How to load data from Fastbill to Google PubSub

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TL;DR

This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps:

  1. set up Fastbill as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
  2. set up Google PubSub as a destination connector
  3. define which data you want to transfer and how frequently

You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud.

This tutorial’s purpose is to show you how.

What is Fastbill

FastBill is a Germany-based accounting software provider that wants to bring order to your invoices and receipts and thus improve your business. FastBill is one of the leading online platforms that provides easy invoicing and financial management for small businesses in Germany. It provides simplified, smart and beautiful accounting solution for small and medium businesses. You can easily scan the go and upload your FastBill account your documents through FastBill.

What is Google PubSub

Google Pub/Sub is an asynchronous messaging service built to be both highly reliable and scalable. Based on a component of Google’s infrastructure, Pub/Sub offers the capabililty of sending more than 500 million messages (over 1 TB of data) per second.

Integrate Fastbill with Google PubSub in minutes

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Prerequisites

  1. A Fastbill account to transfer your customer data automatically from.
  2. A Google PubSub account.
  3. An active Airbyte Cloud account, or you can also choose to use Airbyte Open Source locally. You can follow the instructions to set up Airbyte on your system using docker-compose.

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that consolidates and streamlines the process of extracting and loading data from multiple data sources to data warehouses. It offers pre-built connectors, including Fastbill and Google PubSub, for seamless data migration.

When using Airbyte to move data from Fastbill to Google PubSub, it extracts data from Fastbill using the source connector, converts it into a format Google PubSub can ingest using the provided schema, and then loads it into Google PubSub via the destination connector. This allows businesses to leverage their Fastbill data for advanced analytics and insights within Google PubSub, simplifying the ETL process and saving significant time and resources.

Step 1: Set up Fastbill as a source connector

1. First, navigate to the Fastbill source connector page on Airbyte.com.
2. Click on the "Add Source" button to begin the process of adding your Fastbill credentials.
3. In the "Connection Configuration" section, enter your Fastbill API email and API key.
4. Next, select the data you want to replicate from Fastbill by choosing the appropriate options in the "Schema Selection" section.
5. Once you have selected the data you want to replicate, click on the "Test" button to ensure that your credentials are correct and that the connection is working properly.
6. If the test is successful, click on the "Create" button to save your Fastbill source connector configuration.
7. You can now use your Fastbill source connector to replicate data from Fastbill to your destination of choice.

Step 2: Set up Google PubSub as a destination connector

1. Go to the Airbyte website and log in to your account.
2. Click on the "Destinations" tab on the left-hand side of the screen.
3. Scroll down until you find the "Google Sheets" destination connector and click on it.
4. Click on the "Create Destination" button.
5. Enter a name for your destination and click on the "Create" button.
6. You will be redirected to the Google Sheets authorization page. Sign in to your Google account if you haven't already.
7. Click on the "Allow" button to grant Airbyte access to your Google Sheets account.
8. Select the Google Sheets spreadsheet you want to use as your destination.
9. Choose the sheet you want to use as your destination table.
10. Map the fields from your source connector to the corresponding columns in your destination table.
11. Click on the "Save & Test" button to test your connection.
12. If the test is successful, click on the "Activate" button to start syncing your data to your Google Sheets destination.

Step 3: Set up a connection to sync your Fastbill data to Google PubSub

Once you've successfully connected Fastbill as a data source and Google PubSub as a destination in Airbyte, you can set up a data pipeline between them with the following steps:

  1. Create a new connection: On the Airbyte dashboard, navigate to the 'Connections' tab and click the '+ New Connection' button.
  2. Choose your source: Select Fastbill from the dropdown list of your configured sources.
  3. Select your destination: Choose Google PubSub from the dropdown list of your configured destinations.
  4. Configure your sync: Define the frequency of your data syncs based on your business needs. Airbyte allows both manual and automatic scheduling for your data refreshes.
  5. Select the data to sync: Choose the specific Fastbill objects you want to import data from towards Google PubSub. You can sync all data or select specific tables and fields.
  6. Select the sync mode for your streams: Choose between full refreshes or incremental syncs (with deduplication if you want), and this for all streams or at the stream level. Incremental is only available for streams that have a primary cursor.
  7. Test your connection: Click the 'Test Connection' button to make sure that your setup works. If the connection test is successful, save your configuration.
  8. Start the sync: If the test passes, click 'Set Up Connection'. Airbyte will start moving data from Fastbill to Google PubSub according to your settings.

