# Real-time sync to Postgres

Access real-time Stripe data with a direct mapping to the Stripe API.

Data Pipeline continuously streams your Stripe data to a Postgres database. When any data changes in your Stripe account (for example, a new payment, a subscription update, or a customer change), the updated information appears in your Postgres database in real time.

Because the data schema is a direct mapping to the public Stripe API, you can reference the [API documentation](https://docs.stripe.com/api.md) to understand the structure and fields available in your synced data.

Unlike webhooks, which deliver event notifications for individual changes and require you to build and maintain your own data store, Data Pipeline maintains a continuously synchronized copy of all your Stripe data in your Postgres database. This means you can query your complete Stripe dataset without writing event handlers or managing state.

### Request to join the preview for real-time sync to Postgres.

Enter your email to request access.

```bash
curl https://docs.stripe.com/preview/register \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Referer: https://docs.stripe.com/data/data-pipeline/real-time-sync-to-postgres" \
  -d '{"email": "EMAIL", "preview": "data_pipeline_next_gen_preview"}'
```

## Data availability 

Data pipelines can include everything in the public Stripe API that supports a list endpoint. This means:

- All listable resources are available: charges, customers, subscriptions, payment intents, invoices, and so on.
- Resources that return a single object rather than a list aren’t available. For example, [Balance](https://docs.stripe.com/api/balance.md) is a single object and can’t be synced.
- Data Pipeline only includes data available through the public API.

You control which tables to sync. You can enable or disable syncing for individual tables at any time through the [Dashboard](https://dashboard.stripe.com/data-management/pipelines).

## Next steps 

[Configure Postgres for real-time sync](https://docs.stripe.com/data/data-pipeline/real-time-sync-to-postgres/configure.md) to prepare your database and connect it to Stripe.