Stripe Webhook Failures

Stripe Webhook Failures

Signature Verification Failed

Symptom: Webhook signature verification failed

Causes:

Solutions:

stripe:
  webhookSecret: ${STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET}

// Use raw request body, not parsed JSON
String payload = request.getReader().lines()
    .collect(Collectors.joining());

Timeouts

Symptom: Webhook events showing as failed in Stripe dashboard

Solution: Process webhooks asynchronously:

@PostMapping("/webhook")
public ResponseEntity<String> handleWebhook(@RequestBody String payload) {
    // Acknowledge immediately
    eventQueue.add(payload);
    return ResponseEntity.ok("received");
}