Is it possible to receive a Stripe Webhook for a payment event before I can hit my servers controller to finish processing?

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In my app, on the client side, I'm calling Stripe's "confirmCardPayment()" to finish the purchase. When the result comes back I take the result, if successful, and then call my server controller to finish the processing (DB entry).

QUESTION - Would it be possible to confirm the payment on the client side with Stripe and then receive the Stripe Webhook on the server side before I have time to post back to the controller to finish the payment processing? Or put another way, is the Webhook sent immediately or does it wait for some time before it's sent to the endpoint?

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Stripe does not guarantee delivery of events in the order in which they are generated. You can read about it in more detail here : https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/best-practices#event-ordering

You would want to always rely on the webhook to update your database or execute business logic as relying on requests triggered from the browser isn't reliable. E.g. Your customer could close the browser after the payment is authorised but before you are able to post to your server to update your database.

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