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IBM Informix to Recurly integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep IBM Informix 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 IBM Informix and Recurly

Work with Recurly's financial data straight from IBM Informix: 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 Coupons and Redemptions, Billing Info, Measured Units and Usage, Accounts from Recurly into Views, TimeSeries objects, Stored procedures, Logical logs in IBM Informix and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against IBM Informix, 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 Trigger revenue-recognition or ERP entries when new_subscription and canceled_subscription webhooks fire.
  • 02 Post usage records to Measured Units on metered Subscriptions from a metering database before each bill run.
  • 03 Keep embedded or edge Informix instances aligned with a central operational database.
  • 04 Feed inventory and transaction data from legacy Informix applications into modern ERPs during migration.

Common sync patterns

Write back safely

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

React to financial events

Changes in Recurly appear in IBM Informix 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 IBM Informix as regular tables or collections your team can join, index, and query.

What you can sync between IBM Informix 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.

IBM Informix objects Recurly objects How this pairing syncs
TimeSeries objects Informix's native time-series type, usually exposed to syncs through virtual tables. 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. TimeSeries objects is specific to IBM Informix and Subscriptions to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Stored procedures Server-side logic sometimes invoked as part of write paths. Plans The product and pricing catalog (plan codes, intervals, add-ons); usually mastered in Recurly and read out, or mirrored from a product database. Stored procedures is specific to IBM Informix and Plans to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Logical logs The transaction log that Informix's CDC interface reads committed changes from. Invoices Charge and credit billing documents; read-heavy for revenue reporting, and creatable through Purchases for one-off charges. Logical logs is specific to IBM Informix and Invoices to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Top-level containers that scope a sync connection. Transactions Individual payment attempts — captures, refunds, and voids; typically read into a warehouse for reconciliation and dunning analysis. Databases is specific to IBM Informix and Transactions to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Relational tables mapped directly to sync targets. Line Items One-time charges and credits on an account outside a subscription; synced for accurate revenue and adjustment reporting. Tables is specific to IBM Informix and Line Items to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Rows The unit of read and write, keyed by primary key. Coupons and Redemptions Discount definitions and their application to accounts and subscriptions; read for discount and promotion analysis. Rows is specific to IBM Informix and Coupons and Redemptions to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between IBM Informix 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.

IBM Informix Recurly Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in IBM Informix are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Informix's Change Data Capture API reading committed changes from logical logs.

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

Recurly IBM Informix 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 IBM Informix as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • IBM Informix: Bounded by server resources and session limits rather than an 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 IBM Informix ⇄ Recurly

Connect IBM Informix and Recurly for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every IBM Informix–Recurly connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in IBM Informix or Recurly instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever IBM Informix 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 IBM Informix or Recurly record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your IBM Informix ⇄ Recurly sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between IBM Informix and Recurly.

How the IBM Informix and Recurly connectors work

IBM Informix

Integration surface
SQL over JDBC/ODBC drivers; DRDA connectivity is also supported
Authentication
Database credentials
Change detection
Informix's Change Data Capture API reading committed changes from logical logs; polling as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Bounded by server resources and session limits rather than an 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 IBM Informix 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 IBM Informix 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
    IBM Informix connected
    Recurly connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the IBM Informix 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 · IBM Informix ⇄ 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
    IBM Informix Recurly
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

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