- Introduction
- Installing and updating
- Navigating Postman
- Sending your first request
- Managing your account
- Syncing your work
- Discovering templates
- Creating your first collection
- Creating a workspace
- Setting up your Postman app
- Importing and exporting data
- Troubleshooting app issues
- Building requests
- Authorizing requests
- Receiving responses
- Grouping requests in collections
- Using variables
- Managing environments
- Visualizing responses
- Specifying examples
- Using cookies
- Working with certificates
- Generating client code
- Troubleshooting requests
- Using the Collection Runner
- Scheduling runs with monitors
- Building request workflows
- Importing data files
- Working with your team
- Defining roles
- Requesting access
- Sharing your work
- Your Private API Network
- Commenting on collections
- Versioning APIs
- Using version control
- Using the API Builder
- Managing and sharing APIs
- Validating APIs
- Monitoring your APIs
- Setting up a monitor
- Viewing monitor results
- Monitoring APIs and websites
- Set up integrations to receive alerts
- Running Postman monitors using static IPs
- Troubleshooting monitors
- Monitoring FAQs
- Analyzing with reports
- Documenting your API
- Authoring your docs
- Publishing your docs
- Viewing documentation
- Using custom domains
- Publishing templates
- Publishing to the API Network
- Submission guidelines
- Managing your team
- Purchasing Postman
- Billing
- Configuring team settings
- Utilizing audit logs
- Onboarding checklist
- Migrating data between teams
- Intro to SSO
- Configuring SSO for a team
- Logging in to an SSO team
- Microsoft AD FS
- Custom SAML in Azure AD
- Custom SAML in Duo
- Custom SAML in GSuite
- Custom SAML in Okta
- Custom SAML in Onelogin
- Custom SAML in Ping Identity
- Migrating to the current version of Postman
Syncing your work
What is Syncing?
Syncing makes all your Postman data available when you're signed in to your Postman account.
Changes, such as edits, additions, or deletions, sync across all devices that are linked to your account.
These entities can sync with the server and be saved to the cloud:
- Collections
- Folders
- Requests
- Responses
- Header Presets
- Environments
- Environment variables
- Global variables
- Collection run results
- Workspaces
- History
How do I Sync between computers?
Install the Postman app and sign in with the same email address or username on all your devices.
Alternatively, access Postman on the web by visiting go.postman.co/build in your browser and signing into your account.
If you forget your username or password, you can recover them using the links in the sign-in prompt.
When you're logged into Postman, your data is synced across devices.
Note: Postman restricts parallel usage to three apps per account.
States
If your app is in sync with the server, the icon to the left of your name in the top navigation appears orange, and displays IN SYNC.
If a sync operation is underway, it displays SYNCING.
If you are not signed in to the app, you see OFFLINE.
When you open the app or if your connection drops, it displays CONNECTING before it starts to sync.
You may occasionally experience sync conflicts between your app and the Postman servers, particularly when you work as part of a team: Postman will prompt you to resolve any conflicts that occur
Sign Out
If you choose to sign out, Postman deletes your data from the local instance of the app.
Don’t worry, Postman restores all your data from the cloud when you sign in, and enables other users to use the app without your data clashing.
When you reload the app, Postman automatically retrieves the most recent and up-to-date version of your collections.
Disabling sync
If you or your organization have a requirement to prevent your data from being synced to the Postman cloud, you can use Postman without an account and manually back up your data locally.
You can delete already synced data by deleting your account. Note that if you are a part of a Postman team, you must first leave the team in order to delete your account.
Learn more about Security at Postman.
Deleting your Postman account
If you have a Postman account and are not part of a Postman team, you can delete your account.
Otherwise, you can contact us at help@postman.com.