific account, segment, or stage — yet most teams feed the CRM into analytics as a nightly extract or a hand-maintained connector, so the reporting lags the business and can't be sliced by the customers and segments that matter.

Stacksync syncs Activities, Tasks, Notes, Products from Nutshell into Pendo field by field and within seconds, so every dashboard and cohort runs on current records instead of a stale copy. Because the connection runs both ways, the cohorts, scores, and metrics computed in Pendo write back to fields in Nutshell, landing where the people working accounts can see them. You decide which system owns which fields; Stacksync keeps every copy consistent and resolves conflicts by rules you set.

Common use cases

  • 01 Set custom Visitor fields (role, lifecycle stage, entitlement) from the warehouse so in-app guides reach the right users without manual CSV uploads.
  • 02 Sync Pendo Visitors and Accounts into a data model to score product-qualified accounts alongside behavioral event data.
  • 03 Mirror tasks and activities into ops tools for cross-team visibility.
  • 04 Sync Nutshell leads into a warehouse or Postgres so small B2B teams can report on pipeline without exports.

Common sync patterns

Where Nutshell accepts updates: segments and scores back on the record

Cohorts, scores, and computed metrics from Pendo sync onto fields in Nutshell, putting the analysis where reps and owners actually work the accounts.

One customer across analytics and CRM

The same account or person is keyed consistently in both systems, so a profile or row in Pendo lines up with the contact or account in Nutshell.

A record that outlives edits in the CRM

A continuously synced copy of Nutshell's records and activity in Pendo keeps a queryable history even as records change or age out of the CRM.

What you can sync between Nutshell and Pendo

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 Pendo objects How this pairing syncs
Tags Segmentation labels mapped to lists or filters in downstream tools Guide Events Guide seen/advanced/dismissed and step events for in-app walkthroughs; read-only through the Aggregation API to measure onboarding flow adoption. Tags is specific to Nutshell and Guide Events to Pendo — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Users Rep records used to resolve ownership when syncing assignments Poll / NPS Responses Survey answers and NPS scores captured in-app (pollEvents / npsEvents); read-only via the Aggregation API as voice-of-customer data. Users is specific to Nutshell and Poll / NPS Responses to Pendo — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Leads Nutshell's deal object; synced as the pipeline record linked to people and companies Features / Pages / Guides (metadata) Definitions of tagged UI elements listed through the entity endpoints; read-only reference used to label and join the event streams. Leads is specific to Nutshell and Features / Pages / Guides (metadata) to Pendo — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
People Individual contacts, kept consistent with marketing and outreach tools Visitors End-user records with agent-collected and custom fields; queried through the Aggregation API and enriched with custom fields written back via the Metadata API. People is specific to Nutshell and Visitors to Pendo — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Companies Account records that group people and leads for account-level syncs Accounts Company/workspace records that roll visitors up to an account dimension; readable via Aggregation and a write target for custom fields (plan, ARR, health) via the Metadata API. Companies is specific to Nutshell and Accounts to Pendo — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Activities Logged calls, meetings, and emails used for engagement reporting Feature Events Click/interaction events on tagged features, read-only through the Aggregation API over an event-time window and joined to the Feature definitions. Activities is specific to Nutshell and Feature Events to Pendo — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Nutshell and Pendo

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

Pendo Nutshell Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Pendo for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling - reads query the Aggregation API over event-time windows.

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.
  • Pendo: Pendo does not publish fixed numeric limits; it throttles heavy Aggregation queries with 429s and caps/paginates large responses, so wide exports are paced and time-windowed.
What ships with Nutshell ⇄ Pendo

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Nutshell or Pendo 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 Pendo record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

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EDI

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

How the Nutshell and Pendo 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

Pendo

Integration surface
Pendo Engage API (REST) on app.pendo.io (US) / app.eu.pendo.io (EU), base path /api/v1/ - Aggregation API for reads and the Metadata API for writes
Authentication
Integration key sent in the x-pendo-integration-key header, generated in Subscription Settings; keys are scoped read-only or read/write, so writes require a read/write key
Change detection
Polling - reads query the Aggregation API over event-time windows; no change-data-capture feed and no data-change webhooks. Writes go through the Metadata API on demand.
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Pendo does not publish fixed numeric limits; it throttles heavy Aggregation queries with 429s and caps/paginates large responses, so wide exports are paced and time-windowed.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Nutshell and Pendo 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 ⇄ Pendo
    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 Pendo
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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:

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