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The Plain-English Guide to Webhooks

Written by Jamie Juviler

The Plain-English Guide to Webhooks

Third-party web-based applications are becoming increasingly common among businesses of all sizes. They provide specialized tools and infrastructure to save time and resources, from handling monetary transactions to email automation, and so much more. All of these interacting applications need ways of communicating efficiently, in a way that streamlines procedures and suits your needs.

The Plain-English Guide to Webhooks

What are webhooks, and how do they work?

By Mark Hoover, October 07, 2021

What are webhooks, and how do they work?

A term coined in 2007, a webhook allows different apps to send user-defined callbacks to one another via HTTP POST requests. In plainer English, webhooks allow notifications to be sent from one app to another app when a certain event occurs.

What are webhooks, and how do they work?

What is a Webhook?

Prashant Ram, Mar 31, 2018

What is a Webhook?

Web hooks are a incredibly useful and a resource-light way to implement event reactions. Web hooks provide a mechanism where by a server-side application can notify a client-side application when a new event (that the client-side application might be interested in) has occurred on the server.

What is a Webhook?

What are webhooks?

By Matthew Guay · September 12, 2020

What are webhooks?

You might have seen webhooks mentioned in your apps' settings and wondered if they're something you should use. The answer, in a nutshell, is probably yes. Webhooks are one way that apps can send automated messages or information to other apps. It's how PayPal tells your accounting app when your...

What are webhooks?