Register a Finch webhook endpoint and verify signatures with HMAC-SHA256
domain: hr-payroll · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Create a webhook endpoint in the Finch Developer Dashboard; webhooks require a Starter, Pro, or Premier plan (not available on legacy Free/Build plans)
Store the one-time webhook secret shown at creation time
On receipt, extract the Finch-Event-Id, Finch-Timestamp, and Finch-Signature headers, and build the signed content string {webhook_id}.{webhook_timestamp}.{body}
Base64-decode the secret, compute an HMAC-SHA256 digest of the signed content, base64-encode it, and compare against each signature listed in Finch-Signature (space-delimited, to support secret rotation)
Reject the webhook if the timestamp is more than five minutes old, and respond 200 immediately, processing the payload asynchronously
Known gotchas
Finch does not guarantee delivery order - an individual's update event can arrive before its created event, so re-fetch via the API rather than trusting sequence
Delivery is retried immediately, then at 5s, 5min, 30min, and 2h; after that the event is dropped and must be reconciled via API polling
Use the Finch-Event-Id for idempotency - the same event can be delivered more than once
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