Remember, Airbyte keeps your data in sync at the frequency you determine, ensuring your Google PubSub data warehouse is always up-to-date with your Fastbill data.

Use Cases to transfer your Fastbill data to Google PubSub

Integrating data from Fastbill to Google PubSub provides several benefits. Here are a few use cases:

  1. Advanced Analytics: Google PubSub’s powerful data processing capabilities enable you to perform complex queries and data analysis on your Fastbill data, extracting insights that wouldn't be possible within Fastbill alone.
  2. Data Consolidation: If you're using multiple other sources along with Fastbill, syncing to Google PubSub allows you to centralize your data for a holistic view of your operations, and to set up a change data capture process so you never have any discrepancies in your data again.
  3. Historical Data Analysis: Fastbill has limits on historical data. Syncing data to Google PubSub allows for long-term data retention and analysis of historical trends over time.
  4. Data Security and Compliance: Google PubSub provides robust data security features. Syncing Fastbill data to Google PubSub ensures your data is secured and allows for advanced data governance and compliance management.
  5. Scalability: Google PubSub can handle large volumes of data without affecting performance, providing an ideal solution for growing businesses with expanding Fastbill data.
  6. Data Science and Machine Learning: By having Fastbill data in Google PubSub, you can apply machine learning models to your data for predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and more.
  7. Reporting and Visualization: While Fastbill provides reporting tools, data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Looker (Google Data Studio) can connect to Google PubSub, providing more advanced business intelligence options. If you have a Fastbill table that needs to be converted to a Google PubSub table, Airbyte can do that automatically.

Wrapping Up

To summarize, this tutorial has shown you how to:

  1. Configure a Fastbill account as an Airbyte data source connector.
  2. Configure Google PubSub as a data destination connector.
  3. Create an Airbyte data pipeline that will automatically be moving data directly from Fastbill to Google PubSub after you set a schedule

With Airbyte, creating data pipelines take minutes, and the data integration possibilities are endless. Airbyte supports the largest catalog of API tools, databases, and files, among other sources. Airbyte's connectors are open-source, so you can add any custom objects to the connector, or even build a new connector from scratch without any local dev environment or any data engineer within 10 minutes with the no-code connector builder.

We look forward to seeing you make use of it! We invite you to join the conversation on our community Slack Channel, or sign up for our newsletter. You should also check out other Airbyte tutorials, and Airbyte’s content hub!

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How to load data from Fastbill to Google PubSub

Learn how to use Airbyte to synchronize your Fastbill data into Google PubSub within minutes.

TL;DR

This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps:

  1. set up Fastbill as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
  2. set up Google PubSub as a destination connector
  3. define which data you want to transfer and how frequently

You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud.

This tutorial’s purpose is to show you how.

What is Fastbill

FastBill is a Germany-based accounting software provider that wants to bring order to your invoices and receipts and thus improve your business. FastBill is one of the leading online platforms that provides easy invoicing and financial management for small businesses in Germany. It provides simplified, smart and beautiful accounting solution for small and medium businesses. You can easily scan the go and upload your FastBill account your documents through FastBill.

What is Google PubSub

Google Pub/Sub is an asynchronous messaging service built to be both highly reliable and scalable. Based on a component of Google’s infrastructure, Pub/Sub offers the capabililty of sending more than 500 million messages (over 1 TB of data) per second.

