#cato_webhooks
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heavy ravine
I'm trying to find out how I can get notified on account deletions, and the AI is giving conflicting answers on whether this is possible or not.
icy vortex
are you a Connect platform?
heavy ravine
But is the .deauthorized the same thing as deleted?
"account.application.deauthorized: Occurs when a connected account disconnects from your platform (for accounts with Dashboard access)"
icy vortex
first, do you have Standard or Express/Custom accounts?
this is important
deleting a Connect Account https://docs.stripe.com/api/accounts/delete?api-version=2025-11-17.preview can only happen if you're creating Express or Custom accounts
in that case, you will receive account.updated event
heavy ravine
Good question, I'm a new developer on the team and am setting up the event consumption via event bridge currently. How do I know what type we're using?
icy vortex
what's your platform account ID?
heavy ravine
acct_19BLU8Djx6zFnDgm
icy vortex
ok so you have Custom Accounts
heavy ravine
gotcha
icy vortex
in that case as I said you listen to account.updated events
and you will see the deleted property set to true
but I'm asking why would you need a webhook endpoint for this?
heavy ravine
That's the thing though, in our test environment we've had quite a few deleted accounts the last 24 hours, but we've received no events with the flag set to true
icy vortex
the only way to delete a Custom Account is via an API call from your server
heavy ravine
because we're migrating from one system to another
and need to first make sure we're in sync with the data
so the /delete request is happening in the other system
I am thinking we might just call the new system's /delete endpoint when the old system has performed the deletion
although I was hoping I could consume the deleted event in the new system
But as I said, I cannot see that the deleted flag is ever true on the account.updated events
https://docs.stripe.com/api/accounts/object
this doesn't show the deleted flag in the object either, but I do see it in the SDK
icy vortex
you should listen to
account.application.deauthorized anyways
this would be fired for the deleted Custom account
heavy ravine
Ok. So it's safe to say that .deauthorized is the same as deleted? are there any scenarios where the same event does not mean it's deleted?
icy vortex
for the account to be really deleted it would need to disconnect from your applicatioin, so yes
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