Hey everyone,
I’m using Square Webhooks to listen for payment updates, but sometimes, I notice that the webhook fails to deliver due to network issues. I know Square retries failed webhooks, but I’m wondering what’s the best way to log and handle these retries properly?
How do you ensure your system processes the webhook only once without missing updates?
Thanks!
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Square provides a feature called Webhook Event Logs that allows you to view information about a webhook event notification that was created by an API request. You can see the payload of the notification, as well as which endpoint the notification was sent to. This includes the status code returned by your endpoint when it received the webhook event notification, when the event notification was sent and when it was received, and the reason why a retry occurred for the notification.
To ensure your system processes the webhook only once, you can implement idempotency in your system. This means that no matter how many times a request (in this case, a webhook event) is repeated, the outcome will be the same. This can be achieved by storing the event ID of each processed webhook and checking if an incoming webhook event has already been processed before processing it. If it has, you can simply ignore it.
Remember, the webhook event logs are maintained for a rolling 28-day period, so you can always go back and check if you’ve missed any updates.
This answer was reviewed by @Bryan-Square.
Yes Offcourse It help me alot thanks…