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

Keep Recurly and Render Postgres 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 Recurly and Render Postgres

Work with Recurly's financial data straight from Render Postgres: 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 Measured Units and Usage, Accounts, Subscriptions, Plans from Recurly into Indexes and Constraints, Tables, Views, Materialized Views in Render Postgres and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against Render Postgres, 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 Replicate between a Render database and another Postgres or warehouse for migration or environment separation.
  • 04 Two-way sync CRM or ERP objects into Render Postgres tables so product and ops teams query business data with plain SQL.

Common sync patterns

Internal tools without API plumbing

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

Write back safely

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

React to financial events

Changes in Recurly appear in Render Postgres as row changes, so you can trigger downstream logic with the database tooling you already use.

What you can sync between Recurly and Render Postgres

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.

Recurly objects Render Postgres objects How this pairing syncs
Line Items One-time charges and credits on an account outside a subscription; synced for accurate revenue and adjustment reporting. Views Saved queries exposed as read-only relations; read out to BI tools or downstream syncs without duplicating transformation logic. Line Items is specific to Recurly and Views to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Coupons and Redemptions Discount definitions and their application to accounts and subscriptions; read for discount and promotion analysis. Materialized Views Precomputed query results refreshed on demand; read for fast reporting tables that downstream systems can consume. Coupons and Redemptions is specific to Recurly and Materialized Views to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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 Namespaces that organize tables per app or environment; sync targets are scoped per schema to keep synced data isolated and tidy. Billing Info is specific to Recurly and Schemas to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Measured Units and Usage Metered-billing units; usage records are posted to a subscription before each bill run for consumption-based pricing. Columns and Types Full Postgres type system including JSONB and arrays; field mappings preserve native types instead of flattening to strings. Measured Units and Usage is specific to Recurly and Columns and Types to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Indexes and Constraints Primary keys, unique constraints, and foreign keys; unique keys drive idempotent upserts and conflict resolution during sync. Accounts is specific to Recurly and Indexes and Constraints to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Subscriptions Recurring subscription records tied to an Account and a Plan, with state, term, and next-bill date. Core object, synced two-way to drive provisioning and reporting. Tables Relational tables with full column typing; synced two-way with CRMs, ERPs, and SaaS apps so application data is queryable as plain Postgres rows. Subscriptions is specific to Recurly and Tables to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Recurly and Render Postgres

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.

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

Render Postgres Recurly Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Render Postgres are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Logical replication via WAL and replication slots for change data capture when enabled on the instance, with timestamp or cursor-based polling as the.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • 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.
  • Render Postgres: No API rate limits — throughput is bounded by the instance's plan (CPU, RAM, connection limit); connection pooling is recommended since managed plans cap concurrent connections.
What ships with Recurly ⇄ Render Postgres

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

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

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Recurly and Render Postgres connectors work

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.

Render Postgres

Integration surface
PostgreSQL wire protocol (managed Postgres on Render)
Authentication
Standard Postgres connection string — host, port, database, user, password with TLS; Render provides internal and external connection URLs and IP allowlisting
Change detection
Logical replication via WAL and replication slots for change data capture when enabled on the instance, with timestamp or cursor-based polling as the fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits — throughput is bounded by the instance's plan (CPU, RAM, connection limit); connection pooling is recommended since managed plans cap concurrent connections.
How it works

How to connect Recurly to Render Postgres — 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 Recurly and Render Postgres 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
    Recurly connected
    Render Postgres connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

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