Webhooks are the backbone of real-time e-commerce automation. Instead of polling the Shopify REST API every 15 minutes, webhooks push notifications to your server the millisecond an event occurs.
How to Create a Webhook in Shopify Admin
- From your Shopify Admin, navigate to Settings $ ightarrow$ Notifications.
- Scroll down to the Webhooks section and click Create webhook.
- Select the Event (e.g.
Order cancellationorOrder creation). - Set the Format to
JSONand paste your endpoint URL. - Select the latest API Version and click Save.
Verifying Webhook HMAC Signatures
Always verify the X-Shopify-Hmac-Sha256 header using your shared webhook secret to ensure requests genuinely originate from Shopify.
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