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Elasticsearch to Shipwire integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Elasticsearch and Shipwire 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 Elasticsearch and Shipwire

Give your engineers Shipwire's products, orders, and customers in Elasticsearch: read them with normal queries, write inventory and prices back through the sync, and skip the storefront API.

E-commerce data sits behind an API built for the storefront, not for your internal systems. Teams that need those records, for order routing, inventory logic, reporting, or back-office tools, end up writing integration code against a rate-limited API and maintaining it through every catalog change and platform upgrade.

Stacksync mirrors Receivings, Returns, Purchase Orders, Trackings from Shipwire into Elasticsearch and keeps both sides consistent in real time. Whatever Shipwire holds, whether products, orders, customers, or inventory, those records become rows your code can query, and changes written in Elasticsearch, such as new prices, stock levels, or fulfillment status, sync back into Shipwire with its validations respected.

Merchandising and operations keep working in the storefront, engineers keep working in the database, and neither side has to reconcile against a nightly export.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync CRM accounts and contacts into an Elasticsearch index to power internal search across customer records.
  • 02 Push product catalog data from an ERP or commerce database into Elasticsearch for storefront search.
  • 03 Two-way sync Orders between a storefront or ERP database and Shipwire so new orders create fulfillment requests and Stacksync writes Trackings and status (processed, submitted, delivered) back.
  • 04 Push Products, kits, and their dimensions and pricing from a PIM or ERP into the Shipwire catalog and keep SKUs aligned.

Common sync patterns

Keep catalog and inventory current

Prices, stock levels, or product details maintained in Elasticsearch sync back onto Shipwire, so the storefront shows what your systems treat as true.

Order data where your code can use it

Orders and their status become rows in Elasticsearch for routing, fulfillment, and reporting, without polling the platform.

Controlled write-back

Choose exactly which tables and fields may flow from Elasticsearch back into Shipwire, keeping the store authoritative on what it owns.

What you can sync between Elasticsearch and Shipwire

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.

Elasticsearch objects Shipwire objects How this pairing syncs
Index templates Reusable settings and mappings applied automatically to new indices a sync creates. Returns Return orders raised against existing Orders; created via API and read back into support or analytics systems for reverse-logistics tracking. Index templates is specific to Elasticsearch and Returns to Shipwire — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Indices Target containers for synced records; each holds a table-like collection of JSON documents. Purchase Orders B2B orders with retailer-specific routing and compliance fields; managed via API alongside receivings for wholesale and marketplace fulfillment. Indices is specific to Elasticsearch and Purchase Orders to Shipwire — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Documents The unit of sync; JSON records created, updated, and deleted by _id. Trackings Shipment tracking numbers and carrier status returned as an Order subresource and surfaced through tracking.created, tracking.updated, and tracking.delivered webhook topics. Documents is specific to Elasticsearch and Trackings to Shipwire — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Index mappings Field type definitions that determine how synced fields are indexed and queried. Rates Shipping cost quotes for a cart or order; read-only, called at checkout time to estimate carrier costs rather than synced as stored records. Index mappings is specific to Elasticsearch and Rates to Shipwire — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Aliases Stable read/write names that let a sync cut over between index versions without downtime. Orders B2C fulfillment orders (create, update, cancel, get) with item, hold, routing, and tracking subresources; typically written from a storefront or ERP and synced back with status and trackings. Aliases is specific to Elasticsearch and Orders to Shipwire — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Data streams Append-only targets for time-series or event data pushed from source systems. Products Catalog SKUs including kits, virtual kits, and marketplace products; created and edited via API, commonly mastered in a PIM or ERP and pushed into Shipwire with dimensions and pricing. Data streams is specific to Elasticsearch and Products to Shipwire — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Elasticsearch and Shipwire

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.

Elasticsearch Shipwire Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Elasticsearch for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on timestamp or sequence fields.

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

Shipwire Elasticsearch Sub-second propagation

DetectionShipwire notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks (HMAC-SHA256 signed, near real-time) on order, tracking, stock, receiving, return, and product topics.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Elasticsearch: No fixed request quota; throughput is bounded by cluster sizing, thread pools, and bulk queue capacity.
  • Shipwire: No published per-second request cap; list responses page at 20 items (recommended max ~200) and webhook payloads carry at most 20 items per resource, so large records must be paged via the response next links.
What ships with Elasticsearch ⇄ Shipwire

Connect Elasticsearch and Shipwire for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Elasticsearch or Shipwire instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Elasticsearch or Shipwire 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 Elasticsearch or Shipwire record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Elasticsearch and Shipwire.

How the Elasticsearch and Shipwire connectors work

Elasticsearch

Integration surface
REST API (JSON over HTTP)
Authentication
API keys or basic authentication; Elastic Cloud also issues service account tokens
Change detection
Polling on timestamp or sequence fields; Elasticsearch does not expose a native change feed or webhooks
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No fixed request quota; throughput is bounded by cluster sizing, thread pools, and bulk queue capacity

Shipwire

Integration surface
REST API (v3)
Authentication
Bearer token sent as `Authorization: ShipwireKey <token>`; up to two keys are generated per account on the Users and Roles page, refreshable/expirable, over HTTPS only (separate sandbox at api.beta.shipwire.com)
Change detection
Webhooks (HMAC-SHA256 signed, near real-time) on order, tracking, stock, receiving, return, and product topics; polling the list endpoints as a fallback (no CDC/log stream)
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
No published per-second request cap; list responses page at 20 items (recommended max ~200) and webhook payloads carry at most 20 items per resource, so large records must be paged via the response next links.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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

Elasticsearch and Shipwire integration FAQ

SECURITY

Security teams trust Stacksync

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

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