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[west lava]

Hi
How are you triggering Events ?

You can run this express app in your local env

[real cipher]

No I want it so stripe sends events to my server if something happens like when a subscription was created or something. How would I trigger the events? I want to receive them when they happen

[west lava]

Yeah, I mean in order to test, you need to do some action in order that Stripe triggers the event as a result.

In order to test that express endpoint, you can run it locally

use Stripe cli in order to forward event to your local endpoint when they occure:
stripe listen --forward-to http://localhost:4242
https://stripe.com/docs/cli/listen#listen-forward-to

And then simulate triggering some events, e.g. stripe trigger checkout.session.completed
https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/test

[real cipher]

Well I create subscriptions for example like this:

const subscription = await stripe.subscriptions.create({
      customer: customerId,
      items: [{
        price: priceId,
      }],
      payment_behavior: 'default_incomplete',
      expand: ['latest_invoice.payment_intent'],
    });

This works. The subscription is created but I don't receive the event over the webhook

[west lava]

Is this express deployed in a server or you are running it locally ? in other words you want to receive the event in your server or locally for test first ?

[real cipher]

Right now I run it locally

Oh wait so it doesn't work like that locally?

So locally I need to do this stripe listen --forward-to thing but when I host it on a server I don't need to do that right?

[west lava]

Yes when you are on server you need to follow this guide:
https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/go-live

[real cipher]

Ok thank you I will try that later

[west lava]

Welcome!