Integrate Fastbill with Google PubSub in minutes

Try for free now

Prerequisites

  1. A Fastbill account to transfer your customer data automatically from.
  2. A Google PubSub account.
  3. An active Airbyte Cloud account, or you can also choose to use Airbyte Open Source locally. You can follow the instructions to set up Airbyte on your system using docker-compose.

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that consolidates and streamlines the process of extracting and loading data from multiple data sources to data warehouses. It offers pre-built connectors, including Fastbill and Google PubSub, for seamless data migration.

When using Airbyte to move data from Fastbill to Google PubSub, it extracts data from Fastbill using the source connector, converts it into a format Google PubSub can ingest using the provided schema, and then loads it into Google PubSub via the destination connector. This allows businesses to leverage their Fastbill data for advanced analytics and insights within Google PubSub, simplifying the ETL process and saving significant time and resources.

Step 1: Set up Fastbill as a source connector

1. First, navigate to the Fastbill source connector page on Airbyte.com.
2. Click on the "Add Source" button to begin the process of adding your Fastbill credentials.
3. In the "Connection Configuration" section, enter your Fastbill API email and API key.
4. Next, select the data you want to replicate from Fastbill by choosing the appropriate options in the "Schema Selection" section.
5. Once you have selected the data you want to replicate, click on the "Test" button to ensure that your credentials are correct and that the connection is working properly.
6. If the test is successful, click on the "Create" button to save your Fastbill source connector configuration.
7. You can now use your Fastbill source connector to replicate data from Fastbill to your destination of choice.

Step 2: Set up Google PubSub as a destination connector

1. Go to the Airbyte website and log in to your account.
2. Click on the "Destinations" tab on the left-hand side of the screen.
3. Scroll down until you find the "Google Sheets" destination connector and click on it.
4. Click on the "Create Destination" button.
5. Enter a name for your destination and click on the "Create" button.
6. You will be redirected to the Google Sheets authorization page. Sign in to your Google account if you haven't already.
7. Click on the "Allow" button to grant Airbyte access to your Google Sheets account.
8. Select the Google Sheets spreadsheet you want to use as your destination.
9. Choose the sheet you want to use as your destination table.
10. Map the fields from your source connector to the corresponding columns in your destination table.
11. Click on the "Save & Test" button to test your connection.
12. If the test is successful, click on the "Activate" button to start syncing your data to your Google Sheets destination.

Step 3: Set up a connection to sync your Fastbill data to Google PubSub

Once you've successfully connected Fastbill as a data source and Google PubSub as a destination in Airbyte, you can set up a data pipeline between them with the following steps:

  1. Create a new connection: On the Airbyte dashboard, navigate to the 'Connections' tab and click the '+ New Connection' button.
  2. Choose your source: Select Fastbill from the dropdown list of your configured sources.
  3. Select your destination: Choose Google PubSub from the dropdown list of your configured destinations.
  4. Configure your sync: Define the frequency of your data syncs based on your business needs. Airbyte allows both manual and automatic scheduling for your data refreshes.
  5. Select the data to sync: Choose the specific Fastbill objects you want to import data from towards Google PubSub. You can sync all data or select specific tables and fields.
  6. Select the sync mode for your streams: Choose between full refreshes or incremental syncs (with deduplication if you want), and this for all streams or at the stream level. Incremental is only available for streams that have a primary cursor.
  7. Test your connection: Click the 'Test Connection' button to make sure that your setup works. If the connection test is successful, save your configuration.
  8. Start the sync: If the test passes, click 'Set Up Connection'. Airbyte will start moving data from Fastbill to Google PubSub according to your settings.

Remember, Airbyte keeps your data in sync at the frequency you determine, ensuring your Google PubSub data warehouse is always up-to-date with your Fastbill data.

