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[brittle wigeon]

Hi there, you received two webhook notifications for the same event?

[lean spruce]

Yes

Created at the same time

There have been situations before where I've gotten repeat webhook notifications because our webhook processor had errors, or timed out, but never have we gotten two duplicate ones sent at the same time.

[brittle wigeon]

Let me take a look

Yes, I can see that two same events were sent at the same time.

It's rare but it happens occasionally. I'd suggest you to make your event processing idempotent as advised in the best practices doc https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/best-practices#duplicate-events

[lean spruce]

I can try adding some event logging, but then we're at the mercy of how close the two events are sent. If they're sent faster than my system can log an event, they'll still race.

Is there a way to raise this as an issue for Stripe to look into?

[brittle wigeon]

Sure I'll report this internally to the owning team.

[lean spruce]

Thank you, I appreciate that. I'll go write some idempotency code in the meantime.

Also, thank you for your help tonight.

[brittle wigeon]

You are welcome 🙂