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

Keep Postgres Heroku and Smartrecruiters 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 Smartrecruiters

Put your workforce data where your apps can reach it: Postgres Heroku and Smartrecruiters share the same people, positions, and org structure in real time.

Smartrecruiters is the system of record for the people side of the business — employees, candidates, roles, and the org structure around them. Postgres Heroku is where internal tools, dashboards, provisioning jobs, and analytics actually read and store records. The overlap is the workforce itself: Jobs, Job Postings, Interviews, Offers in Smartrecruiters need to exist as queryable Schemas, Primary and Unique Keys, JSONB Columns, Sequences in Postgres Heroku before an app can act on them. When that bridge is a nightly export or a hand-run CSV, every downstream system spends the day working from a roster that has already moved on.

Stacksync syncs Schemas, Primary and Unique Keys, JSONB Columns, Sequences in Postgres Heroku with Jobs, Job Postings, Interviews, Offers in Smartrecruiters field by field, in real time. You decide which system owns which fields — Smartrecruiters typically owns identity and org attributes, while operational or computed values can flow back the other way — and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, matching records on a stable key and resolving conflicts by rules you set.

The result is one live picture of the workforce on both sides: HR keeps its source of truth, and the database keeps a current mirror that internal apps, reports, and access controls can trust without a batch window in between.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync Heroku Postgres into a warehouse for reporting without running ETL dynos
  • 02 Keep several Heroku app databases aligned with one system of record
  • 03 Write enriched or sourced Candidates from external sourcing tools into SmartRecruiters and keep contact fields refreshed as data changes.
  • 04 Stream Jobs and Job Postings into a reporting database for requisition, funnel, and time-to-fill dashboards.

Common sync patterns

Computed and operational fields flow back

Values assembled or corrected in Postgres Heroku write onto the matching record in Smartrecruiters where those fields are writable, keeping the people system enriched.

Mirror people records into the database

Records maintained in Smartrecruiters land as queryable Schemas, Primary and Unique Keys, JSONB Columns, Sequences in Postgres Heroku, so internal apps and dashboards read live data instead of a periodic export.

One directory of record

When a person record is added, changed, or deactivated in either system, the matching row in the other stays current, ending dual maintenance.

What you can sync between Postgres Heroku and Smartrecruiters

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 Smartrecruiters objects How this pairing syncs
Tables Standard Postgres tables; the primary two-way sync target for app data. Interviews Interview types, timeslots, templates, and scheduled interviews with interviewers and times; created, updated, and read for scheduling and interviewer-load analytics. Tables is specific to Postgres Heroku and Interviews to Smartrecruiters — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Read-side projections exposed to outbound syncs. Offers Offer records tied to an Application with status, custom offer fields, and offer documents; readable and writable, commonly synced to an HRIS on hire (documents endpoint limited to 2 requests/sec). Views is specific to Postgres Heroku and Offers to Smartrecruiters — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Materialized Views Precomputed result sets synced outward on refresh. Users Company users (recruiters, hiring managers) with roles, access groups, and activation state; read and written via the User Management API. Materialized Views is specific to Postgres Heroku and Users to Smartrecruiters — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas Namespaces that scope which tables a sync reads and writes. Approvals Approval requests for jobs and offers; requests can be created, retrieved as pending, commented on, and approved or rejected via the Approvals API. Schemas is specific to Postgres Heroku and Approvals to Smartrecruiters — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts from connected systems. Candidates Person records with contact details, tags, attachments, custom properties, and consent; created, updated, and searched via the Candidates API, often populated from sourcing or enrichment pipelines. Primary and Unique Keys is specific to Postgres Heroku and Candidates to Smartrecruiters — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
JSONB Columns Semi-structured payloads for nested SaaS objects and metadata. Applications Links a Candidate to a Job and carries the current hiring status and source; created and advanced through statuses (screening, interview, offer, hired, rejected) via the Application API. JSONB Columns is specific to Postgres Heroku and Applications to Smartrecruiters — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Postgres Heroku and Smartrecruiters

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

Smartrecruiters Postgres Heroku Sub-second propagation

DetectionSmartrecruiters notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks API — subscribe to events (new application, candidate updated, status changed) delivered with a signing secret and retrievable callback logs.

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.
  • Smartrecruiters: Per API credential: most endpoints allow up to 10 requests/sec (job publication and offer documents 2/sec), plus a concurrency limiter of up to 8 simultaneous requests (GET /candidates capped at 1). Exceeding returns 429; responses carry X-RateLimit-Limit/Remaining and concurrent-limit headers.
What ships with Postgres Heroku ⇄ Smartrecruiters

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Postgres Heroku or Smartrecruiters 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 Smartrecruiters record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Postgres Heroku ⇄ Smartrecruiters 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 Smartrecruiters.

How the Postgres Heroku and Smartrecruiters 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

Smartrecruiters

Integration surface
SmartRecruiters REST APIs (SmartAPIs) on api.smartrecruiters.com — Candidates, Application, Jobs, Interviews, Offers, Users, Approvals, plus a Webhooks API for event subscriptions
Authentication
X-SmartToken API key header for a customer's own integration (grants full company access, no scopes or expiry), or OAuth 2.0 authorization-code flow for partner and Marketplace apps with user-scoped permissions
Change detection
Webhooks API — subscribe to events (new application, candidate updated, status changed) delivered with a signing secret and retrievable callback logs; otherwise poll list endpoints with updated-after-style filters. No log-based change data capture.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Per API credential: most endpoints allow up to 10 requests/sec (job publication and offer documents 2/sec), plus a concurrency limiter of up to 8 simultaneous requests (GET /candidates capped at 1). Exceeding returns 429; responses carry X-RateLimit-Limit/Remaining and concurrent-limit headers.
Smartrecruiters setup guide
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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

Postgres Heroku and Smartrecruiters integration FAQ

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