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Navan to Tinybird integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Navan and Tinybird 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 Navan and Tinybird

Land the financial records from Navan in Tinybird continuously, and write results back, without building or maintaining a pipeline.

Finance data belongs in the warehouse: revenue, invoices, payments, and customers joined with everything else the business measures. Getting it there usually means an extraction pipeline that breaks quietly and delivers yesterday's numbers.

Stacksync syncs Bookings, Custom Fields, Receipts, Repayments, Fees, and Adjustments from Navan into tables in Tinybird in real time, and the connection works in both directions: values computed in Tinybird can be written back to fields in Navan where you want them operational. Schema changes are handled, API limits are managed, and the sync is something you configure rather than code you maintain.

Common use cases

  • 01 Push coded expense transactions into an accounting system, then set their ERP sync status in Navan so the same records are not exported twice.
  • 02 Pull Bookings by date range into a database to reconcile travel reservations against Card Transactions and monitor travel-policy spend.
  • 03 Stream CRM activity such as deals and tickets into Tinybird Data Sources to power customer-facing dashboards.
  • 04 Sync order events from an ERP into Tinybird to serve low-latency operational analytics endpoints.

Common sync patterns

Write-back of computed fields

Scores or segments computed in Tinybird, like payment-risk flags or customer tiers, sync back onto records in Navan where the finance team can act on them.

Queryable history for audit and reconciliation

A continuously synced copy in Tinybird gives you a durable, queryable record of financial data for month-end and audit questions.

Finance analytics without ETL

Invoices, payments, and customer records from Navan arrive in Tinybird as queryable tables, current within seconds instead of a day behind.

What you can sync between Navan and Tinybird

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.

Navan objects Tinybird objects How this pairing syncs
Bookings Flight, hotel, rail, and car reservations from the Booking API; pulled read-only by createdFrom/createdTo date range for trip and travel-spend reporting. Tokens Scoped credentials that control read and append rights per resource. Bookings is specific to Navan and Tokens to Tinybird — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Custom Fields Company metadata such as cost centers and project codes; discovered via GET and their option lists created or updated via async POST. Data Sources ClickHouse-backed tables that receive ingested rows; the write target for syncs into Tinybird. Custom Fields is specific to Navan and Data Sources to Tinybird — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Receipts Receipt images tied to each transaction; fetched read-only through presigned URLs for archival in a warehouse or document store. Pipes Chained SQL nodes that transform Data Sources into query-ready results. Receipts is specific to Navan and Pipes to Tinybird — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Repayments, Fees, and Adjustments Money-movement records including repayments, FX and platform fees, and credit or debit memos; read-only for reconciliation ledgers. API Endpoints Published Pipe outputs exposed as parameterized HTTP queries; the main read surface. Repayments, Fees, and Adjustments is specific to Navan and API Endpoints to Tinybird — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Users Employee and cardholder records referenced by every transaction; usually provisioned from an HRIS and used to map spend to people and departments. Materialized Views Pipes materialized into new Data Sources for pre-aggregation at ingest time. Users is specific to Navan and Materialized Views to Tinybird — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Card Transactions Navan physical and virtual card spend; read via GET, then GL codes, cost centers, and ERP sync status are written back per transaction through the transaction update endpoint. Workspaces Project boundary that scopes Data Sources, Pipes, and tokens for a sync. Card Transactions is specific to Navan and Workspaces to Tinybird — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Navan and Tinybird

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.

Navan Tinybird Sub-second propagation

DetectionNavan notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Navan's Expense API supports webhooks for transaction and expense events.

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

Tinybird Navan Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Tinybird for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Append-oriented ingestion.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Navan: Requests are throttled with HTTP 429 and Navan recommends retrying with exponential backoff; the Expense/Public API must first be enabled per account by Navan.
  • Tinybird: Subject to the platform's ingestion and query rate limits; batch appends where possible.
What ships with Navan ⇄ Tinybird

Connect Navan and Tinybird for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Navan or Tinybird instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Navan or Tinybird 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 Navan or Tinybird record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Navan and Tinybird.

How the Navan and Tinybird connectors work

Navan

Integration surface
REST (Expense API and Booking API)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 client-credentials flow; an admin creates a client_id and client_secret under Settings > Integrations and exchanges them at Navan's OAuth token endpoint for a short-lived bearer token that is refreshed on expiry (separate US and EU regional hosts)
Change detection
Navan's Expense API supports webhooks for transaction and expense events; sync engines also poll GET endpoints with date-range and updatedAt filters (createdFrom/createdTo for bookings) to backfill history and reconcile. There is no database-level CDC.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Requests are throttled with HTTP 429 and Navan recommends retrying with exponential backoff; the Expense/Public API must first be enabled per account by Navan.

Tinybird

Integration surface
REST API (Events API for ingestion, published query endpoints) with a ClickHouse SQL dialect
Authentication
Scoped auth tokens
Change detection
Append-oriented ingestion; reads are pulled by querying published endpoints, no outbound CDC
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's ingestion and query rate limits; batch appends where possible.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Navan and Tinybird 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 · Navan ⇄ Tinybird
    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
    Navan Tinybird
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

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