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Recurly to Stripe integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Recurly and Stripe 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 Stripe

Keep the customer, invoice, and payment records that Recurly and Stripe share consistent in real time, whether the two systems split your finance stack or one is replacing the other.

Two finance systems in one company usually means one of two setups. Either the systems divide the work, with one issuing invoices or serving a business unit while the other holds the books, or one is on its way out and both must stay accurate during the transition. In both cases, the customer, invoice, and payment records the two systems share start to drift the moment updates are keyed twice or moved by hand.

Stacksync syncs Invoices, Transactions, Line Items, Coupons and Redemptions in Recurly with PaymentIntents, Charges, Invoices, Subscriptions in Stripe bi-directionally and in real time. A record created or corrected in either system appears in the other within seconds, with field-level mapping and conflict resolution in place of CSV exports and nightly batch jobs.

That matters most at close. When both systems agree on who was billed, what was paid, and what is outstanding, reconciliation stops being a hunt for which copy of the truth is current.

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 Trigger provisioning or deprovisioning in internal systems when subscription status changes
  • 04 Write customer detail updates from internal tools back to Stripe so billing records stay current

Common sync patterns

Where Recurly issues invoices and Stripe holds the books

Invoices and payments recorded on the billing side land in the system of record automatically, so revenue is captured once and correctly.

Parallel run during a migration

When one system is replacing the other, keep both live and matching through the cutover, so no transaction falls between the last export and go-live.

One customer master

A customer's name, billing details, or payment terms corrected in either system update the other immediately, so the next invoice always uses current information.

What you can sync between Recurly and Stripe

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 Stripe objects How this pairing syncs
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. Subscriptions Recurring billing state that drives provisioning and CRM lifecycle stages. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Invoices Charge and credit billing documents; read-heavy for revenue reporting, and creatable through Purchases for one-off charges. Invoices Billing documents with line items, synced to ERPs and accounting systems. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
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. Charges Individual captured payments underlying intents, used in reconciliation. Accounts is specific to Recurly and Charges to Stripe — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Plans The product and pricing catalog (plan codes, intervals, add-ons); usually mastered in Recurly and read out, or mirrored from a product database. Products Catalog entries kept aligned with internal product databases. Plans is specific to Recurly and Products to Stripe — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Transactions Individual payment attempts — captures, refunds, and voids; typically read into a warehouse for reconciliation and dunning analysis. Prices Amounts and billing intervals attached to products. Transactions is specific to Recurly and Prices to Stripe — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Line Items One-time charges and credits on an account outside a subscription; synced for accurate revenue and adjustment reporting. Refunds Reversals synced into finance systems for accurate revenue reporting. Line Items is specific to Recurly and Refunds to Stripe — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Recurly and Stripe

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 Stripe 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 written to Stripe through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Stripe Recurly Sub-second propagation

DetectionStripe notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks backed by the Events API.

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.
  • Stripe: Subject to documented per-mode request rate limits; idempotency keys make retries safe.
What ships with Recurly ⇄ Stripe

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Recurly or Stripe 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 Stripe record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Recurly ⇄ Stripe 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 Stripe.

How the Recurly and Stripe 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.

Stripe

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API keys (secret and restricted keys); OAuth 2.0 for Stripe Connect platforms
Change detection
Webhooks backed by the Events API; /v1/events supports replay and backfill
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to documented per-mode request rate limits; idempotency keys make retries safe
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Recurly and Stripe 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 ⇄ Stripe
    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 Stripe
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

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.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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