diff --git a/qqq-backend-core/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/processes/implementations/tablesync/AbstractTableSyncTransformStep.java b/qqq-backend-core/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/processes/implementations/tablesync/AbstractTableSyncTransformStep.java
index 5b1bc1b7..367bea56 100644
--- a/qqq-backend-core/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/processes/implementations/tablesync/AbstractTableSyncTransformStep.java
+++ b/qqq-backend-core/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/processes/implementations/tablesync/AbstractTableSyncTransformStep.java
@@ -319,8 +319,14 @@ public abstract class AbstractTableSyncTransformStep extends AbstractTransformSt
             continue;
          }
 
+         ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+         // if we received a record to store add to the output records //
+         ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
          recordToStore = populateRecordToStore(runBackendStepInput, recordToStore, sourceRecord);
-         runBackendStepOutput.addRecord(recordToStore);
+         if(recordToStore != null)
+         {
+            runBackendStepOutput.addRecord(recordToStore);
+         }
       }
 
       ////////////////////////////////////////////////
diff --git a/qqq-backend-module-api/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/module/api/actions/BaseAPIActionUtil.java b/qqq-backend-module-api/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/module/api/actions/BaseAPIActionUtil.java
index e32ede54..c2617519 100644
--- a/qqq-backend-module-api/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/module/api/actions/BaseAPIActionUtil.java
+++ b/qqq-backend-module-api/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/module/api/actions/BaseAPIActionUtil.java
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPut;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpRequestBase;
 import org.apache.http.entity.AbstractHttpEntity;
 import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
@@ -320,8 +321,8 @@ public class BaseAPIActionUtil
          {
             try
             {
-               String   url     = buildTableUrl(table);
-               HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url);
+               String  url     = buildTableUrl(table);
+               HttpPut request = new HttpPut(url);
                request.setEntity(recordsToEntity(table, recordList));
 
                QHttpResponse response = makeRequest(table, request);