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

Keep Folk CRM and TimescaleDB 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 TimescaleDB

Treat Folk CRM like part of your database: its records live in TimescaleDB as real tables, and writes in either place sync to the other in seconds.

Product and engineering teams constantly need CRM data, and the CRM API is a poor way to get it: rate limits, pagination, custom objects, and integration code that breaks when an admin renames a field. What they actually want is the data in TimescaleDB, where it can be queried and joined like everything else.

Stacksync mirrors People, Companies, Groups, Custom fields from Folk CRM into Schemas, Hypertables, Chunks, Continuous Aggregates in TimescaleDB with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Folk CRM with validation intact. Go-to-market teams keep working in the CRM, engineers keep working in the database, and neither has to think about the other.

Common use cases

  • Push enriched contact data from a data warehouse into folk custom fields.
  • Mirror folk groups into a reporting database to track pipeline and outreach coverage.
  • Keep device or asset reference tables bi-directionally in sync between TimescaleDB and an ERP.
  • Consolidate metrics from several services into one hypertable to serve a single reporting layer.

Internal tools without API code

Back-office apps read and write the synced tables; Stacksync handles the Folk CRM API, limits, and retries.

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

Field and stage updates in Folk CRM arrive as row changes in TimescaleDB, ready to drive jobs and notifications.

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Folk CRM become tables in TimescaleDB you can join with application data directly.

What you can sync between Folk CRM and TimescaleDB

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 TimescaleDB objects
Companies Organization records linked to people and kept aligned with billing or CS systems. Hypertables Time-partitioned tables that hold the main time-series data; the primary read and write target in syncs.
Groups Shared workspaces that organize contacts; group membership is often the field integrations act on. Chunks Time-bounded partitions of a hypertable; syncs read and write through the parent hypertable and never address chunks directly.
Custom fields Group-scoped attributes that receive enriched or computed values from external systems. Continuous Aggregates Incrementally maintained rollups that serve as pre-aggregated read sources for downstream systems.
Notes Free-text context attached to people and companies, readable for reporting. Regular PostgreSQL Tables Relational reference data such as devices, tenants, or accounts synced alongside the series data.
Reminders Follow-up items that can be created from external triggers. Views Standard SQL views used to shape or filter data for consumers.
People Contact records; the primary entity synced with outreach and enrichment tools. Schemas Postgres namespaces used to separate synced datasets by team or environment.
What ships with Folk CRM ⇄ TimescaleDB

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Folk CRM or TimescaleDB 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 TimescaleDB record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Folk CRM ⇄ TimescaleDB 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 TimescaleDB.

How the Folk CRM and TimescaleDB 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

TimescaleDB

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (PostgreSQL)
Authentication
Database credentials
Change detection
Log-based capture via PostgreSQL logical decoding where the deployment allows it — hypertable changes surface on the underlying chunk tables and must be remapped to the parent — or timestamp-based polling on time columns; regular Postgres tables replicate through standard logical replication
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by database resources and connection limits.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Folk CRM and TimescaleDB 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 ⇄ TimescaleDB
    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 TimescaleDB
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Folk CRM and TimescaleDB 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.

SOC 2 type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA BAA
GDPR
CCPA
CSA STAR
DPF US-EU-UK-CH
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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:

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