{
  "slug": "qad",
  "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/qad/",
  "name": "QAD Adaptive ERP",
  "vendor": "QAD",
  "aliases": [
    "QAD",
    "QAD Adaptive",
    "QAD Cloud ERP",
    "QAD Enterprise Applications",
    "QAD Enterprise Edition"
  ],
  "website": "https://www.qad.com/solutions/adaptive-erp",
  "category": {
    "slug": "manufacturing-and-distribution-erp",
    "name": "Manufacturing and distribution ERP",
    "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/categories/manufacturing-and-distribution-erp/"
  },
  "summary": "QAD Adaptive ERP holds the customer, the item, the EDI order and the invoice for global manufacturers. What reaches HubSpot while QAD's API docs stay private.",
  "answer": "No. QAD Adaptive ERP has no app in the HubSpot App Marketplace from HubSpot or QAD as of September 2026, and a search for QAD returns only fuzzy matches. We recommend a custom API integration over the REST APIs QAD describes for its platform, at 70 to 150 build hours once your QAD documentation confirms the calls. Where you already run Boomi, which QAD embeds in its software, an iPaaS flow is the alternative.",
  "nativeApp": {
    "status": "none",
    "verifiedAt": "2026-09-28"
  },
  "api": {
    "style": "rest",
    "auth": "unknown",
    "webhooks": "unknown",
    "changedSince": "unknown",
    "sandbox": "unknown"
  },
  "objects": [
    {
      "source": "Customer",
      "hubspot": "company",
      "direction": "to_hubspot",
      "key": "QAD customer code, in a custom HubSpot property",
      "notes": "QAD's Core Model shares one customer record across its applications, so the code is a stable key."
    },
    {
      "source": "Customer contact",
      "hubspot": "contact",
      "direction": "to_hubspot",
      "key": "Email, with the QAD customer code as the tie breaker"
    },
    {
      "source": "Item",
      "hubspot": "product",
      "direction": "to_hubspot",
      "key": "QAD item number"
    },
    {
      "source": "Sales order",
      "hubspot": "custom",
      "direction": "to_hubspot",
      "key": "Sales order number, associated to the company",
      "notes": "Orders arriving by EDI have no deal behind them, so every order lives on the company."
    },
    {
      "source": "Invoice",
      "hubspot": "custom",
      "direction": "to_hubspot",
      "key": "Invoice number, associated to the company and the order"
    }
  ],
  "approaches": [
    {
      "kind": "custom",
      "fit": "recommended",
      "why": "A custom API integration reads QAD's REST APIs on a watermark, takes publish and subscribe events where your release exposes them, and keeps the keys, retries and reconciliation in one service we run."
    },
    {
      "kind": "ipaas",
      "fit": "possible",
      "why": "QAD embeds Boomi connectors in its software under a 2025 alliance, so a business already running Boomi can host the flow there, building the same keys and reconciliation inside it."
    },
    {
      "kind": "native",
      "fit": "avoid",
      "why": "The HubSpot App Marketplace has no QAD Adaptive ERP app from HubSpot, QAD or anyone else, only fuzzy matches for the name."
    }
  ],
  "connectionMethods": [
    "api",
    "ipaas"
  ],
  "effort": {
    "discoveryHours": [
      10,
      20
    ],
    "buildHours": [
      70,
      150
    ],
    "buildBand": "70 to 150 hours",
    "typicalElapsed": "4 to 8 weeks"
  },
  "pattern": "polling-watermark",
  "faqs": [
    {
      "q": "Is there a QAD Adaptive ERP app in the HubSpot App Marketplace?",
      "a": "No. A marketplace search for QAD returns only fuzzy matches, apps whose descriptions mention the term without being built for QAD, and nothing from HubSpot or QAD itself. No third-party developer lists an app named for QAD either, so the connection is a build, whether it runs as a service of its own or as a flow on an iPaaS."
    },
    {
      "q": "Does QAD Adaptive ERP have an API?",
      "a": "Yes. QAD describes REST APIs and microservices in its Enterprise Platform, with entity web services generated automatically, and an Integration Platform built on standard APIs and a publish and subscribe mechanism. QAD does not publish the reference openly, so the calls, the authentication and any limits are confirmed from your own QAD documentation."
    },
    {
      "q": "How does Boomi fit a QAD and HubSpot integration?",
      "a": "QAD and Boomi announced a strategic alliance in 2025 that embeds Boomi connectors in QAD software and adds pre-built integrations. If your business already licenses Boomi, the HubSpot flow can live there. The design still needs keys, watermarks, retries and reconciliation, so an iPaaS moves that logic rather than removing it."
    },
    {
      "q": "How fresh can QAD Adaptive ERP data be in HubSpot?",
      "a": "Hourly on a watermark sweep, and closer to real time where your release lets an outside subscriber receive QAD's publish and subscribe events. Even with events we keep the sweep running, because it catches whatever a lost message would have carried. Freshness therefore depends on the release and licence, which discovery confirms before we promise a number."
