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:    • Checkout 101: low code, prebuilt, hos...  
Checkout playlist:    • Stripe Checkout  


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