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Azure SQL Database to Navan integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Azure SQL Database and Navan 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 Azure SQL Database and Navan

Work with Navan's financial data straight from Azure SQL Database: 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 Custom Fields, Receipts, Repayments, Fees, and Adjustments, Users from Navan into Views, Schemas, Rows and columns, Stored procedures in Azure SQL Database and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against Azure SQL Database, and rows your code writes or updates flow back into Navan with validation, so the finance system stays the system of record.

Common use cases

  • 01 Pull Bookings by date range into a database to reconcile travel reservations against Card Transactions and monitor travel-policy spend.
  • 02 Sync Users and department mappings from an HRIS into reporting tables so every transaction is attributed to a cost center and manager.
  • 03 Consolidate data from several line-of-business apps into one Azure SQL database as an integration hub.
  • 04 Feed an Azure SQL operational database with orders and inventory from an ERP in near real time.

Common sync patterns

Query finance data like any other data

Customers, invoices, and payments from Navan live in Azure SQL Database as regular tables or collections your team can join, index, and query.

Internal tools without API plumbing

Build dashboards and back-office tools directly on Azure SQL Database; Stacksync handles the API calls, rate limits, and retries against Navan.

Write back safely

Updates written to the synced tables in Azure SQL Database propagate into Navan, so automations can create or correct finance records without custom integration code.

What you can sync between Azure SQL Database and Navan

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.

Azure SQL Database objects Navan objects How this pairing syncs
Tables The primary sync target; rows map one-to-one to records in the paired system. Users Employee and cardholder records referenced by every transaction; usually provisioned from an HRIS and used to map spend to people and departments. Tables is specific to Azure SQL Database and Users to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Read-only projections used when the sync should expose a curated shape rather than raw tables. Card Transactions Navan physical and virtual card spend; read via GET, then GL codes, cost centers, and ERP sync status are written back per transaction through the transaction update endpoint. Views is specific to Azure SQL Database and Card Transactions to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas Namespaces that organize tables and control which objects a sync user can reach. Connect Transactions External and personal card feed matched into Navan; retrieved read-only and coded with custom-field values through the transaction update endpoint. Schemas is specific to Azure SQL Database and Connect Transactions to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Rows and columns Standard relational records with typed columns; primary keys anchor upserts. Manual Transactions Out-of-pocket reimbursements and payroll submissions; synced for approval and reimbursement, then GL-coded back into Navan. Rows and columns is specific to Azure SQL Database and Manual Transactions to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Stored procedures Existing business logic that some teams invoke on write instead of direct table inserts. Bookings Flight, hotel, rail, and car reservations from the Booking API; pulled read-only by createdFrom/createdTo date range for trip and travel-spend reporting. Stored procedures is specific to Azure SQL Database and Bookings to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Change tracking / CDC tables System-maintained change records used to drive incremental sync. Custom Fields Company metadata such as cost centers and project codes; discovered via GET and their option lists created or updated via async POST. Change tracking / CDC tables is specific to Azure SQL Database and Custom Fields to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Azure SQL Database and Navan

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Azure SQL Database Navan Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Azure SQL Database are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Change data capture or change tracking, both supported on Azure SQL Database.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Navan through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Navan Azure SQL Database Sub-second propagation

DetectionNavan notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Navan's Expense API supports webhooks for transaction and expense events.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Azure SQL Database as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Navan: Requests are throttled with HTTP 429 and Navan recommends retrying with exponential backoff; the Expense/Public API must first be enabled per account by Navan.
What ships with Azure SQL Database ⇄ Navan

Connect Azure SQL Database and Navan for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Azure SQL Database–Navan connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Azure SQL Database or Navan instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Azure SQL Database or Navan 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 Azure SQL Database or Navan record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Azure SQL Database ⇄ Navan sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Azure SQL Database and Navan.

How the Azure SQL Database and Navan connectors work

Azure SQL Database

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (TDS), the same protocol as SQL Server; T-SQL over standard drivers
Authentication
SQL authentication (database credentials) or Microsoft Entra ID authentication
Change detection
Change data capture or change tracking, both supported on Azure SQL Database; polling as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC

Navan

Integration surface
REST (Expense API and Booking API)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 client-credentials flow; an admin creates a client_id and client_secret under Settings > Integrations and exchanges them at Navan's OAuth token endpoint for a short-lived bearer token that is refreshed on expiry (separate US and EU regional hosts)
Change detection
Navan's Expense API supports webhooks for transaction and expense events; sync engines also poll GET endpoints with date-range and updatedAt filters (createdFrom/createdTo for bookings) to backfill history and reconcile. There is no database-level CDC.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Requests are throttled with HTTP 429 and Navan recommends retrying with exponential backoff; the Expense/Public API must first be enabled per account by Navan.
How it works

How to connect Azure SQL Database to Navan — 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 Azure SQL Database and Navan 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
    Azure SQL Database connected
    Navan connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Azure SQL Database and Navan 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 · Azure SQL Database ⇄ Navan
    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
    Azure SQL Database Navan
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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.

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