How to Receive and Handle Stripe Webhooks

Understand webhooks and how Stripe uses them. Learn to set up Stripe webhooks and configure your app to receive and handle webhook events properly.

Payments

Learning Highlights

1:12
Understanding how Stripe webhooks enable real-time event listening by sending data to a URL whenever specific events occur, such as customer creation or successful payments.
3:00
Learn to configure webhook events in Stripe's test environment, selecting critical events like checkout.session.completed, customer.created, customer.subscription.created, and invoice.payment_succeeded.
8:00
How to secure webhook endpoints by implementing webhook signing secret verification, ensuring incoming payloads are legitimate and preventing unauthorized data from compromising your system.
12:00
Discover why Ngrok creates a tunnel between local and cloud environments, enabling developers to test webhook implementations locally before production deployment by making localhost accessible via a public URL.

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Learn how webhooks work, then set up Stripe webhooks to handle real-time subscription events.

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