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Magento to SQL Server integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Magento and SQL Server 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 SQL Server

Give your engineers Magento's products, orders, and customers in SQL Server: 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 Products, Configurable / variant products, Categories, Orders from Magento into SQL Server 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 SQL Server, 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 Mirror on-premises ERP data held in SQL Server into cloud CRM and support systems
  • 02 Feed a cloud warehouse from SQL Server continuously using native CDC instead of SSIS batch jobs
  • 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

Keep catalog and inventory current

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

Order data where your code can use it

Orders and their status become rows in SQL Server for routing, fulfillment, and reporting, without polling the platform.

Controlled write-back

Choose exactly which tables and fields may flow from SQL Server back into Magento, keeping the store authoritative on what it owns.

What you can sync between Magento and SQL Server

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 SQL Server objects How this pairing syncs
Customers Customer accounts and address book; synced two-way with a CRM so order history and contact records stay consistent. Tables The primary sync target; rows map to records in connected systems. Customers is specific to Magento and Tables to SQL Server — 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. Views Read-side projections used as outbound sync sources. Inventory source items (MSI) is specific to Magento and Views to SQL Server — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Invoices Invoice documents tied to orders; read out for finance and revenue recognition, or created via the sales API when billing downstream. Columns Field-level mapping targets with T-SQL types. Invoices is specific to Magento and Columns to SQL Server — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Shipments Shipment and tracking records against orders; created or read to drive fulfillment status between Magento and a 3PL/WMS. Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts and conflict handling. Shipments is specific to Magento and Primary and Unique Keys to SQL Server — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Carts / quotes Active and guest carts (quotes) with items and totals; read for abandoned-cart analysis (not available on the Cloud Service subset). CDC Change Tables System-populated tables holding captured inserts, updates, and deletes for consumers. Carts / quotes is specific to Magento and CDC Change Tables to SQL Server — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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 T-SQL logic that can validate or post-process synced rows. Products is specific to Magento and Stored Procedures to SQL Server — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Magento and SQL Server

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

SQL Server Magento Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in SQL Server are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. SQL Server Native Change Data Capture (CDC).

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.
  • SQL Server: No API rate limits; throughput depends on instance resources, licensing tier, and connection limits.
What ships with Magento ⇄ SQL Server

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Magento or SQL Server 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 SQL Server record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Magento ⇄ SQL Server 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 SQL Server.

How the Magento and SQL Server 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.

SQL Server

Integration surface
SQL over the TDS wire protocol (Tabular Data Stream), via ODBC/JDBC/ADO.NET drivers
Authentication
Database credentials entered as a connection string or as parameters (host/user/password) in the Create New Sync page
Change detection
SQL Server Native Change Data Capture (CDC); a DBA runs a one-time setup script with sysadmin privileges to enable CDC and create Stacksync wrapper procedures
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput depends on instance resources, licensing tier, and connection limits
SQL Server setup guide
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Magento and SQL Server 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 ⇄ SQL Server
    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 SQL Server
    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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