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Front to PostgreSQL integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Front and PostgreSQL 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 Front and PostgreSQL

Mirror Front's data into PostgreSQL so your own code can read and write it like any other table, with changes flowing both ways in seconds.

Engineers integrate with tools like Front through APIs, which means auth, pagination, rate limits, webhooks, and retry logic, all maintained forever and all different for every tool. Meanwhile the data would be trivial to use if it simply lived in PostgreSQL.

Stacksync mirrors Accounts, Inboxes, Tags, Teammates from Front into Schemas, Columns, Primary and Unique Keys, JSONB Columns in PostgreSQL and keeps both sides in sync in real time. Your services query the database directly, and inserts or updates your code makes flow back into Front, so the tool and the database never disagree.

Common use cases

  • Sync conversations, messages, and tags into Postgres for response-time and volume analytics across inboxes.
  • Write CRM account tier, owner, and renewal data into Front contact and account custom fields so it shows next to the conversation.
  • Feed reporting and BI from a continuously synced Postgres replica instead of scheduled ETL scripts
  • Expose SaaS objects (CRM contacts, ERP invoices, support tickets) as Postgres tables that internal tools can query and join

Read Front with a query

Records from Front are ordinary rows in PostgreSQL; join them, index them, and use them in application logic without touching the vendor API.

Automate Front from your codebase

Write to the synced tables in PostgreSQL and Stacksync propagates the change into Front, replacing custom integration code.

React to changes as they happen

Updates in Front arrive as row changes in PostgreSQL, so triggers, jobs, and services can respond in near real time.

What you can sync between Front and PostgreSQL

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.

Front objects PostgreSQL objects
Inboxes Shared queues that conversations live in; used to segment reporting by team or channel. Sequences Generate surrogate keys for rows created by inbound syncs.
Tags Labels applied to conversations; drive routing and category-level analytics. Custom Types and Enums Constrain synced values to a fixed set, mirroring picklist fields.
Teammates Agents; used for ownership mapping and workload reporting. Tables The primary sync target; rows map one-to-one to records in connected SaaS systems.
Channels Connected addresses (email, SMS, chat); define where messages originate and send from. Views Read-side projections used to expose joined or filtered data to a sync.
Conversations The central threaded unit that messages, comments, and tags attach to; synced for support analytics. Materialized Views Precomputed result sets synced outward on a refresh schedule.
Messages Inbound and outbound emails, chats, and SMS within a conversation; read out for response-time reporting. Schemas Namespaces that scope which tables a sync reads and writes.
What ships with Front ⇄ PostgreSQL

Connect Front and PostgreSQL for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Front–PostgreSQL connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Front or PostgreSQL instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Front or PostgreSQL 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 Front or PostgreSQL record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Front ⇄ PostgreSQL sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Front and PostgreSQL.

How the Front and PostgreSQL connectors work

Front

Integration surface
REST API (Core API)
Authentication
OAuth authorization via the Stacksync UI ("Connections" > "create new connection" > "Front" > "Authorize") — no coding required
Change detection
Application webhooks and rule-triggered webhooks, with the events endpoint available for polling
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Request limits vary by plan.
Front setup guide

PostgreSQL

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (PostgreSQL frontend/backend protocol)
Authentication
Database credentials (connection string or parameters), with optional SSL root certificate upload and optional SSH tunnel (SSH user + host); a least-privilege DB user
Change detection
Logical replication (wal_level = logical) for change data capture via the "Postgres" connector; database triggers (TRIGGER grant + stacksync_logging schema) via the trigger-based "Postgres Heroku" connector where
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by connection limits, instance resources, and replication slot throughput
PostgreSQL setup guide
How it works

How to connect Front to PostgreSQL — 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 Front and PostgreSQL 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
    Front connected
    PostgreSQL connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Front and PostgreSQL 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 · Front ⇄ PostgreSQL
    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
    Front PostgreSQL
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

Front and PostgreSQL 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.

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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:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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