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Usage-based billing
metered to the ledger

Stream metered usage events from your app into Stripe and the general ledger in real time, with idempotent guarantees keyed on event ID, so customers are charged once and finance never reverses a double-bill.

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Adopted by fast-scaling companies moving mission-critical data in real time

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Where metered billing breaks

Three reasons usage and revenue stop matching.

Usage-based billing means counting events at scale and turning them into money. A single mis-count or duplicate erodes the customer's trust and the close.

01 - Double counts

One retried event, two charges

When a meter event is sent twice or a sync retries, naive pipelines push two usage records to Stripe. The customer disputes the overcharge and finance issues credits all month.

IDEMPOTENCY
02 - Lossy meters

Dropped events become unbilled revenue

If the app emits a usage event while the billing system is down and there's no replay, that consumption never bills. Revenue leaks quietly and nobody reconciles it back.

RELIABILITY
03 - GL mismatch

Stripe and the books tell different stories

Usage posts to Stripe but the journal entry to NetSuite lags or maps to the wrong account. Finance closes the month with Stripe and the GL disagreeing on metered revenue.

SCHEMA
PLATFORM

Six products. One Platform.
Replace many legacy vendors.

Every tool Stacksync replaces is one fewer vendor, one fewer bill, one fewer integration to maintain.

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Two-way sync

Changes made in one platform automatically update across all connected systems in real time, eliminating data silos and reducing errors.

Replaces:
Heroku Connect and Salesforce Data 360
Heroku Connect Salesforce Data 360

Workflow automation

Stop building brittle API scripts. With Stacksync, you can trigger complex automated workflows using simple SQL commands.

Replaces:
Workato and Boomi

AI Agents

Expose every enterprise system to your agents through a single MCP layer. Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini get production-grade tools without custom glue code.

Natively available in:
Claude and ChatGPT and Gemini
Claude ChatGPT Gemini

Event queues

Handle massive traffic spikes without losing a single event. Queues buffer your data during surges, ensuring strict ordering and reliable delivery.

Replaces:
Kafka and Amazon SQS and Confluent
Kafka Amazon SQS

Database hosting

Interact with your CRM, ERP, and payment tools as if they were just another table in your database. Say goodbye to rate limits and complex API documentation.

Replaces:
AWS RDS and Self-hosted databases
AWS RDS Self-hosted databases

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions. Stacksync automatically parses incoming EDI documents directly into your database tables.

Replaces:
SPS Commerce and TrueCommerce
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Connectors

Every system a metered event touches, on one sync.

Stacksync ships pre-built two-way connectors for the databases, billing engines, ledgers, and warehouses usage-based billing runs through, with idempotency keys and replay.

Event sources
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  • Postgres
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Segment
  • Datadog
Billing engines
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  • Stripe
  • Chargebee
  • Recurly
  • Recharge
  • Braintree
ERP & ledger
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  • NetSuite
  • QuickBooks
  • Sage Intacct
  • SAP
  • Microsoft Dynamics
Warehouse & comms
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  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • Databricks
  • Slack
  • SendGrid
Custom meter schemas, Stripe usage records, and your own GL account mappings are first-class, no scripting required.
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SECURITY

Security teams love Stacksync

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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SOC 2 type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA BAA
GDPR
CCPA
CSA STAR
DPF US-EU-UK-CH
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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

How do you stop a usage event from billing twice?

Every sync is idempotent, keyed on the source event ID. A retried or replayed meter event updates the existing usage record in Stripe instead of adding a second charge.

What happens if Stripe is down when an event fires?

Stacksync queues and retries with backoff, and every event is replayable. Usage that fires during an outage bills the moment Stripe is back, in order, with nothing dropped.

Does usage post to the general ledger too?

Yes. The same metered events flow to NetSuite or QuickBooks against the right revenue account, so Stripe and the GL agree at close instead of needing a manual tie-out.

Can we map our own meter and rate fields?

Yes. Custom usage tables, rate plans, and Stripe metadata map in the visual mapper alongside standard fields and sync the same way.

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Bill metered usage exactly once.

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