Stripe to Postgres integration for a queryable payments replica
The Stripe to Postgres integration from Adapters syncs charges, customers, subscriptions, invoices, and payouts from the Stripe API into your own Postgres tables on an incremental schedule, so product features and internal dashboards query billing data locally instead of hammering the Stripe API. Field mapping is no-code, so try it against sample records in the live demo.
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Last updated September 2026
What running Stripe to Postgres by hand costs you
- Calling the Stripe API live from your app for billing lookups is slow and burns rate limit, so you want a local Postgres replica your queries and joins can hit instead.
- Stripe objects change after creation (a charge is refunded, a subscription changes plan), and a one-time import into Postgres goes stale within a day.
- Joining Stripe revenue to your product tables needs both in the same database, not a payments dashboard in one place and users in another.
The field mapping, out of the box
These cables are pre-wired when you pick the pair. Rewire any of them, or add your own, in the same visual data mapping tool you use for every adapter.
Input / STRIPE
Output / POSTGRES
Transforms included
Incremental loads use the Stripe object created and updated timestamps so refunds and plan changes flow through on the next run; minor-unit amounts cast to Postgres NUMERIC (cents divided to dollars), Unix epochs become TIMESTAMPTZ in UTC, and writes upsert with ON CONFLICT on the Stripe id so a retry never double-inserts and your replica stays a clean mirror to join against product tables.
Stripe to Postgres in depth
A payments dataset in a relational database is only useful if the money types are right and the incremental watermark cannot drift. Both are one-line decisions that are painful to reverse later. Read from Stripe and PostgreSQL documentation on 23 August 2026.
Use NUMERIC(19,4) and never the Postgres MONEY type
Stripe sends amounts as integers in the smallest currency unit, so the conversion happens on the way in and the destination column has to hold the result exactly. Use NUMERIC(19,4). Do not use the PostgreSQL MONEY type: its behavior depends on the database lc_monetary setting, so the same stored value reads differently on a server configured for a different locale. That is a very unpleasant thing to discover during an audit.
Store the currency code beside every amount
Stripe sets currency per object rather than per account, and zero-decimal currencies such as JPY and KRW carry no minor unit at all. A hardcoded divide by 100 books Japanese revenue at one percent of its value with no error raised anywhere. Keep the currency code in the same row as the amount, branch the conversion on it in exactly one place, and the whole class of bug disappears.
TIMESTAMPTZ, not TIMESTAMP, for every Stripe timestamp
Stripe timestamps carry an offset. Land them in TIMESTAMPTZ. If you use plain TIMESTAMP, an incremental sync keyed on a time watermark drifts by an hour twice a year when daylight saving changes, and the records that fall in the gap are simply never picked up. Nothing errors, the row count is just quietly short.
created and available_on are different dates and both matter
A charge has a creation time and its balance transaction has an availability date, and they routinely fall in different accounting periods. Keep both columns. Reporting that books on the wrong one moves revenue between months, which is the sort of variance that gets found in a close review rather than by a test.
Reconcile on balance transactions, index for the payout join
Charges exclude fees, refunds, disputes and adjustments, so they never tie out to a bank deposit. Balance transactions carry gross, fee and net together with the transfer they settled into. Index on that transfer reference and on created, because the query you will run most often is the sum of net inside one payout.
Protect the read allocation, it is a ratio not a rate
Stripe allows an average of 500 GET requests per transaction over a rolling 30 days, with a floor of 10,000 reads a month. That makes low-volume accounts the constrained ones, which is the reverse of how most teams reason about API budgets. A poller that walks every customer hourly to look for changes can exhaust a small account. Use webhooks to learn what changed and the API only to fetch it. Full limit set: Stripe API rate limits.
