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Apollo.io to Drift integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Apollo.io and Drift 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 Apollo.io and Drift

Run Apollo.io and Drift side by side with the same accounts and contacts in both, whether they serve different teams or one is replacing the other.

Two CRMs in one company is more common than anyone plans for: an acquisition brings its own system, regions or business units standardize differently, or a migration is under way and both are live. In every case, some of the same companies and people exist in both systems, and every day of manual double entry pushes the copies further apart.

Stacksync syncs People (database records), Sequences, Deals (Opportunities), Tasks and calls in Apollo.io with Messages, Accounts, Users, Playbooks in Drift in real time and in both directions, with field-level mapping and matching on identifiers you choose. Update a record in either CRM and the other reflects it within seconds.

Common use cases

  • Deduplicate contacts across Apollo and the CRM by syncing on email as the match key.
  • Push CRM opportunity stages back into Apollo so reps see pipeline context while sequencing.
  • Land conversation transcripts and outcomes in a warehouse for funnel and chat-to-pipeline analysis.
  • Enrich Drift contact and account records with firmographic or product data from an internal database to sharpen playbook targeting.

Migration with a parallel run

When one CRM is replacing the other, run both fully live until cutover, with no snapshot gap and no data freeze.

Divisional or regional split

Where each CRM serves a different team or region, sync just the shared accounts and contacts so handoffs and cross-sell work.

Where both track pipeline: deal visibility across systems

Deal stage and value on shared accounts stay visible from either CRM.

What you can sync between Apollo.io and Drift

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.

Apollo.io objects Drift objects
Contacts People saved to your Apollo account, synced with emails, phone numbers, and enrichment fields. Contacts Visitor and lead records created or matched from chat identities; the main CRM-sync object.
Accounts Company records with firmographic attributes, matched to CRM accounts during sync. Conversations Chat threads with status and participants; the center of Drift's data model.
People (database records) Prospects from Apollo's global database, pulled into downstream systems once enriched or saved. Messages Individual messages within a conversation, used for transcript and intent analysis.
Sequences Outreach cadences (emailer campaigns in the API); enrollment status is read to track which contacts are being worked. Accounts Company records used for account-based routing and targeting.
Deals (Opportunities) Pipeline records that can be read and written to keep Apollo aligned with the CRM of record. Users Agents and sales reps who own conversations and meetings.
Tasks and calls Rep activity records synced for activity reporting and coaching workflows. Playbooks Bot flows that generate conversations and qualify visitors.
What ships with Apollo.io ⇄ Drift

Connect Apollo.io and Drift for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Apollo.io–Drift connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Apollo.io or Drift instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Apollo.io or Drift 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 Apollo.io or Drift record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Apollo.io ⇄ Drift sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Apollo.io and Drift.

How the Apollo.io and Drift connectors work

Apollo.io

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key (passed in request headers); master keys unlock account-wide endpoints
Change detection
Polling on updated-at timestamps; webhook callbacks exist only for delivering asynchronous enrichment results, not as a general change-event stream
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Rate limits and enrichment credits vary by plan; bulk endpoints are throttled separately from single-record calls

Drift

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via apps registered on the Drift developer platform
Change detection
Webhook events for new conversations, messages, and contact changes; polling for backfills
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits
How it works

How to connect Apollo.io to Drift — 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 Apollo.io and Drift 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
    Apollo.io connected
    Drift connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Apollo.io and Drift 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 · Apollo.io ⇄ Drift
    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
    Apollo.io Drift
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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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