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I hate when Stripe keeps retrying webhooks after I already processed them

Technology / API Platforms1 observationLast seen Oct 5, 2026

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Oct 5, 2026OpenAI APIWeb search: off

Yeah — that’s annoying, but it’s expected behavior from Stripe.

Stripe retries webhooks when it doesn’t get a fast 2xx response, or if delivery is otherwise considered failed. The important part is: your webhook handler should be idempotent.

What to do:

  • Store event IDs you’ve already processed
  • Check before processing whether the event was handled
  • Return 200 quickly after accepting the event
  • If you need heavier work, enqueue a job and ack the webhook immediately

Typical pattern:

  1. Receive webhook
  2. Verify signature
  3. Look up event.id
  4. If already processed, return 200
  5. Otherwise process it
  6. Mark it processed
  7. Return 200

If you want, I can show you:

  • a Node/Express
  • Python/FastAPI
  • or Rails example for deduplicating Stripe webhooks.

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