Stripe webhooks retrying too much

If Stripe webhooks are retrying too much, it usually means Stripe is not getting a successful 2xx response quickly and consistently from your endpoint.

Common causes

• Your webhook handler is returning non-2xx responses
• Your server is timing out before responding
• Your endpoint is throwing an exception
• Your app is returning 200 only after doing slow work
• Your endpoint URL is wrong or behind auth/firewall
• You’re verifying the signature incorrectly and rejecting valid events

What Stripe expects

Stripe wants your webhook endpoint to:

1. Receive the event
2. Validate it
3. Quickly respond with 200 OK
4. Do any heavy processing afterward in a background job/queue

Fix pattern

A good webhook flow is:

• Parse and verify the event
• Store the event id
• Enqueue processing
• Return 200 OK immediately

Example

If your handler does database work, API calls, or email sending inline, move that to an async worker.

Important notes

• Stripe retries for up to 3 days in live mode.
• Retries happen on network failures, timeouts, and non-2xx responses.
• Duplicate events can happen, so your handler should be idempotent.

Things to check

• Stripe Dashboard → Developers → Webhooks → endpoint → delivery attempts
• Look at the exact HTTP status codes and response bodies
• Check server logs for crashes/timeouts
• Confirm your endpoint responds within a few seconds

If you want to stop retries temporarily

You can’t directly “turn off” Stripe retries for failed deliveries. You need to make the endpoint return a successful response or disable the endpoint in Stripe if needed.

If you want, I can help you debug this more specifically if you paste:

• your webhook code
• the status codes Stripe is receiving
• any error logs