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

Keep PostgreSQL and Stripe 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 PostgreSQL and Stripe

Work with Stripe's financial data straight from PostgreSQL: read it with ordinary queries, write to it from your own code, and let Stacksync keep both sides consistent.

Engineers need finance data more often than finance systems make it easy to get: for internal tools, reporting services, or logic that reacts to invoices and payments. Working through the vendor API means rate limits, pagination, and glue code that has to be maintained forever.

Stacksync mirrors Payouts, Balance Transactions, Events, Customers from Stripe into Primary and Unique Keys, JSONB Columns, Sequences, Custom Types and Enums in PostgreSQL and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against PostgreSQL, and rows your code writes or updates flow back into Stripe with validation, so the finance system stays the system of record.

Common use cases

  • Trigger provisioning or deprovisioning in internal systems when subscription status changes
  • Write customer detail updates from internal tools back to Stripe so billing records stay current
  • 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

Internal tools without API plumbing

Build dashboards and back-office tools directly on PostgreSQL; Stacksync handles the API calls, rate limits, and retries against Stripe.

Write back safely

Updates written to the synced tables in PostgreSQL propagate into Stripe, so automations can create or correct finance records without custom integration code.

React to financial events

Changes in Stripe appear in PostgreSQL as row changes, so you can trigger downstream logic with the database tooling you already use.

What you can sync between PostgreSQL and Stripe

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.

PostgreSQL objects Stripe objects
Primary and Unique Keys Used as match keys for idempotent upserts and conflict resolution. PaymentIntents The lifecycle record of a payment attempt, from creation to success or failure.
JSONB Columns Hold semi-structured payloads such as nested SaaS objects or metadata. Charges Individual captured payments underlying intents, used in reconciliation.
Sequences Generate surrogate keys for rows created by inbound syncs. Invoices Billing documents with line items, synced to ERPs and accounting systems.
Custom Types and Enums Constrain synced values to a fixed set, mirroring picklist fields. Subscriptions Recurring billing state that drives provisioning and CRM lifecycle stages.
Tables The primary sync target; rows map one-to-one to records in connected SaaS systems. Products Catalog entries kept aligned with internal product databases.
Views Read-side projections used to expose joined or filtered data to a sync. Prices Amounts and billing intervals attached to products.
What ships with PostgreSQL ⇄ Stripe

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

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

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the PostgreSQL and Stripe connectors work

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

Stripe

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API keys (secret and restricted keys); OAuth 2.0 for Stripe Connect platforms
Change detection
Webhooks backed by the Events API; /v1/events supports replay and backfill
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to documented per-mode request rate limits; idempotency keys make retries safe
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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

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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

Securely connects to your systems with:

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

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