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Google Cloud Platform to Navan integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Google Cloud Platform 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 Google Cloud Platform and Navan

Land the financial records from Navan in Google Cloud Platform continuously, and write results back, without building or maintaining a pipeline.

Finance data belongs in the warehouse: revenue, invoices, payments, and customers joined with everything else the business measures. Getting it there usually means an extraction pipeline that breaks quietly and delivers yesterday's numbers.

Stacksync syncs Connect Transactions, Manual Transactions, Bookings, Custom Fields from Navan into tables in Google Cloud Platform in real time, and the connection works in both directions: values computed in Google Cloud Platform can be written back to fields in Navan where you want them operational. Schema changes are handled, API limits are managed, and the sync is something you configure rather than code you maintain.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync Card Transactions and Manual Transactions into Postgres or a warehouse so finance analyzes corporate spend in SQL without manual CSV exports.
  • 02 Push coded expense transactions into an accounting system, then set their ERP sync status in Navan so the same records are not exported twice.
  • 03 Publish change events to Pub/Sub so downstream services react to record updates as they happen.

Common sync patterns

Revenue joined with everything else

Analysts combine Navan's financial records with product, marketing, or operational data already in Google Cloud Platform for reporting the finance system cannot do alone.

Write-back of computed fields

Scores or segments computed in Google Cloud Platform, like payment-risk flags or customer tiers, sync back onto records in Navan where the finance team can act on them.

Queryable history for audit and reconciliation

A continuously synced copy in Google Cloud Platform gives you a durable, queryable record of financial data for month-end and audit questions.

What you can sync between Google Cloud Platform 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.

Google Cloud Platform objects Navan objects How this pairing syncs
Spanner tables Strongly consistent relational tables accessed via SQL for transactional workloads. Custom Fields Company metadata such as cost centers and project codes; discovered via GET and their option lists created or updated via async POST. Spanner tables is specific to Google Cloud Platform and Custom Fields to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
BigQuery datasets Namespaces that group tables; syncs target tables within a dataset. Receipts Receipt images tied to each transaction; fetched read-only through presigned URLs for archival in a warehouse or document store. BigQuery datasets is specific to Google Cloud Platform and Receipts to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
BigQuery tables The primary analytics destination, written through load jobs or the Storage Write API and queried with SQL. Repayments, Fees, and Adjustments Money-movement records including repayments, FX and platform fees, and credit or debit memos; read-only for reconciliation ledgers. BigQuery tables is specific to Google Cloud Platform and Repayments, Fees, and Adjustments to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Cloud SQL databases Managed Postgres, MySQL, and SQL Server instances synced like ordinary relational databases. Users Employee and cardholder records referenced by every transaction; usually provisioned from an HRIS and used to map spend to people and departments. Cloud SQL databases is specific to Google Cloud Platform and Users to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Cloud Storage objects Staging area for file-based bulk loads into BigQuery and other services. 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. Cloud Storage objects is specific to Google Cloud Platform and Card Transactions to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Pub/Sub topics Event streams used to move change events between systems in near real time. Connect Transactions External and personal card feed matched into Navan; retrieved read-only and coded with custom-field values through the transaction update endpoint. Pub/Sub topics is specific to Google Cloud Platform and Connect Transactions to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Google Cloud Platform 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.

Google Cloud Platform Navan Sub-second propagation

DetectionGoogle Cloud Platform pushes changes as they happen — webhook events backed by change data capture. Varies by service: log-based CDC on Cloud SQL (logical replication or binlog, also via Datastream), Pub/Sub for event delivery, polling for BigQuery.

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

Navan Google Cloud Platform 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 Google Cloud Platform as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Google Cloud Platform: Quotas are set per service and per project; BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL each enforce their own limits.
  • 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 Google Cloud Platform ⇄ Navan

Connect Google Cloud Platform and Navan for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Google Cloud Platform 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 Google Cloud Platform or Navan record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Google Cloud Platform and Navan.

How the Google Cloud Platform and Navan connectors work

Google Cloud Platform

Integration surface
Per-service REST and gRPC APIs; BigQuery speaks SQL and Cloud SQL exposes standard database wire protocols
Authentication
IAM service accounts with OAuth 2.0 tokens
Change detection
Varies by service: log-based CDC on Cloud SQL (logical replication or binlog, also via Datastream), Pub/Sub for event delivery, polling for BigQuery tables
Capabilities
read · write · CDC · webhooks
Rate limits
Quotas are set per service and per project; BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloud SQL each enforce their own limits

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 Google Cloud Platform 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 Google Cloud Platform 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
    Google Cloud Platform connected
    Navan connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Google Cloud Platform 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 · Google Cloud Platform ⇄ 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
    Google Cloud Platform 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.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

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