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Braintree to Citus integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Braintree and Citus 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 Braintree and Citus

Work with Braintree's financial data straight from Citus: 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 Add-ons and Discounts, Merchant Accounts and Disbursements, Customers, Transactions from Braintree into Local tables, Schemas, Views, Sequences in Citus and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against Citus, and rows your code writes or updates flow back into Braintree with validation, so the finance system stays the system of record.

Common use cases

  • 01 Create and update Customers and Subscriptions from a CRM or billing app when a deal closes or a plan changes, writing back to Braintree.
  • 02 Push Dispute (chargeback) records into a ticketing tool or database so ops teams track evidence deadlines and win rates.
  • 03 Write CRM or billing records into reference tables so distributed queries can join operational context locally on every node.
  • 04 Use a Citus cluster as the scalable operational store behind a customer-facing app while syncing summaries back to internal tools.

Common sync patterns

Internal tools without API plumbing

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

Write back safely

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

React to financial events

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

What you can sync between Braintree and Citus

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.

Braintree objects Citus objects How this pairing syncs
Plans Recurring billing plans (price, billing cycle) configured in the Control Panel; readable through the API but not creatable, so they sync one-way. Distributed tables Tables sharded across worker nodes by a distribution column; the main sync target for large datasets. Plans is specific to Braintree and Distributed tables to Citus — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Disputes Chargebacks with evidence and deadlines; ops teams can respond and add evidence via the API, and dispute webhooks push status changes to downstream tools. Reference tables Small lookup tables replicated to every node, synced like ordinary Postgres tables. Disputes is specific to Braintree and Reference tables to Citus — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Add-ons and Discounts Modifiers applied to Subscriptions; defined in the Control Panel and read alongside subscription state when mirroring billing data. Local tables Coordinator-only tables that behave exactly like standard PostgreSQL tables. Add-ons and Discounts is specific to Braintree and Local tables to Citus — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Merchant Accounts and Disbursements The accounts funds settle into plus settlement batches paid out; disbursement webhooks and settlement batch reports drive reconciliation feeds. Schemas Standard Postgres namespaces used to scope what a sync user can read and write. Merchant Accounts and Disbursements is specific to Braintree and Schemas to Citus — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Customers Vaulted customer profiles that hold payment methods; created and updated two-way via the API and searchable by created/updated date range. Views Curated projections over distributed data, often used as read-only sync sources. Customers is specific to Braintree and Views to Citus — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Transactions Sales, refunds, and credits; created through the API but immutable after that (only void/refund/settle transitions), so syncs treat them as append-only with status changes. Sequences Key generators that matter when external writes must not collide with application inserts. Transactions is specific to Braintree and Sequences to Citus — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Braintree and Citus

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.

Braintree Citus Sub-second propagation

DetectionBraintree notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks (subscription, transaction, dispute, disbursement, payment method, account updater) for near-real-time events, plus created/updated.

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

Citus Braintree Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Citus are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. PostgreSQL logical decoding / CDC, with caveats: changes to distributed tables occur on worker shards, so CDC setup differs from single-node Postgres.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Braintree: No published hard rate limits; Braintree may throttle traffic it deems abusive and returns HTTP 429, and its docs recommend webhooks over polling with a 60-second request timeout.
What ships with Braintree ⇄ Citus

Connect Braintree and Citus for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Braintree or Citus instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Braintree or Citus 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 Braintree or Citus record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Braintree and Citus.

How the Braintree and Citus connectors work

Braintree

Integration surface
Braintree GraphQL API (single POST endpoint) plus legacy server SDKs
Authentication
API Key authentication — public key + private key Base64-encoded in the Authorization header (HTTP Basic); client tokens/tokenization keys for client-side calls and OAuth for platform/marketplace access
Change detection
Webhooks (subscription, transaction, dispute, disbursement, payment method, account updater) for near-real-time events, plus created/updated date-range search for objects and backfills
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
No published hard rate limits; Braintree may throttle traffic it deems abusive and returns HTTP 429, and its docs recommend webhooks over polling with a 60-second request timeout.

Citus

Integration surface
PostgreSQL wire protocol; any standard Postgres driver connects to the coordinator node
Authentication
Database credentials (standard PostgreSQL authentication; managed deployments add cloud IAM options)
Change detection
PostgreSQL logical decoding / CDC, with caveats: changes to distributed tables occur on worker shards, so CDC setup differs from single-node Postgres
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Braintree and Citus 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 · Braintree ⇄ Citus
    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
    Braintree Citus
    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.

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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