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

Keep Google Cloud Spanner and Recurly 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 Spanner and Recurly

Work with Recurly'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 Transactions, Line Items, Coupons and Redemptions, Billing Info from Recurly into Views, Databases, Tables, Rows 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 Recurly with validation, so the finance system stays the system of record.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync Accounts and Subscriptions bi-directionally with Postgres so product and provisioning systems read live entitlement state and write plan or seat changes back to Recurly.
  • 02 Trigger revenue-recognition or ERP entries when new_subscription and canceled_subscription webhooks fire.
  • 03 Push billing or entitlement changes from finance tools into Spanner tables the application reads at runtime.
  • 04 Use change streams to feed near-real-time copies of operational tables into an analytics warehouse.

Common sync patterns

React to financial events

Changes in Recurly 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 Recurly 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 Recurly.

What you can sync between Google Cloud Spanner and Recurly

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 Spanner objects Recurly objects How this pairing syncs
Views Read-only projections useful for shaping data before it leaves Spanner. Coupons and Redemptions Discount definitions and their application to accounts and subscriptions; read for discount and promotion analysis. Views is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Coupons and Redemptions to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Top-level containers that scope schema and sync configuration. Billing Info Tokenized payment method (card/ACH) on an account; written when onboarding customers and read for payment-health signals (never stores raw card numbers). Databases is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Billing Info to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Relational tables mapped one-to-one to sync targets. Measured Units and Usage Metered-billing units; usage records are posted to a subscription before each bill run for consumption-based pricing. Tables is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Measured Units and Usage to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Rows The unit of read and write in each sync cycle, keyed by primary key. Accounts Customer/billing entity records keyed by account_code; the anchor most subscriptions and invoices hang off. Synced two-way with CRM accounts or a customer database. Rows is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Accounts to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Interleaved tables Child rows physically co-located with parents; synced as related records. Subscriptions Recurring subscription records tied to an Account and a Plan, with state, term, and next-bill date. Core object, synced two-way to drive provisioning and reporting. Interleaved tables is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Subscriptions to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Secondary indexes Used to make incremental read queries efficient on non-key columns. Plans The product and pricing catalog (plan codes, intervals, add-ons); usually mastered in Recurly and read out, or mirrored from a product database. Secondary indexes is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Plans to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Google Cloud Spanner and Recurly

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 Spanner Recurly 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 Recurly through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Recurly Google Cloud Spanner Sub-second propagation

DetectionRecurly notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks (JSON or XML, one format per endpoint) for account, subscription, payment, and invoice events, plus incremental polling of list endpoints.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Google Cloud Spanner: Throughput is bounded by the instance's provisioned compute capacity rather than a fixed API quota.
  • Recurly: Production sites default to 1,000 requests/min with only GET requests counting toward the limit; sandbox sites 400/min with all requests counting; the limit is a sliding 5-minute window, X-RateLimit headers report the quota, and breaches return HTTP 429.
What ships with Google Cloud Spanner ⇄ Recurly

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

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

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Google Cloud Spanner ⇄ Recurly 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 Spanner and Recurly.

How the Google Cloud Spanner and Recurly connectors work

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.

Recurly

Integration surface
REST API (V3, date-versioned; legacy V2 XML API also exists)
Authentication
API key via HTTP Basic auth (key as username, blank password); keys are per-site, with separate sandbox and production keys
Change detection
Webhooks (JSON or XML, one format per endpoint) for account, subscription, payment, and invoice events, plus incremental polling of list endpoints sorted by updated_at with begin_time/end_time filters
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Production sites default to 1,000 requests/min with only GET requests counting toward the limit; sandbox sites 400/min with all requests counting; the limit is a sliding 5-minute window, X-RateLimit headers report the quota, and breaches return HTTP 429.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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