--- title: How to Handle Stripe Webhooks Reliably with Background Jobs description: A practical guide to building reliable webhook handlers for post-payment flows using durable background jobs. The naive approach of processing everything... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-handle-stripe-webhooks-reliably-with-background-jobs-hc1vqu7fi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Handle Stripe Webhooks Reliably with Background Jobs | daily.dev og:description: A practical guide to building reliable webhook handlers for post-payment flows using durable background jobs. The naive approach of processing everything... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-handle-stripe-webhooks-reliably-with-background-jobs-hc1vqu7fi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Hc1vqU7FI.png og:image:alt: How to Handle Stripe Webhooks Reliably with Background Jobs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Handle Stripe Webhooks Reliably with Background Jobs **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 26 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A practical guide to building reliable webhook handlers for post-payment flows using durable background jobs. The naive approach of processing everything inline in a single webhook handler leads to duplicate emails, partial state, and unrecoverable failures when any step fails mid-execution. The solution is to keep the webhook endpoint minimal (validate signature, enqueue event, return 200) and move all processing into a durable function where each step is individually checkpointed. Using TypeScript with Node.js and the durable execution platform, each operation (database writes, emails, GitHub API calls, analytics) becomes its own retryable step. If step 5 fails, steps 1-4 don't re-run. The pattern also covers refund handling, abandoned checkout recovery using step.sleep(), and local testing with the CLI and dev dashboard. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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