Rate limits and concurrency limits are separate budgets
Stripe allows 100 requests per second per account in live mode and 25 in a sandbox, with most individual endpoints capped at 25. Separately it limits how many requests are in flight at once, and the header Stripe-Rate-Limited-Reason tells you which of the two you breached. Backoff fixes a rate problem and does almost nothing for a concurrency problem, so read the header before you tune anything.
Postgres is a fine destination and a poor analytics engine
Landing Stripe next to your application data is genuinely useful for joins that Stripe cannot do. It is a worse place to run heavy analytical scans beside production traffic. If reporting is the point, either use a read replica or accept that you have built a small warehouse and treat it as one, partitioning by period. The alternative destinations are compared on Stripe integration tools.
How it goes live
Three steps, minutes end to end, covered by flat data integration pricing from $49 a month.
STEP 01
Pick the pair
Connect Stripe and Postgres with scoped credentials. About a minute each.
STEP 02
Confirm the mapping
The cables above are pre-wired. Adjust any field, preview the transform on sample records, done.
STEP 03
Schedule the sync
Hourly down to every minute, with retries, alerting, and a full log on every run.
Stripe to Postgres sync: common questions
How do I sync Stripe to Postgres?
Connect the Stripe account read-only, choose the objects you need (charges, payment intents, invoices, subscriptions, customers, payouts), map them onto your Postgres tables, and set an interval. Each run upserts on the Stripe object id using ON CONFLICT, so a replay is harmless and the table always holds current state rather than an event log.
What Postgres type should Stripe amounts use?
NUMERIC(19,4), after dividing by the currency exponent. Stripe returns amounts as integers in the smallest currency unit, so $42.50 arrives as 4250. Store the converted decimal in NUMERIC and never in the PostgreSQL MONEY type, which is locale dependent through lc_monetary and will produce different results on a differently configured server.
Should I use Stripe webhooks or a scheduled sync into Postgres?
Webhooks give you low latency and an endpoint you have to keep available, verify signatures on, and replay when it was down. A scheduled sync gives you minutes of latency and no endpoint at all. Most reporting and finance use cases are better served by the schedule; webhooks earn their operational cost when something has to react immediately.
How do I keep Stripe refunds and disputes correct in Postgres?
Load them as their own tables joined on the charge or payment intent id, rather than trying to net them into a single amount column. Refunds and disputes arrive days or weeks after the original charge, so netting at load time means re-writing history. Keep the source objects separate and net them in the query, where the logic is visible.
How does the Stripe to Postgres sync work?
The Stripe to Postgres integration from Adapters syncs charges, customers, subscriptions, invoices, and payouts from the Stripe API into your own Postgres tables on an incremental schedule, so product features and internal dashboards query billing data locally instead of hammering the Stripe API. Field mapping is no-code, so try it against sample records in the live demo.
Is there a prebuilt Stripe connector for Postgres?
Yes. This Stripe to Postgres connector ships prebuilt: the field mapping is wired the moment you pick the pair, transforms are included, and you can try it against sample records in the live demo. No code or engineering sprint required.
How much does the Stripe Postgres integration cost?
Pricing is flat and monthly: Starter at $49, Growth at $149, Scale at $399. Every plan includes this pair, visual field mapping, and per-record logs. There are no per-task or per-row fees, so the bill stays the same as volume grows.
How often can Adapters sync Stripe to Postgres?
Hourly on Starter, every 5 minutes on Growth, and down to every minute on Scale. Failed records retry automatically with backoff, and alerting plus a full per-record log come standard on every run.
Do I need to write code to connect Stripe and Postgres?
No. Fields are auto-mapped the moment you pick the pair, and you can rewire any mapping visually before the first sync. Incremental loads use the Stripe object created and updated timestamps so refunds and plan changes flow through on the next run; minor-unit amounts cast to Postgres NUMERIC (cents divided to dollars), Unix epochs become TIMESTAMPTZ in UTC, and writes upsert with ON CONFLICT on the Stripe id so a retry never double-inserts and your replica stays a clean mirror to join against product tables.
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