    },
    {
      "q": "Can HubSpot write back to QAD Adaptive ERP?",
      "a": "Not in a first build. QAD owns the customer, the item, the price and every order document, and a sales tool is a poor place to originate them. A second phase can create a customer from an approved won deal, once your QAD documentation confirms which API does it and what validation QAD applies on the way in."
    },
    {
      "q": "Does the QAD cloud change a HubSpot integration?",
      "a": "It changes what the integration can reach. QAD runs QAD Adaptive on AWS as its cloud product, so the integration talks to QAD's APIs rather than to a database, and any access rule is arranged with QAD. Customers moving from an older release through QAD's Elevate program should re-test the feed after the move."
    },
    {
      "q": "What happens when a QAD event is lost or arrives twice?",
      "a": "Nothing breaks. Each event only prompts a re-read of the record through the API, and every write into HubSpot is an upsert on QAD's code, so a repeated event updates the same record. A lost event is caught by the watermark sweep on its next run, and reconciliation reports any count that still disagrees."
    },
    {
      "q": "How many hours does a QAD Adaptive ERP and HubSpot integration take?",
      "a": "The work runs to 10 to 20 hours of discovery and 70 to 150 hours of build, for customers, contacts, items, orders and invoices with watermarks, replay and reconciliation. Discovery includes reading your QAD documentation, because authentication, limits and events are confirmed there rather than assumed, and the build band holds once they are."
    }
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "text": "Why teams connect QAD Adaptive ERP to HubSpot",
      "anchor": "#why-teams-connect-qad-adaptive-erp-to-hubspot",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/qad/#why-teams-connect-qad-adaptive-erp-to-hubspot"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "text": "What syncs",
      "anchor": "#what-syncs",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/qad/#what-syncs"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "text": "Architecture",
      "anchor": "#architecture",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/qad/#architecture"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "text": "Three ways to connect",
      "anchor": "#three-ways-to-connect",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/qad/#three-ways-to-connect"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "text": "What breaks and how we prevent it",
      "anchor": "#what-breaks-and-how-we-prevent-it",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/qad/#what-breaks-and-how-we-prevent-it"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "text": "Estimating before reading QAD’s reference",
      "anchor": "#estimating-before-reading-qads-reference",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/qad/#estimating-before-reading-qads-reference"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "text": "Events that go missing",
      "anchor": "#events-that-go-missing",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/qad/#events-that-go-missing"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "text": "EDI orders outside the pipeline",
      "anchor": "#edi-orders-outside-the-pipeline",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/qad/#edi-orders-outside-the-pipeline"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "text": "An upgrade that moves the interface",
      "anchor": "#an-upgrade-that-moves-the-interface",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/qad/#an-upgrade-that-moves-the-interface"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "text": "Our approach",
      "anchor": "#our-approach",
      "url": "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/integrations/qad/#our-approach"
    }
  ],
  "caseStudies": [],
  "guides": [
    "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/guides/choose-a-hubspot-integration-approach/",
    "https://apps.sectorgrowth.com/guides/how-sector-growth-scopes-an-integration/"
  ],
  "status": "published",
  "verifiedAt": "2026-09-28",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-28",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Prash",
      "role": "Lead of Technical Integrations and AI Solutions"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "QAD Adaptive | Enterprise Resource Planning Software Solutions",
      "url": "https://www.qad.com/solutions/adaptive-erp"
    },
    {
      "title": "Integration Platform",
      "url": "https://www.qad.com/solutions/adaptive-erp/integration-platform"
    },
    {
      "title": "2025 Fall Product Launch: Key Enhancements | QAD Blog",
      "url": "https://blog.qad.com/2025/11/2025-fall-product-launch-key-enhancements"
    },
    {
      "title": "Introducing the QAD Enterprise Platform",
      "url": "https://www.qad.com/documents/white-papers/qad-enterprise-platform-white-paper.pdf"
    },
    {
      "title": "QAD and Boomi Forge Strategic Alliance to Redefine Integration for Smart Manufacturing",
      "url": "https://www.qad.com/press-release/qad-and-boomi-forge-strategic-alliance-to-redefine-integration-for-smart-manufacturing"
    },
    {
      "title": "QAD Launches Latest ERP Evolution QAD Adaptive Powered with Agentic Champion AI",
      "url": "https://www.qad.com/press-release/qad-launches-latest-erp-evolution-qad-adaptive-powered-with-agentic-champion-ai"
    },
    {
      "title": "QAD Elevate Program Simplifies ERP Customers Move to the Cloud",
      "url": "https://www.qad.com/press-release/qad-elevate-program-simplifies-erp-customers-move-to-the-cloud"
    },
    {
      "title": "Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of QAD",
      "url": "https://www.qad.com/press-release/thoma-bravo-completes-acquisition-of-qad"
    }
  ]
}