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Folk CRM to GitHub integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Folk CRM and GitHub 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 Folk CRM and GitHub

Sync what happens in GitHub with the customer records in Folk CRM, in real time and in both directions.

The CRM is supposed to be the record of every customer relationship, but customer-relevant information also accumulates in the other tools a team runs. Whatever GitHub holds or produces that touches a customer, whether conversations, payments, replies, enriched data, or notes, the CRM only benefits if it arrives without someone copying it over.

Stacksync connects Issues, Pull Requests, Commits, Releases in GitHub to Groups, Custom fields, Notes, Reminders in Folk CRM with bi-directional, real-time sync. Activity and record changes in GitHub update the matching contact or account in Folk CRM, and CRM data flows the other way wherever GitHub can store and use it.

Common use cases

  • Sync organization and team membership with an identity or HR system to automate access reviews and offboarding.
  • Create GitHub issues automatically from records written elsewhere, such as bug reports logged in a CRM case object.
  • Sync folk people and companies with a marketing or outbound tool so outreach lists stay current.
  • Push enriched contact data from a data warehouse into folk custom fields.

Where GitHub supplies contact or company data

Enriched fields land directly on records in Folk CRM, and refreshes keep them from going stale.

Where GitHub can store CRM context: fields kept current

Owner, lifecycle stage, or account details from Folk CRM sync into GitHub, so people working there have the context without switching tools.

Where GitHub handles support or shared inboxes

Tickets and conversations attach to the right contact and account in Folk CRM, so sales sees open issues before the next call.

What you can sync between Folk CRM and GitHub

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.

Folk CRM objects GitHub objects
Custom fields Group-scoped attributes that receive enriched or computed values from external systems. Users Author and assignee identities matched to internal directories.
Notes Free-text context attached to people and companies, readable for reporting. Labels and Milestones Classification fields mapped to statuses and sprints in external trackers.
Reminders Follow-up items that can be created from external triggers. Repositories Top-level containers whose metadata and settings syncs read to scope other objects.
People Contact records; the primary entity synced with outreach and enrichment tools. Issues Synced two-way with project trackers and support tools, including labels and assignees.
Companies Organization records linked to people and kept aligned with billing or CS systems. Pull Requests Review state, status checks, and merge status feed engineering dashboards and workflow tools.
Groups Shared workspaces that organize contacts; group membership is often the field integrations act on. Commits Read-only history used to link code activity to tickets and releases.
What ships with Folk CRM ⇄ GitHub

Connect Folk CRM and GitHub for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Folk CRM–GitHub connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Folk CRM or GitHub instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Folk CRM or GitHub 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 Folk CRM or GitHub record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Folk CRM ⇄ GitHub sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Folk CRM and GitHub.

How the Folk CRM and GitHub connectors work

Folk CRM

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key (Bearer token)
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling of list endpoints as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits

GitHub

Integration surface
REST API and GraphQL API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0, fine-grained personal access tokens, or GitHub App installation tokens
Change detection
Webhooks with a broad event catalog covering issues, pull requests, pushes, and releases; polling for backfill
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Authenticated REST requests are limited to 5,000 per hour per user; GitHub Apps scale limits per installation.
How it works

How to connect Folk CRM to GitHub — 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 Folk CRM and GitHub 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
    Folk CRM connected
    GitHub connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Folk CRM and GitHub 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 · Folk CRM ⇄ GitHub
    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
    Folk CRM GitHub
    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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