Stripe Connect: listening and processing connected account webhooks

In this episode, you'll learn how to build a a Stripe Connect webhook handler to handle asynchronous events happening both in your platform and on your connected accounts. The platform we're building in this series allows creators to produce creative content (e.g., a newsletter), publish their content, and monetize their content with paid subscriptions. This is episode 14 in the series. Stay tuned and subscribe for updates. We'll cover all the ins and outs of Stripe Connect, how you need to model and store things in your database, how to handle authentication, how to process web hooks and post-payment events in your Stripe account, how to onboard creators, how to use Stripe Checkout on the front end to securely accept payment, how to setup the Stripe Customer Portal to allow subscribers to manage their payments and subscriptions. Presenter CJ Avilla - Software Engineer -   / cjav_dev   Table of contents 00:00 Introduction 01:05 Different types of webhooks 03:02 Creating webhook endpoints 05:32 Processing events 08:25 Magic strings for testing 10:32 Handling processing errors 13:20 Adding a default account 14:40 Next steps Resources Stripe Connect docs: https://stripe.com/docs/connect Stripe Connect guide: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/explo... Sidekiq: https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq Tailwind UI: https://tailwindui.com/ Stripe Checkout: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/chec... Stripe Customer Portal: https://stripe.com/docs/customer-mana... Checkout 101 video series:    • Playlist   Checkout playlist:    • Stripe Checkout   Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88 #stripe #payments #ruby #rails #webhooks