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[royal rose]

hello! You would want to listen for the checkout.session.completed event [0] or retrieve the Checkout Session object [1] to see the custom values the user inputs during Checkout

See these references for more details about webhooks :

• https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks
• https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/quickstart

You can take a look at this document for Subscription related webhooks :
https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/webhooks

[0] https://site-admin.stripe.com/docs/api/events/types#event_types-checkout.session.completed
[1] https://stripe.com/docs/api/checkout/sessions/retrieve

[strong crater]

Are there equivalents of those links specifically for the stripe js package?

[royal rose]

the webhooks quickstart provides you with an example using node

it uses our stripe-node sdk : https://github.com/stripe/stripe-node

[strong crater]

Awesome, thanks

[strong crater]

Wait, so with this webhook stuff, you essentially need to create a local API to communicate with the rest of stripe, am I correct in understanding that?

[royal rose]

what do you mean by local API?

[strong crater]

The code I'm looking at in the documentation appears to want to create an express app. My code is all backend with nothing frontend so I shouldn't need to do that. Is there documentation surrounding not needing to do that part while still having everything work as expected?

[royal rose]

express is used to manage your server routes - https://expressjs.com/en/guide/routing.html

[strong crater]

But that's the thing, I don't need that.