# Contacts in Sync

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-in-sync/52859>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** contacts, webhooks\
**Created:** [March 10, 2022, 1:20am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-in-sync/52859 "2022-03-10T01:20:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Mardo](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Mardo)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 1:20am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-in-sync/52859/1 "2022-03-10T01:20:17Z")

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I wanted to reach out to understand the best practices to integrate Hubspot contacts with the financial system we are working on.

We already have a contact table on our side and I plan on keeping that so we can in a sense cache names for querying datasets, etc.

I would like the flow to have the ability to go both ways. Meaning if a contact is added into Hubspot, it would eventually land in our system also. Is there a webhook that could provide this for contacts getting usperted?

I would also like to update HubSpot when the contact is changed in our system. I assume using HubSpot’s API for this would be the right approach.

Any information on this subject would be much appreciate, thank you in advance.

Marty

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**Author:** ![dennisedson](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/dennisedson/32/28044_2.png) [@dennisedson](https://community.hubspot.com/u/dennisedson)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-in-sync/52859/2 "2022-03-10T16:36:18Z")

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Hi @Mardo

For the first question, webhooks is definitely the way to go. Here is a link to our [webhook documentation](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/webhooks).

The second question would require posting to your HubSpot portal via the [CRM Contacts Object endpoints](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/crm/contacts).

If possible, I would recommend syncing the HubSpot contactID to your external system so you can easily sync it back.

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**Author:** ![Mardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Mardo](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Mardo)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-in-sync/52859/3 "2022-03-10T16:41:21Z")

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Perfect! Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Mardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Mardo](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Mardo)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-in-sync/52859/4 "2022-07-24T17:38:05Z")

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Dennis,

Now do I go about getting previous contacts synced up before the two solutions are working in real-time?  
Thank you,  
Marty