Sync Heroku Postgres to Shopify Custom Apps
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Integration in Four Steps
Step 1: Connect Heroku Postgres
Connect Postgres with standard ODBC credentials.
Step 2: Connect Shopify as a destination
You can use an OAuth log-in flow to connect Census to Shopify directly via the Census Connections page.
Step 3: Define the core data that matters for your business
Write a SQL Statement to select the records you want to sync from Heroku Postgres. Census will match records based on the unique identifier you provide (like email or ID).
Step 4: Schedule your sync
Choose your sync frequency with options to transfer data continuously, on a schedule, or triggered via our API.
Get a demoWhere can you sync your Heroku Postgres in Shopify?
Customer
The Customer resource stores information about a shop's customers, such as their contact details, their order history, and whether they've agreed to receive email marketing.
API Docs DescriptionInventory levels
An inventory level represents the quantities of an inventory item for a location.
API DocsProduct
The Product resource lets you update and create products in a merchant's store. You can use product variants with the Product resource to create or update different versions of the same product. You can also add or update product images.
API DocsProduct Variant
A variant can be added to a Product resource to represent one version of a product with several options. The Product resource will have a variant for every possible combination of its options. Each product can have a maximum of three options and a maximum of 100 variants.
API DocsA single source of truth in all your tools
Census is the easiest way to share a consistent view of your data across your entire business. Define your models, metrics, and business logic in your data warehouse and sync them to all your operational tools.
- Create trust in consistent metrics
- Automate confidently with clean data
- Simplify your data integration strategy
- Improve data security and visibility
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Advantages of Census
Build once. Reuse everywhere.
Once you define your models in dbt or in Census, you can sync them to all of the tools, so every team is using the same data to achieve their goals.
No more CSV files & Python scripts
Focus on building a data stack and improving data quality, not writing custom code to integrate with Sales & Marketing tools. Census takes care of getting the data into the hands of your business team. No Engineering favors required.
It just works. At scale.
Whether you sync 100 records or 100 million, we will keep your data in sync across your warehouse and your business tools. Census automatically navigates API failures and monitoring keeps you aware of worst case scenarios.

Data Activation Use Cases
Syncing from Heroku Postgres
Heroku Postgres is a managed SQL database service provided directly by Heroku. You can access a Heroku Postgres database from any language with a PostgreSQL driver, including all languages officially supported by Heroku.
Now you can use the data in Heroku Postgres for more than just analytics and BI. With Amazon Heroku Postgres you can operationalize your data across your entire customer data stack.
Learn how to use Census with 👉 our Heroku Postgres docs
Syncing to Shopify
Shopify is an e-commerce company that provides tools to grow and manage retail businesses of any size.
Learn how to use Census with 👉 our Shopify docs
Census connects to Heroku Postgres and syncs data to Shopify. With 200+ integrations (and counting!) and transparent pricing, it's never been easier to start operationalizing your data. This is what we like to call Reverse ETL.
Census is the Data Activation platform of choice for companies who value scalability, observability, and performance.
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