How to Configure Stripe Webhooks for Your Serverless SaaS
Introduction
Stripe webhooks are essential for building reliable payment processing in your serverless SaaS application. They provide real-time notifications about payment events, ensuring your application stays synchronized with payment status changes without requiring manual intervention.
This tutorial focuses on implementing Stripe webhooks using AWS serverless services including AWS Lambda functions, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and AWS Secrets Manager. We'll walk through configuring webhook endpoints that automatically scale with your traffic while maintaining zero idle costs. If you're wondering why we reference Lambda functions and other AWS services, it's because we're building a complete serverless payment processing system on AWS.
In this comprehensive guide, we'll walk through configuring Stripe webhooks for a serverless architecture using AWS Lambda, including webhook verification, event handling, and best practices for secure payment processing automation.
This guide focuses on implementing Stripe webhooks in a serverless environment. If you're building a serverless SaaS with the Scale to Zero AWS Kit, webhook handling infrastructure is already pre-configured and ready to use.