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Postgres Heroku to Recurly integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Postgres Heroku 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 Postgres Heroku and Recurly

Work with Recurly's financial data straight from Postgres Heroku: 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 Line Items, Coupons and Redemptions, Billing Info, Measured Units and Usage from Recurly into Views, Materialized Views, Schemas, Primary and Unique Keys in Postgres Heroku and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against Postgres Heroku, 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 several Heroku app databases aligned with one system of record
  • 04 Reflect billing and subscription records into the app database so product logic reads local rows

Common sync patterns

Query finance data like any other data

Customers, invoices, and payments from Recurly live in Postgres Heroku as regular tables or collections your team can join, index, and query.

Internal tools without API plumbing

Build dashboards and back-office tools directly on Postgres Heroku; Stacksync handles the API calls, rate limits, and retries against Recurly.

Write back safely

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

What you can sync between Postgres Heroku 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.

Postgres Heroku objects Recurly objects How this pairing syncs
Tables Standard Postgres tables; the primary two-way sync target for app data. Transactions Individual payment attempts — captures, refunds, and voids; typically read into a warehouse for reconciliation and dunning analysis. Tables is specific to Postgres Heroku and Transactions to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Read-side projections exposed to outbound syncs. Line Items One-time charges and credits on an account outside a subscription; synced for accurate revenue and adjustment reporting. Views is specific to Postgres Heroku and Line Items to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Materialized Views Precomputed result sets synced outward on refresh. Coupons and Redemptions Discount definitions and their application to accounts and subscriptions; read for discount and promotion analysis. Materialized Views is specific to Postgres Heroku and Coupons and Redemptions to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas Namespaces that scope which tables a sync reads and writes. Billing Info Tokenized payment method (card/ACH) on an account; written when onboarding customers and read for payment-health signals (never stores raw card numbers). Schemas is specific to Postgres Heroku and Billing Info to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts from connected systems. Measured Units and Usage Metered-billing units; usage records are posted to a subscription before each bill run for consumption-based pricing. Primary and Unique Keys is specific to Postgres Heroku and Measured Units and Usage to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
JSONB Columns Semi-structured payloads for nested SaaS objects and metadata. Accounts Customer/billing entity records keyed by account_code; the anchor most subscriptions and invoices hang off. Synced two-way with CRM accounts or a customer database. JSONB Columns is specific to Postgres Heroku and Accounts to Recurly — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Postgres Heroku 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.

Postgres Heroku Recurly Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Postgres Heroku for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Trigger-based capture or polling in most configurations.

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

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Postgres Heroku: No API rate limits; connection counts and performance are bounded by the Heroku Postgres plan.
  • 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 Postgres Heroku ⇄ Recurly

Connect Postgres Heroku and Recurly for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Postgres Heroku 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 Postgres Heroku or Recurly record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Postgres Heroku and Recurly.

How the Postgres Heroku and Recurly connectors work

Postgres Heroku

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (standard PostgreSQL)
Authentication
Database credentials from the Heroku DATABASE_URL config var; SSL required
Change detection
Trigger-based capture or polling in most configurations; log-based logical replication availability depends on plan and Heroku's managed server settings
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No API rate limits; connection counts and performance are bounded by the Heroku Postgres plan

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 Postgres Heroku 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 Postgres Heroku 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
    Postgres Heroku connected
    Recurly connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

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

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