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Stripe blog: New webhooks

91 points by collision 15y ago

seldo 15y 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!
PStamatiou 15y 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 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 15y ago
  Done. (:
  - PStamatiou 15y ago
    Thanks!
  - barclay 15y ago
    You guys seriously kick ass.
benatkin 15y ago
The webhook retry feature sounds fantastic!
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bengo 15y ago
Is this documentation generated from something like docco (http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/ http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/) or pycco (http://fitzgen.github.com/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 15y 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 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 15y 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 15y ago
Even Stripe's blog is beautiful.
alexchamberlain 15y 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!

91 points by collision 15y ago

seldo 15y 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!

PStamatiou 15y 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 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 15y ago
Done. (:
- PStamatiou 15y ago
  Thanks!
- barclay 15y ago
  You guys seriously kick ass.

benatkin 15y ago

The webhook retry feature sounds fantastic!

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bengo 15y ago

Is this documentation generated from something like docco (http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/ http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/) or pycco (http://fitzgen.github.com/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 15y 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 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 15y 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 15y ago

Even Stripe's blog is beautiful.

alexchamberlain 15y 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!