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Postgres Heroku to Salesforce integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Postgres Heroku and Salesforce 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 Postgres Heroku and Salesforce

Treat Salesforce 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 Products and Price Books, Custom Objects, Accounts, Contacts from Salesforce into JSONB Columns, Sequences, Follower Databases, Tables in Postgres Heroku with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Salesforce 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

  • Write product usage metrics computed in a warehouse onto Account and Contact fields so reps see adoption signals on the record.
  • Trigger provisioning or billing changes in an operational database when an Opportunity moves to closed-won.
  • Reflect billing and subscription records into the app database so product logic reads local rows
  • Two-way sync between a Heroku app's Postgres and Salesforce as a Heroku Connect alternative, so app writes appear in the CRM and vice versa

Internal tools without API code

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

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

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

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Salesforce become tables in Postgres Heroku you can join with application data directly.

What you can sync between Postgres Heroku and Salesforce

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.

Postgres Heroku objects Salesforce objects
JSONB Columns Semi-structured payloads for nested SaaS objects and metadata. Accounts Company records that anchor most syncs; typically mapped to customer tables in a database or ERP.
Sequences Generate surrogate keys for rows created by inbound syncs. Contacts People linked to Accounts; synced two-way with marketing, support, and warehouse person records.
Follower Databases Heroku-managed read replicas usable as low-impact sync sources. Leads Unqualified prospects; often written into Salesforce from enrichment or product-signup pipelines.
Tables Standard Postgres tables; the primary two-way sync target for app data. Opportunities Deal records with stage and amount; synced to databases for pipeline reporting and to ERPs at close.
Views Read-side projections exposed to outbound syncs. Cases Support records; synced with help desk tools or internal databases for escalation workflows.
Materialized Views Precomputed result sets synced outward on refresh. Campaigns Marketing membership data; read out for attribution analysis in the warehouse.
What ships with Postgres Heroku ⇄ Salesforce

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Postgres Heroku or Salesforce 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 Postgres Heroku or Salesforce record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Postgres Heroku and Salesforce connectors work

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

Salesforce

Integration surface
REST, SOAP, and Bulk APIs
Authentication
OAuth login via a Salesforce user (browser-based authorization flow); requires "API Enabled" permission for polling mode, plus "Author Apex" and "Customize Application" OR "Modify All Data" for trigger mode
Change detection
Apex triggers are used whenever possible (Salesforce actively notifies Stacksync via an Apex trigger + callout class + remote site setting)
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Daily API request allocations vary by edition and license count.
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How it works

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

    Choose tables

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

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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

Securely connects to your systems with:

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

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