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

Keep Google Cloud SQL 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 SQL and Recurly

Work with Recurly's financial data straight from Google Cloud SQL: 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 Accounts, Subscriptions, Plans, Invoices from Recurly into Tables, Rows, Views, Transaction logs in Google Cloud SQL and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against Google Cloud SQL, 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 Migrate from a self-managed database by syncing Cloud SQL and the legacy system during cutover.
  • 04 Keep an internal admin application backed by Cloud SQL consistent with an ERP or billing system.

Common sync patterns

Internal tools without API plumbing

Build dashboards and back-office tools directly on Google Cloud SQL; Stacksync handles the API calls, rate limits, and retries against Recurly.

Write back safely

Updates written to the synced tables in Google Cloud SQL propagate into Recurly, so automations can create or correct finance records without custom integration code.

React to financial events

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

What you can sync between Google Cloud SQL 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 SQL objects Recurly objects How this pairing syncs
Schemas Namespace tables in PostgreSQL and SQL Server instances. Line Items One-time charges and credits on an account outside a subscription; synced for accurate revenue and adjustment reporting. Schemas is specific to Google Cloud SQL and Line Items to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Mapped directly to sync targets; schema changes can be propagated. Coupons and Redemptions Discount definitions and their application to accounts and subscriptions; read for discount and promotion analysis. Tables is specific to Google Cloud SQL and Coupons and Redemptions to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Rows Read and written by primary key during each sync cycle. 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). Rows is specific to Google Cloud SQL and Billing Info to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Read-only sources for shaping data before syncing it out. Measured Units and Usage Metered-billing units; usage records are posted to a subscription before each bill run for consumption-based pricing. Views is specific to Google Cloud SQL and Measured Units and Usage to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Transaction logs MySQL binlog or PostgreSQL WAL, the source for log-based change capture. 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. Transaction logs is specific to Google Cloud SQL and Accounts to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Instances The managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server server a sync connects to. 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. Instances is specific to Google Cloud SQL and Subscriptions to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Google Cloud SQL 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 SQL Recurly Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Google Cloud SQL are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Engine-dependent log-based CDC: MySQL binlog, PostgreSQL logical replication, SQL Server change tracking.

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

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Google Cloud SQL: Constrained by instance size and connection limits rather than API quotas.
  • 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 SQL ⇄ Recurly

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Google Cloud SQL 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 SQL 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 SQL or Recurly record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Google Cloud SQL ⇄ 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 SQL and Recurly.

How the Google Cloud SQL and Recurly connectors work

Google Cloud SQL

Integration surface
Native SQL wire protocols (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) plus a REST admin API for instance management
Authentication
Database credentials; IAM database authentication is available for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Change detection
Engine-dependent log-based CDC: MySQL binlog, PostgreSQL logical replication, SQL Server change tracking; polling as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Constrained by instance size and connection limits rather than API quotas.

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 SQL 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 SQL 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 SQL connected
    Recurly connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

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