@kapa.ai Does airbyte have writeback functionalitu, from destination to source?

Airbyte’s core product is designed for source → destination (ETL/ELT), not for generic “writeback” from destination to source. Historically, forum answers state that Airbyte does not support Reverse ETL / warehouse‑to‑app syncs and people use separate tools (like Census) for that use case.[[PostgreSQL→Airtable](https://discuss.airbyte.io/t/5102); [ERP→Shopify](https://discuss.airbyte.io/t/6462)] However, Airbyte has introduced Data Activation (reverse ETL), which lets you sync data from a warehouse into operational tools such as CRMs, marketing platforms, and support systems.[[Data activation](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/move-data/elt-data-activation)] This is still a warehouse-to-app pattern, not an automatic “write back to the original source system” in a generic way. So: - Generic writeback from any destination to any source: not supported. - Warehouse → business apps (reverse ETL / data activation): supported via Data Activation for specific destinations like HubSpot, Customer.io, etc.[[Data activation 1.8](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/1.8/move-data/elt-data-activation); [Data activation 2.0](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/2.0/move-data/elt-data-activation)] If you describe your exact “destination” and “source” pair, I can help check whether Data Activation or a custom destination would cover your case.