A receiver has to be secure, correct and honest about what it cannot handle. Here is how events are verified, interpreted and tracked from arrival to action.
Every incoming webhook is verified against the sending system's own signing method, so a call claiming to be from your payment provider or logistics partner is confirmed as genuine before its payload is even read, let alone acted on.
Once verified, the payload is interpreted to determine what type of event it is and what it implies for your ERP, even when the payload structure varies slightly between similar event types. Anything the interpretation is not confident about is flagged rather than acted on.
Webhook providers often retry a delivery if they do not get a fast enough acknowledgement, which can otherwise result in the same event being processed twice. Each event is checked against a processed-event record before any action is taken, so retries are safe by design.
Unrecognised or low-confidence events gathered for review with the raw payload.
Every received event and the action it triggered, kept for audit and debugging.
Notification when a source stops sending expected events or errors spike.
Separate, correctly configured receivers for each external event source.
A live view of incoming event volume, success rate and flagged items.
Built so the underlying interpretation approach can be upgraded without a rebuild.
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