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Close to MotherDuck integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Close and MotherDuck 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 Close and MotherDuck

Sync Close into MotherDuck continuously and push warehouse results back onto CRM records, one two-way connection instead of two pipelines.

The CRM feeds the warehouse and the warehouse should feed the CRM: relationship data flows one way, and computed scores, segments, and customer context flow back. Most teams build the first half as a batch pipeline and never quite get to the second.

Stacksync does both with one connection. Opportunities, Activities, Tasks, Custom Activities from Close land in MotherDuck as live tables, updated within seconds, and columns computed in MotherDuck write back to fields in Close. There is no separate ETL and reverse-ETL stack to stitch together and no jobs to babysit.

Common use cases

  • Sync Close leads and opportunities into Postgres or a warehouse for pipeline reporting outside Close's built-in reports.
  • Two-way sync between Close and a billing or ERP system so closed-won opportunities create customers and invoices automatically.
  • Land CRM and operational database records in MotherDuck so a small team gets warehouse-style analytics without cluster management
  • Sync modeled MotherDuck tables outward to operational tools for activation

Cleanup that sticks

Deduplication and normalization done in MotherDuck can be written back, so warehouse-side cleanup actually fixes the CRM.

CRM analytics on live data

Accounts, contacts, and activity from Close are queryable in MotherDuck moments after they change, so dashboards stop lagging the reality they describe.

Scores and segments back on the record

Lead scores, churn risk, or usage segments computed in MotherDuck appear as fields in Close, where the people working accounts actually see them.

What you can sync between Close and MotherDuck

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.

Close objects MotherDuck objects
Users Sales reps referenced as owners on leads, opportunities, and activities. Databases Cloud-hosted DuckDB databases that scope a sync's reads and writes.
Smart Views Saved lead searches that can scope which records a segment-based sync pulls. Schemas Namespaces within a database used to organize synced tables.
Leads The top-level record in Close; represents a company and holds its contacts, opportunities, and activity history. Tables The main landing target for synced records and source for analysis.
Contacts People nested under a lead, with emails and phone numbers used for outreach syncs. Views Modeled projections used as outbound sync sources.
Opportunities Deal records with value, confidence, and status; commonly synced to reporting and billing systems. Database Shares Read-only copies of a database shared with other users or teams.
Activities Calls, emails, SMS, notes, and meetings logged against a lead; the source for engagement analytics. Attached Local DuckDB Databases Local files attached alongside cloud databases for hybrid queries.
What ships with Close ⇄ MotherDuck

Connect Close and MotherDuck for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Close or MotherDuck instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Close or MotherDuck 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 Close or MotherDuck record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Close and MotherDuck.

How the Close and MotherDuck connectors work

Close

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key (sent via HTTP Basic auth)
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling on date_updated fields for backfills
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to per-endpoint rate limits communicated in response headers

MotherDuck

Integration surface
SQL through DuckDB clients and drivers using a MotherDuck (md:) connection
Authentication
Access token created in MotherDuck (Settings > General > Create Token), pasted into Stacksync; database name and schema configurable if not using defaults
Change detection
Polling; no log-based CDC or webhook surface is exposed
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's compute and concurrency limits rather than per-request API rate limits
MotherDuck setup guide
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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

Close and MotherDuck integration FAQ

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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