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Magento to MySQL integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Magento and MySQL 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 Magento and MySQL

Give your engineers Magento's products, orders, and customers in MySQL: read them with normal queries, write inventory and prices back through the sync, and skip the storefront API.

E-commerce data sits behind an API built for the storefront, not for your internal systems. Teams that need those records, for order routing, inventory logic, reporting, or back-office tools, end up writing integration code against a rate-limited API and maintaining it through every catalog change and platform upgrade.

Stacksync mirrors Categories, Orders, Customers, Inventory source items (MSI) from Magento into MySQL and keeps both sides consistent in real time. Whatever Magento holds, whether products, orders, customers, or inventory, those records become rows your code can query, and changes written in MySQL, such as new prices, stock levels, or fulfillment status, sync back into Magento with its validations respected.

Merchandising and operations keep working in the storefront, engineers keep working in the database, and neither side has to reconcile against a nightly export.

Common use cases

  • 01 Keep e-commerce orders in MySQL flowing into finance and fulfillment systems without export scripts
  • 02 Feed a warehouse from MySQL continuously using binlog-based capture instead of nightly dumps
  • 03 Sync Orders, invoices, and shipments from Magento into Postgres or a warehouse for revenue, margin, and fulfillment-SLA reporting.
  • 04 Master Products, prices, and Category assignments in an ERP or PIM and write them into Magento's catalog by SKU.

Common sync patterns

Internal tools and automations without API code

Scripts and services read and write the synced tables; Stacksync handles the Magento API, rate limits, and retries.

React to store changes

Updates in Magento arrive as row changes in MySQL, so jobs and triggers can respond the moment an order, price, or stock level changes.

Keep catalog and inventory current

Prices, stock levels, or product details maintained in MySQL sync back onto Magento, so the storefront shows what your systems treat as true.

What you can sync between Magento and MySQL

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.

Magento objects MySQL objects How this pairing syncs
Products Catalog items keyed by SKU; carry created_at/updated_at for incremental polling and are written two-way from a PIM or ERP into the storefront. Stored Procedures Server-side logic that can post-process synced rows. Products is specific to Magento and Stored Procedures to MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Configurable / variant products Parent configurable products link to simple product variants by attribute; synced so size/color SKUs and their prices stay aligned with source systems. Triggers An alternative change-capture mechanism when binlog access is unavailable. Configurable / variant products is specific to Magento and Triggers to MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Categories Catalog tree and product-to-category assignments; written into Magento to control merchandising and read out for taxonomy reporting. Databases (Schemas) Top-level namespaces that scope a sync's reads and writes. Categories is specific to Magento and Databases (Schemas) to MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Orders Sales orders with line items, totals, and status; typically read out of Magento into a warehouse or ERP for fulfillment and revenue reporting. Tables The primary sync target; rows map to records in connected systems. Orders is specific to Magento and Tables to MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Customers Customer accounts and address book; synced two-way with a CRM so order history and contact records stay consistent. Views Read-side projections used as outbound sync sources. Customers is specific to Magento and Views to MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Inventory source items (MSI) Per-source stock quantities under Multi-Source Inventory; written from a WMS/ERP so storefront stock matches the warehouse. Columns Field-level mapping targets with engine-typed values. Inventory source items (MSI) is specific to Magento and Columns to MySQL — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Magento and MySQL

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.

Magento MySQL Sub-second propagation

DetectionMagento notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Polling with searchCriteria filters on updated_at (catalog, sales, and customer entities carry created_at/updated_at).

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

MySQL Magento Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in MySQL are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Database triggers — Stacksync creates deterministic triggers for internal logging and syncing (requires log_bin_trust_function_creators=ON when.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Magento: No fixed request-per-minute cap on PaaS/on-prem; responses page via searchCriteria pageSize/currentPage under a default maximum page size of 300 (Web API Input Limits), with /async/bulk endpoints for large writes.
  • MySQL: No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by connection limits and server resources.
What ships with Magento ⇄ MySQL

Connect Magento and MySQL for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Magento or MySQL instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Magento or MySQL 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 Magento or MySQL record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Magento and MySQL.

How the Magento and MySQL connectors work

Magento

Integration surface
REST and GraphQL Web APIs (SOAP also available)
Authentication
Token-based OAuth: an integration's access token (consumer key/secret + access token/secret) or a Bearer admin token (default 4-hour expiry); Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service authenticates via Adobe IMS (OAuth 2)
Change detection
Polling with searchCriteria filters on updated_at (catalog, sales, and customer entities carry created_at/updated_at); optional near-real-time via the Adobe Commerce Webhooks / Adobe I/O Events modules (order/created, product/updated, customer/created)
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
No fixed request-per-minute cap on PaaS/on-prem; responses page via searchCriteria pageSize/currentPage under a default maximum page size of 300 (Web API Input Limits), with /async/bulk endpoints for large writes.

MySQL

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (MySQL client/server protocol)
Authentication
Database credentials entered as a connection string or parameters, with optional SSL root certificate upload and optional SSH tunnel (SSH user + SSH host)
Change detection
Database triggers — Stacksync creates deterministic triggers for internal logging and syncing (requires log_bin_trust_function_creators=ON when binary logging is enabled)
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by connection limits and server resources
MySQL setup guide
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Magento and MySQL 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 · Magento ⇄ MySQL
    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
    Magento MySQL
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

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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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