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BambooHR to Materialize integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep BambooHR and Materialize 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 BambooHR and Materialize

Land the people and organization records from BambooHR in Materialize as live tables for workforce reporting, without extract jobs, and write computed results back where BambooHR can use them.

Workforce data is some of the most requested data in the warehouse and some of the most awkward to move: the record types are many, the fields carry sensitive personal information, the APIs are strict, and hand-built extract jobs go stale or break quietly. Whether BambooHR is the system of record for employees and payroll, for candidates and applications, or for learners and course completions, the reporting belongs in Materialize next to everything else the company measures.

Stacksync syncs Compensation, Time Off, Employment Status, Departments and Divisions from BambooHR into tables in Materialize continuously, handling API limits and schema drift as they come. The connection is bi-directional, so values computed in Materialize, such as headcount rollups, cost allocations, or attrition risk flags, can be written back to fields in BambooHR where the HR team acts on them. You configure which records and fields cross over, and in which direction, instead of maintaining pipeline code.

Common use cases

  • 01 Bridge streaming sources and non-streaming destinations by materializing joins across both.
  • 02 Sync operational CRM or ERP data into Materialize so real-time views stay current without batch loads.
  • 03 Sync Employees and Employment Status to identity and IT systems so new hires are provisioned and departures deactivated automatically.
  • 04 Read Job Information and Departments into an ERP or planning tool so headcount, cost centers, and org structure stay current.

Common sync patterns

Headcount and cost joined with everything else

Analysts combine BambooHR's workforce records with finance, product, or operational data already in Materialize for reporting the HR system cannot produce on its own.

Fresh data instead of last night's load

Because changes stream continuously, reports query current workforce data rather than waiting for an overnight load window to finish.

Queryable history for planning and audit

A continuously synced copy in Materialize gives you a durable, queryable record of how BambooHR's records change over time, for headcount planning and audit questions.

What you can sync between BambooHR and Materialize

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.

BambooHR objects Materialize objects How this pairing syncs
Employment Status Effective-dated hire, leave, and termination status; drives automated provisioning and deprovisioning in downstream identity and license systems. Connections & Secrets Stored credentials and endpoints used by sources and sinks. Employment Status is specific to BambooHR and Connections & Secrets to Materialize — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Departments and Divisions Org-structure list values; synced to keep cost centers and team groupings consistent across ERP, identity, and analytics systems. Schemas & Databases Namespaces that organize objects a sync targets. Departments and Divisions is specific to BambooHR and Schemas & Databases to Materialize — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Custom Tables Company-specific effective-dated tables (assets, training, certifications); rows read and written so custom HR data isn't trapped in the HRIS. Tables User-managed tables that accept INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE from sync pipelines. Custom Tables is specific to BambooHR and Tables to Materialize — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Reports Saved company reports retrievable via API; read out on a schedule to feed a warehouse without rebuilding field-by-field queries. Sources Ingestion points (Kafka, Postgres CDC, MySQL CDC, webhook) that feed external data into Materialize. Reports is specific to BambooHR and Sources to Materialize — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Employees The core person record with personal and work fields; read out to identity, payroll, and IT systems, and written back from recruiting or onboarding tools. Materialized Views Incrementally maintained query results that syncs read as continuously up-to-date datasets. Employees is specific to BambooHR and Materialized Views to Materialize — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Job Information Effective-dated job title, department, division, location, and reporting line; synced so org charts and provisioning systems track internal moves. Sinks Outbound connections that emit view changes to Kafka topics. Job Information is specific to BambooHR and Sinks to Materialize — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between BambooHR and Materialize

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.

BambooHR Materialize Sub-second propagation

DetectionBambooHR notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. The Get Updated Employee IDs endpoint (last-changed timestamps) returns employees inserted, updated, or deleted since a cursor for efficient polling.

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

Materialize BambooHR Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Materialize are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. SUBSCRIBE queries stream row-level changes of any view or table to the client.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • BambooHR: Requests are rate-limited per API key with standard REST throttling (429 on excess); bulk reads are best done through saved Reports or the updated-IDs delta endpoint rather than per-employee calls.
What ships with BambooHR ⇄ Materialize

Connect BambooHR and Materialize for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in BambooHR or Materialize instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever BambooHR or Materialize 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 BambooHR or Materialize record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between BambooHR and Materialize.

How the BambooHR and Materialize connectors work

BambooHR

Integration surface
BambooHR API (REST, per-company subdomain)
Authentication
API key per user over HTTP Basic auth (key as username), scoped to that user's permission level in BambooHR; OAuth/OpenID available for SSO-enabled apps
Change detection
The Get Updated Employee IDs endpoint (last-changed timestamps) returns employees inserted, updated, or deleted since a cursor for efficient polling; webhooks can fire on monitored field changes
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Requests are rate-limited per API key with standard REST throttling (429 on excess); bulk reads are best done through saved Reports or the updated-IDs delta endpoint rather than per-employee calls.

Materialize

Integration surface
PostgreSQL wire protocol (SQL)
Authentication
Database credentials (username/password; app passwords in the managed cloud service)
Change detection
SUBSCRIBE queries stream row-level changes of any view or table to the client
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the BambooHR and Materialize 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 · BambooHR ⇄ Materialize
    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
    BambooHR Materialize
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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:

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