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Shipwire to TimescaleDB integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Shipwire and TimescaleDB 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 Shipwire and TimescaleDB

Give your engineers Shipwire's products, orders, and customers in TimescaleDB: 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 Rates, Orders, Products, Stock from Shipwire into TimescaleDB 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 TimescaleDB, 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 Replicate subscription and billing events from operational Postgres tables into Timescale hypertables for time-series analysis.
  • 02 Keep device or asset reference tables bi-directionally in sync between TimescaleDB and an ERP.
  • 03 Push Products, kits, and their dimensions and pricing from a PIM or ERP into the Shipwire catalog and keep SKUs aligned.
  • 04 Read Stock levels per warehouse into an operational database or storefront so availability and backorder state reflect real inventory.

Common sync patterns

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 TimescaleDB, so jobs and triggers can respond the moment an order, price, or stock level changes.

Keep catalog and inventory current

Prices, stock levels, or product details maintained in TimescaleDB sync back onto Shipwire, so the storefront shows what your systems treat as true.

What you can sync between Shipwire and TimescaleDB

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.

Shipwire objects TimescaleDB objects How this pairing syncs
Rates Shipping cost quotes for a cart or order; read-only, called at checkout time to estimate carrier costs rather than synced as stored records. Chunks Time-bounded partitions of a hypertable; syncs read and write through the parent hypertable and never address chunks directly. Rates is specific to Shipwire and Chunks to TimescaleDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Orders B2C fulfillment orders (create, update, cancel, get) with item, hold, routing, and tracking subresources; typically written from a storefront or ERP and synced back with status and trackings. Continuous Aggregates Incrementally maintained rollups that serve as pre-aggregated read sources for downstream systems. Orders is specific to Shipwire and Continuous Aggregates to TimescaleDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Regular PostgreSQL Tables Relational reference data such as devices, tenants, or accounts synced alongside the series data. Products is specific to Shipwire and Regular PostgreSQL Tables to TimescaleDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Stock Real-time per-warehouse inventory levels; read-only, pulled into a database or storefront so availability reflects on-hand and backordered quantities. Views Standard SQL views used to shape or filter data for consumers. Stock is specific to Shipwire and Views to TimescaleDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Receivings Inbound advance ship notices (ASNs) from suppliers; created and updated via API and reconciled against Purchase Orders as inventory arrives at a warehouse. Schemas Postgres namespaces used to separate synced datasets by team or environment. Receivings is specific to Shipwire and Schemas to TimescaleDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Returns Return orders raised against existing Orders; created via API and read back into support or analytics systems for reverse-logistics tracking. Hypertables Time-partitioned tables that hold the main time-series data; the primary read and write target in syncs. Returns is specific to Shipwire and Hypertables to TimescaleDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Shipwire and TimescaleDB

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.

Shipwire TimescaleDB 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 TimescaleDB as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

TimescaleDB Shipwire Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in TimescaleDB are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Log-based capture via PostgreSQL logical decoding where the deployment allows it — hypertable changes surface on the underlying chunk tables and must.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • 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.
  • TimescaleDB: No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by database resources and connection limits.
What ships with Shipwire ⇄ TimescaleDB

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Shipwire or TimescaleDB 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 Shipwire or TimescaleDB record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Shipwire ⇄ TimescaleDB sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

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EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Shipwire and TimescaleDB.

How the Shipwire and TimescaleDB connectors work

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.

TimescaleDB

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (PostgreSQL)
Authentication
Database credentials
Change detection
Log-based capture via PostgreSQL logical decoding where the deployment allows it — hypertable changes surface on the underlying chunk tables and must be remapped to the parent — or timestamp-based polling on time columns; regular Postgres tables replicate through standard logical replication
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by database resources and connection limits.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Shipwire and TimescaleDB 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 · Shipwire ⇄ TimescaleDB
    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
    Shipwire TimescaleDB
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

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