Register and verify a Shopify webhook subscription

domain: shopify.com · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. POST webhookSubscriptionCreate (GraphQL) with topic and callbackUrl (must be HTTPS)
  2. On delivery, read X-Shopify-Hmac-Sha256 header
  3. Compute HMAC-SHA256 of the raw body with your app's API secret, base64, and compare
  4. Respond 200 within 5 seconds; Shopify retries 19 times over 48h then deletes the subscription

Known gotchas

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