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Apollo.io to Postgres Heroku integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Apollo.io and Postgres Heroku 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 Apollo.io and Postgres Heroku

Treat Apollo.io like part of your database: its records live in Postgres Heroku 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 Postgres Heroku, where it can be queried and joined like everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Contacts, Accounts, People (database records), Sequences from Apollo.io into Materialized Views, Schemas, Primary and Unique Keys, JSONB Columns in Postgres Heroku with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Apollo.io 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

  • Deduplicate contacts across Apollo and the CRM by syncing on email as the match key.
  • Push CRM opportunity stages back into Apollo so reps see pipeline context while sequencing.
  • Expose CRM objects as Postgres tables the Heroku application can query and join directly
  • Sync Heroku Postgres into a warehouse for reporting without running ETL dynos

Product events onto CRM records

Signup, usage, or lifecycle changes written to Postgres Heroku sync onto the matching records in Apollo.io, giving go-to-market teams live product context.

Internal tools without API code

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

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

Field and stage updates in Apollo.io arrive as row changes in Postgres Heroku, ready to drive jobs and notifications.

What you can sync between Apollo.io and Postgres Heroku

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.

Apollo.io objects Postgres Heroku objects
Sequences Outreach cadences (emailer campaigns in the API); enrollment status is read to track which contacts are being worked. Sequences Generate surrogate keys for rows created by inbound syncs.
Deals (Opportunities) Pipeline records that can be read and written to keep Apollo aligned with the CRM of record. Follower Databases Heroku-managed read replicas usable as low-impact sync sources.
Tasks and calls Rep activity records synced for activity reporting and coaching workflows. Tables Standard Postgres tables; the primary two-way sync target for app data.
Custom fields Account- and contact-level custom attributes mapped field-by-field in a sync. Views Read-side projections exposed to outbound syncs.
Contacts People saved to your Apollo account, synced with emails, phone numbers, and enrichment fields. Materialized Views Precomputed result sets synced outward on refresh.
Accounts Company records with firmographic attributes, matched to CRM accounts during sync. Schemas Namespaces that scope which tables a sync reads and writes.
What ships with Apollo.io ⇄ Postgres Heroku

Connect Apollo.io and Postgres Heroku for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Apollo.io–Postgres Heroku connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Apollo.io or Postgres Heroku instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Apollo.io or Postgres Heroku 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 Apollo.io or Postgres Heroku record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Apollo.io ⇄ Postgres Heroku sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Apollo.io and Postgres Heroku.

How the Apollo.io and Postgres Heroku connectors work

Apollo.io

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key (passed in request headers); master keys unlock account-wide endpoints
Change detection
Polling on updated-at timestamps; webhook callbacks exist only for delivering asynchronous enrichment results, not as a general change-event stream
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Rate limits and enrichment credits vary by plan; bulk endpoints are throttled separately from single-record calls

Postgres Heroku

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (standard PostgreSQL)
Authentication
Database credentials from the Heroku DATABASE_URL config var; SSL required
Change detection
Trigger-based capture or polling in most configurations; log-based logical replication availability depends on plan and Heroku's managed server settings
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No API rate limits; connection counts and performance are bounded by the Heroku Postgres plan
How it works

How to connect Apollo.io to Postgres Heroku — 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 Apollo.io and Postgres Heroku 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
    Apollo.io connected
    Postgres Heroku connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Apollo.io and Postgres Heroku 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 · Apollo.io ⇄ Postgres Heroku
    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
    Apollo.io Postgres Heroku
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Apollo.io and Postgres Heroku integration FAQ

SECURITY

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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

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