Stripe webhooks you can trust
Webhook failures happen quietly and cost real money. Monitoring, testing, and replaying the events your billing depends on.
Stripe webhooks failing silently — and how to catch it
The payment succeeds even when the webhook fails, so nothing looks broken until a customer writes in. The real retry-and-disable timeline, the raw-body trap, and how to catch it inside the window.
Stripe webhook signature verification failed: the raw-body fix
"No signatures found matching the expected signature" almost always means a body parser changed the request bytes before verification ran. Here's what Stripe actually compares, and the raw-body fix for each framework.
Stripe webhook duplicate events: stop the double charge
Stripe's delivery is at-least-once, so the same event can arrive twice and charge a customer twice. Here's why it happens, and how to make your handler idempotent with the event id so running it twice is safe.
Stripe subscription not activating after payment
Paid but still not upgraded? The subscription's status splits it in two: stuck in 'incomplete' means the payment never finalized; active-in-Stripe-but-not-your-app means a webhook never landed. Here's how to tell which.
How to test Stripe webhooks locally (and what it won't prove)
The Stripe CLI brings events to your machine — stripe listen forwards them, stripe trigger fires them. Here are the commands, the signing-secret gotcha, and why passing locally doesn't prove the live endpoint works.