Use Cases to transfer your Fastbill data to Google PubSub

Integrating data from Fastbill to Google PubSub provides several benefits. Here are a few use cases:

  1. Advanced Analytics: Google PubSub’s powerful data processing capabilities enable you to perform complex queries and data analysis on your Fastbill data, extracting insights that wouldn't be possible within Fastbill alone.
  2. Data Consolidation: If you're using multiple other sources along with Fastbill, syncing to Google PubSub allows you to centralize your data for a holistic view of your operations, and to set up a change data capture process so you never have any discrepancies in your data again.
  3. Historical Data Analysis: Fastbill has limits on historical data. Syncing data to Google PubSub allows for long-term data retention and analysis of historical trends over time.
  4. Data Security and Compliance: Google PubSub provides robust data security features. Syncing Fastbill data to Google PubSub ensures your data is secured and allows for advanced data governance and compliance management.
  5. Scalability: Google PubSub can handle large volumes of data without affecting performance, providing an ideal solution for growing businesses with expanding Fastbill data.
  6. Data Science and Machine Learning: By having Fastbill data in Google PubSub, you can apply machine learning models to your data for predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and more.
  7. Reporting and Visualization: While Fastbill provides reporting tools, data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, Looker (Google Data Studio) can connect to Google PubSub, providing more advanced business intelligence options. If you have a Fastbill table that needs to be converted to a Google PubSub table, Airbyte can do that automatically.

Wrapping Up

To summarize, this tutorial has shown you how to:

  1. Configure a Fastbill account as an Airbyte data source connector.
  2. Configure Google PubSub as a data destination connector.
  3. Create an Airbyte data pipeline that will automatically be moving data directly from Fastbill to Google PubSub after you set a schedule

With Airbyte, creating data pipelines take minutes, and the data integration possibilities are endless. Airbyte supports the largest catalog of API tools, databases, and files, among other sources. Airbyte's connectors are open-source, so you can add any custom objects to the connector, or even build a new connector from scratch without any local dev environment or any data engineer within 10 minutes with the no-code connector builder.

We look forward to seeing you make use of it! We invite you to join the conversation on our community Slack Channel, or sign up for our newsletter. You should also check out other Airbyte tutorials, and Airbyte’s content hub!

What should you do next?

Hope you enjoyed the reading. Here are the 3 ways we can help you in your data journey:

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Take the first step towards extensible data movement infrastructure that will give a ton of time back to your data team. 
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Frequently Asked Questions

What data can you extract from Fastbill?

Fastbill's API provides access to a wide range of data related to billing, invoicing, and accounting. The following are the categories of data that can be accessed through Fastbill's API:  

1. Invoices: This includes data related to invoices such as invoice number, date, due date, amount, and status.  
2. Customers: This includes data related to customers such as name, address, email, and phone number.  
3. Products and Services: This includes data related to products and services such as name, description, price, and tax rate.  
4. Payments: This includes data related to payments such as payment date, amount, and payment method.  
5. Subscriptions: This includes data related to subscriptions such as subscription plan, start date, end date, and renewal date.  
6. Time Tracking: This includes data related to time tracking such as time entries, project name, and billable hours.  
7. Reports: This includes data related to reports such as revenue, expenses, and profit and loss.  

Overall, Fastbill's API provides comprehensive access to data related to billing, invoicing, and accounting, making it a valuable tool for businesses looking to streamline their financial processes.

What data can you transfer to Google PubSub?

You can transfer a wide variety of data to Google PubSub. This usually includes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data like transaction records, log files, JSON data, CSV files, and more, allowing robust, scalable data integration and analysis.

What are top ETL tools to transfer data from Fastbill to Google PubSub?

The most prominent ETL tools to transfer data from Fastbill to Google PubSub include:

  • Airbyte
  • Fivetran
  • Stitch
  • Matillion
  • Talend Data Integration

These tools help in extracting data from Fastbill and various sources (APIs, databases, and more), transforming it efficiently, and loading it into Google PubSub and other databases, data warehouses and data lakes, enhancing data management capabilities.

What should you do next?

Hope you enjoyed the reading. Here are the 3 ways we can help you in your data journey:

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Take the first step towards extensible data movement infrastructure that will give a ton of time back to your data team. 
Get started with Airbyte for free
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