Overview
Webhooks allow you to receive notifications of events that happen to your Xsolla transactions. Use webhooks to automate back-end and supplementary functions, such as providing status and other transaction-related information.
We use webhooks for payments, including purchases of virtual currency, items, games, physical goods and so on.
In most cases, webhooks are triggered by user actions on your website. But they can come from other actions, too. For example, a back-end process on your website may invoke an API method to refund a payment, or the payment system may send a notification about a disputed charge.
You must write or use a so-called listener, or handler, to receive and process webhooks. This is a program that waits for a webhook and usually passes it to an internal workflow of yours, which responds appropriately.
For example, you can do the following after receiving a webhook:
- Filling up a user’s balance
- Unlocking new item for a user
- Delivering physical goods to a user
Listen to webhooks at the following IP addresses: 185.30.20.0/24, 185.30.21.0/24, 185.30.23.0/24.
We cannot guarantee that your listener will receive all the webhooks we send. As internet connection is not 100% reliable, webhooks may fail to come on time or at all. Moreover, your listener may return a 5xx HTTP code for a temporary error on your server. For example, your listener returns a 500 HTTP response code in case a virtual item that a user purchased successfully was not added to the user’s inventory.
To reduce the risk of lost messages, the Xsolla alert service uses a retry mechanism. For messages that don’t reach their destination, the service resends them per the following frequency:
- 2 times with an interval of 5 minutes
- 7 times with an interval of 15 minutes
- 10 times with an interval of 60 minutes
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