Stripe blog: New webhooks

by collision • 14 years ago

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seldo• 14 years ago

As a current Stripe customer we built our whole subscription billing system on their clever invoice_ready webhook, but this new way looks a lot more robust. Win!

PStamatiou2• 14 years ago

Loving it! I was just going through our webhook-initiated payment resque job last night to rewrite some of the legacy webhook stuff we had in place (and handle failed charges, which we never did until I recently filtered orders by status and saw a handful)

One tiny nitpick is that this field is too small IMO: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/186198/Screenshots/p5uf.png

Also nitpicky, I would like to have the test charge.failed webhook include a fake description param.

amfeng• 14 years ago

Done. (:

PStamatiou2• 14 years ago

Thanks!

barclay• 14 years ago

You guys seriously kick ass.

benatkin• 14 years ago

The webhook retry feature sounds fantastic!

bengo• 14 years ago

Is this documentation generated from something like docco (http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/) or pycco (http://fitzgen.github.com/pycco/)?

Would love to do something similar. Is the project open source? Or could you write a blog post about your documentation setup?

Great work! Webhooks are the best.

6ren• 14 years ago

Stripe is intimidatingly good. A test mode that you don't need to sign up to play with. Excellent sinatra sample code for webhooks. Then, I read their background, which is also intimidatingly good: funded by PayPal founders; one co-founder was a YCer with a $5 million exit at 19yo. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539414)

I have one suggestion: for the browser test mode, allow invalid CC numbers (or, provide a test CC number), so one doesn't have to go and find and type in a real-life credit card, to try it out.

_pius• 14 years ago

I have one suggestion: for the browser test mode, allow invalid CC numbers (or, provide a test CC number), so one doesn't have to go and find and type in a real-life credit card, to try it out

4242424242424242 with any three digit number for the CVC

james33• 14 years ago

Even Stripe's blog is beautiful.

alexchamberlain• 14 years ago

This does look awesome. However, the article states that to verify authenticity, you can request the event from the API. This seems awfully inefficient.

A better solution would be to supply everyone with a set of keys and you sign each object using the private key which can be verified by the public key. No network ops - whoop!

Stripe blog: New webhooks

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