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Bill to Google Cloud Spanner integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Bill and Google Cloud Spanner 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 Bill and Google Cloud Spanner

Work with Bill's financial data straight from Google Cloud Spanner: 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 Invoices, Customers, Payments, Chart of Accounts from Bill into Secondary indexes, Change streams, Views, Databases in Google Cloud Spanner and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against Google Cloud Spanner, and rows your code writes or updates flow back into Bill with validation, so the finance system stays the system of record.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync Customers and Invoices from BILL AR into a CRM or ERP so sales and finance see billing and payment status on the account.
  • 02 Write Vendors created during ERP onboarding into BILL so new payees are ready to pay without manual re-entry.
  • 03 Consolidate data from a globally distributed Spanner deployment into regional business systems.
  • 04 Push billing or entitlement changes from finance tools into Spanner tables the application reads at runtime.

Common sync patterns

React to financial events

Changes in Bill appear in Google Cloud Spanner as row changes, so you can trigger downstream logic with the database tooling you already use.

Query finance data like any other data

Customers, invoices, and payments from Bill live in Google Cloud Spanner 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 Google Cloud Spanner; Stacksync handles the API calls, rate limits, and retries against Bill.

What you can sync between Bill and Google Cloud Spanner

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.

Bill objects Google Cloud Spanner objects How this pairing syncs
Vendor Credits and Credit Memos AP and AR adjustments applied against bills and invoices; synced so balances stay accurate on both sides. Secondary indexes Used to make incremental read queries efficient on non-key columns. Vendor Credits and Credit Memos is specific to Bill and Secondary indexes to Google Cloud Spanner — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Bills Accounts-payable amounts owed to vendors, with bill line items; read and created via /v3/bills and pulled incrementally by filtering on createdTime/updatedTime. Change streams Capture inserts, updates, and deletes for log-style change data capture. Bills is specific to Bill and Change streams to Google Cloud Spanner — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Vendors Payee master records; synced two-way with vendor/supplier tables in an ERP or accounting system so new payees don't have to be re-keyed. Views Read-only projections useful for shaping data before it leaves Spanner. Vendors is specific to Bill and Views to Google Cloud Spanner — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Invoices Accounts-receivable invoices sent to customers; created and read via /v3/invoices to keep billing status aligned with the ERP or CRM. Databases Top-level containers that scope schema and sync configuration. Invoices is specific to Bill and Databases to Google Cloud Spanner — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Customers AR customer master records; mapped to customer/account records in a CRM or ERP so finance and sales share one view. Tables Relational tables mapped one-to-one to sync targets. Customers is specific to Bill and Tables to Google Cloud Spanner — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Payments Outgoing vendor payments and received customer payments; read for reconciliation and created to schedule bill pay. Rows The unit of read and write in each sync cycle, keyed by primary key. Payments is specific to Bill and Rows to Google Cloud Spanner — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Bill and Google Cloud Spanner

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.

Bill Google Cloud Spanner Sub-second propagation

DetectionBill notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhook event subscriptions (POST /v3/subscriptions) for bills, vendors, payments, invoices, and bank accounts, with polling on.

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

Google Cloud Spanner Bill Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Google Cloud Spanner are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Change streams (log-style CDC), or timestamp-based polling queries.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Bill: 20,000 requests per developer key per hour; login (POST /v3/login) capped at 200/hour; maximum 3 concurrent requests per developer key per organization. Spend & Expense API is a separate token at 60 calls/token/minute.
  • Google Cloud Spanner: Throughput is bounded by the instance's provisioned compute capacity rather than a fixed API quota.
What ships with Bill ⇄ Google Cloud Spanner

Connect Bill and Google Cloud Spanner for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Bill–Google Cloud Spanner connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Bill or Google Cloud Spanner instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Bill or Google Cloud Spanner 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 Bill or Google Cloud Spanner record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Bill ⇄ Google Cloud Spanner sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Bill and Google Cloud Spanner.

How the Bill and Google Cloud Spanner connectors work

Bill

Integration surface
REST/JSON (BILL v3 Connect API)
Authentication
Session-based: POST /v3/login with username, password, organizationId, and a developer key (devKey) returns a sessionId that is passed with the devKey as headers on every subsequent call; OAuth is available for partner/embedded apps
Change detection
Webhook event subscriptions (POST /v3/subscriptions) for bills, vendors, payments, invoices, and bank accounts, with polling on createdTime/updatedTime list filters as the fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
20,000 requests per developer key per hour; login (POST /v3/login) capped at 200/hour; maximum 3 concurrent requests per developer key per organization. Spend & Expense API is a separate token at 60 calls/token/minute.

Google Cloud Spanner

Integration surface
gRPC/REST client API with SQL query surface (GoogleSQL and PostgreSQL-interface dialects)
Authentication
Google Cloud IAM (service accounts)
Change detection
Change streams (log-style CDC), or timestamp-based polling queries
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Throughput is bounded by the instance's provisioned compute capacity rather than a fixed API quota.
How it works

How to connect Bill to Google Cloud Spanner — 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 Bill and Google Cloud Spanner 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
    Bill connected
    Google Cloud Spanner connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Bill and Google Cloud Spanner 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 · Bill ⇄ Google Cloud Spanner
    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
    Bill Google Cloud Spanner
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Bill and Google Cloud Spanner integration FAQ

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SSO & SCIM

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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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