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Lever to Stripe integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Lever and Stripe 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 Lever and Stripe

Keep the employee, department, and cost records that Stripe and Lever share consistent in real time, so the finance system and the people system stop drifting apart.

Stripe runs the money side of the company: who gets paid, what it costs, and which part of the business the cost belongs to. Lever runs the people side: who works here, which team they sit in, and how their employment changes over time. The two overlap on the same people and the same org structure, because every employee is also a payee and every department is also a cost center. When that overlap is maintained by hand, a new hire, a transfer, or a termination has to be keyed twice, and the two systems start to disagree about who is active and where the cost lands.

Stacksync syncs Events, Customers, PaymentIntents, Charges in Stripe with Requisitions, Offers, Users, Stages in Lever bi-directionally and in real time. A person added, updated, or deactivated on either side appears on the other within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of CSV exports and nightly batch jobs.

That matters most when money follows a people event. A hire that finance can pay, a leaver whose access ends, a transfer that redirects cost to the right team, all happen from one change instead of two, so headcount and spend reconcile from the same set of records.

Common use cases

  • 01 Reconcile invoices, payouts, and balance transactions into a warehouse or ERP for month-end close
  • 02 Keep the product and price catalog aligned between Stripe and an internal database that other systems read
  • 03 Two-way sync Opportunities and their Stages between Lever and a Postgres database so recruiting ops and analysts query the pipeline in SQL while recruiters keep working in Lever.
  • 04 Push Postings and Requisitions into an HRIS or warehouse to reconcile approved headcount against open roles.

Common sync patterns

One employee identity

A person's name, ID, or contact details corrected in either system update the other, so finance and HR reference the same person instead of maintaining two versions.

Department and cost-center alignment

The org structure maintained in Lever keeps the departments or cost centers in Stripe current, so spend and headcount roll up the same way.

Status changes propagate

A role, department, or employment-status change in either system updates the other within seconds, so cost allocation, access, and reporting reflect the current state.

What you can sync between Lever and Stripe

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.

Lever objects Stripe objects How this pairing syncs
Stages Pipeline stage definitions that Opportunities move through; read to model funnel state and stage transitions in a database. Subscriptions Recurring billing state that drives provisioning and CRM lifecycle stages. Stages is specific to Lever and Subscriptions to Stripe — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Feedback Interview feedback and scorecard forms attached to Opportunities; created via POST /opportunities/:id/feedback and consolidated into a warehouse for interviewer analytics. Products Catalog entries kept aligned with internal product databases. Feedback is specific to Lever and Products to Stripe — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Interviews Scheduled interview panel events with times and interviewers; read for scheduling reporting and time-to-hire metrics, and creatable via the panels endpoint. Prices Amounts and billing intervals attached to products. Interviews is specific to Lever and Prices to Stripe — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Notes and Contacts Free-text Notes on Opportunities plus the underlying Contact (person) that dedupes multiple Opportunities; notes are posted via POST /opportunities/:id/notes and contact-level tags, sources, and links can be added back for attribution. Refunds Reversals synced into finance systems for accurate revenue reporting. Notes and Contacts is specific to Lever and Refunds to Stripe — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Opportunities The core pipeline record for a candidate applying to a role; replaced the deprecated Candidates endpoint. Created via POST /opportunities and updated (stage, archive, links, tags, sources, files) through the API, and synced two-way with a database or HRIS. Disputes Chargebacks that support and finance teams track in their own tools. Opportunities is specific to Lever and Disputes to Stripe — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Postings Job posting records with categories, apply URLs, workplace type, and requisition codes. Can be created via POST /postings and read into a warehouse for open-role reporting. Payouts Bank transfers reconciled against balance transactions during close. Postings is specific to Lever and Payouts to Stripe — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Lever and Stripe

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.

Lever Stripe Sub-second propagation

DetectionLever notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks for candidate and application lifecycle events (applicationCreated, candidateStageChange, candidateArchiveStateChange, candidateHired,.

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

Stripe Lever Sub-second propagation

DetectionStripe notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks backed by the Events API.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Lever: 10 requests/second per API key with a token-bucket burst to ~20/s; POSTs that create candidates/applications are throttled to roughly 2/second. Sustained overage returns 429 with Retry-After. List endpoints are cursor-paginated at up to 100 records per page.
  • Stripe: Subject to documented per-mode request rate limits; idempotency keys make retries safe.
What ships with Lever ⇄ Stripe

Connect Lever and Stripe for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Lever or Stripe instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Lever or Stripe 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 Lever or Stripe record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Lever and Stripe.

How the Lever and Stripe connectors work

Lever

Integration surface
REST Data API (api.lever.co/v1)
Authentication
API key over HTTP Basic auth (key as username, blank password) for internal integrations, or OAuth 2.0 with 1-hour access tokens for partner integrations (auth.lever.co)
Change detection
Webhooks for candidate and application lifecycle events (applicationCreated, candidateStageChange, candidateArchiveStateChange, candidateHired, interview created/updated/deleted), plus incremental polling via created_at and updated_at range filters on Opportunities
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
10 requests/second per API key with a token-bucket burst to ~20/s; POSTs that create candidates/applications are throttled to roughly 2/second. Sustained overage returns 429 with Retry-After. List endpoints are cursor-paginated at up to 100 records per page.
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Stripe

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API keys (secret and restricted keys); OAuth 2.0 for Stripe Connect platforms
Change detection
Webhooks backed by the Events API; /v1/events supports replay and backfill
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to documented per-mode request rate limits; idempotency keys make retries safe
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Lever and Stripe 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 · Lever ⇄ Stripe
    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
    Lever Stripe
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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