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

Keep Postgres Heroku and Shipwire 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 Shipwire

Give your engineers Shipwire's products, orders, and customers in Postgres Heroku: 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, Stock, Receivings, Returns from Shipwire into Postgres Heroku and keeps both sides consistent in real time. Whatever Shipwire holds, whether products, orders, customers, or inventory, those records become rows your code can query, and changes written in Postgres Heroku, such as new prices, stock levels, or fulfillment status, sync back into Shipwire 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 Reflect billing and subscription records into the app database so product logic reads local rows
  • 02 Expose CRM objects as Postgres tables the Heroku application can query and join directly
  • 03 Read Stock levels per warehouse into an operational database or storefront so availability and backorder state reflect real inventory.
  • 04 Sync Receivings (advance ship notices) and reconcile them against Purchase Orders so inbound supplier shipments are visible as they land.

Common sync patterns

Read the store's data with a query

Records from Shipwire, whether products, orders, customers, or inventory, live in Postgres Heroku as ordinary tables or collections, joinable with the rest of your data.

Internal tools and automations without API code

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

React to store changes

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

What you can sync between Postgres Heroku and Shipwire

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 Shipwire objects How this pairing syncs
Materialized Views Precomputed result sets synced outward on refresh. Products Catalog SKUs including kits, virtual kits, and marketplace products; created and edited via API, commonly mastered in a PIM or ERP and pushed into Shipwire with dimensions and pricing. Materialized Views is specific to Postgres Heroku and Products to Shipwire — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas Namespaces that scope which tables a sync reads and writes. Stock Real-time per-warehouse inventory levels; read-only, pulled into a database or storefront so availability reflects on-hand and backordered quantities. Schemas is specific to Postgres Heroku and Stock to Shipwire — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts from connected systems. Receivings Inbound advance ship notices (ASNs) from suppliers; created and updated via API and reconciled against Purchase Orders as inventory arrives at a warehouse. Primary and Unique Keys is specific to Postgres Heroku and Receivings to Shipwire — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
JSONB Columns Semi-structured payloads for nested SaaS objects and metadata. Returns Return orders raised against existing Orders; created via API and read back into support or analytics systems for reverse-logistics tracking. JSONB Columns is specific to Postgres Heroku and Returns to Shipwire — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Sequences Generate surrogate keys for rows created by inbound syncs. Purchase Orders B2B orders with retailer-specific routing and compliance fields; managed via API alongside receivings for wholesale and marketplace fulfillment. Sequences is specific to Postgres Heroku and Purchase Orders to Shipwire — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Follower Databases Heroku-managed read replicas usable as low-impact sync sources. Trackings Shipment tracking numbers and carrier status returned as an Order subresource and surfaced through tracking.created, tracking.updated, and tracking.delivered webhook topics. Follower Databases is specific to Postgres Heroku and Trackings to Shipwire — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Postgres Heroku and Shipwire

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 Shipwire 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 Shipwire through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Shipwire Postgres Heroku Sub-second propagation

DetectionShipwire notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks (HMAC-SHA256 signed, near real-time) on order, tracking, stock, receiving, return, and product topics.

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.
  • Shipwire: No published per-second request cap; list responses page at 20 items (recommended max ~200) and webhook payloads carry at most 20 items per resource, so large records must be paged via the response next links.
What ships with Postgres Heroku ⇄ Shipwire

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Postgres Heroku or Shipwire 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 Shipwire record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Postgres Heroku ⇄ Shipwire 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 Shipwire.

How the Postgres Heroku and Shipwire 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

Shipwire

Integration surface
REST API (v3)
Authentication
Bearer token sent as `Authorization: ShipwireKey <token>`; up to two keys are generated per account on the Users and Roles page, refreshable/expirable, over HTTPS only (separate sandbox at api.beta.shipwire.com)
Change detection
Webhooks (HMAC-SHA256 signed, near real-time) on order, tracking, stock, receiving, return, and product topics; polling the list endpoints as a fallback (no CDC/log stream)
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
No published per-second request cap; list responses page at 20 items (recommended max ~200) and webhook payloads carry at most 20 items per resource, so large records must be paged via the response next links.
How it works

How to connect Postgres Heroku to Shipwire — 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 Shipwire 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
    Shipwire connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Postgres Heroku and Shipwire 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 ⇄ Shipwire
    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 Shipwire
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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SECURITY

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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

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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.

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