EventBar
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Get a Mac notification for every Stripe payment
One Stripe webhook endpoint pointed at EventBar gives you a notification and a count for checkouts, payments, refunds and disputes, each as its own switch in the menu bar.
Needs: the free EventBar app on your Mac, an EventBar account, and a Stripe account with permission to add webhooks. About five minutes. Stripe preset, signature verified.
Steps
- Create the webhook URL. In the EventBar dashboard, open the Webhooks tab, pick the group this belongs to (one group per site or app is the usual shape), choose the provider Stripe, name it, and press Create. Copy the URL; it stays visible and can be rotated any time.
- Paste it into Stripe. In the Stripe Dashboard: Developers, then Webhooks, then Add endpoint. Paste the URL and select the events you want, for example
checkout.session.completed,payment_intent.succeeded,charge.refundedandcharge.dispute.created. Reveal the endpoint's signing secret (whsec_…) and paste it into the hook card in EventBar. - Trigger one. Most services offer a test delivery; otherwise do the real thing once. It shows up in the dashboard's Events tab within a second and in the menu bar, as an undefined type named after the event. That first one is your proof the wiring works.
- Make it read well. Press Define on the new type and give it a title and a body template. Fields come from the payload, nested ones with dots. The table below is a starting point.
This preset is on Plus and Pro. Free can do the same with a Generic JSON hook and a type field of type, without the signature check.
What you'll see
| Type | Title | Body template |
|---|---|---|
checkout.session.completed | Checkout | {data.object.amount_total} {data.object.currency} · {data.object.customer_details.email} |
payment_intent.succeeded | Payment | {data.object.amount} {data.object.currency} |
charge.refunded | Refund | {data.object.amount_refunded} {data.object.currency} |
charge.dispute.created | Dispute | {data.object.amount} {data.object.currency} · {data.object.reason} |
Every type has its own switch in the menu bar, so a noisy one can be quiet on this Mac and still counted. Counts cover the last hour, 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days and all time.
Worth knowing
- Amounts are in the smallest unit (cents for USD), as Stripe sends them.
- Stripe's test mode and live mode have separate endpoints. Make two hooks if you want both, in two groups.
- Duplicates are dropped by the event
id. Signature checks use the five-minute tolerance Stripe recommends.
The full contract, including how each preset reads a payload and what the answers mean, is in the API docs. Something about Stripe's payload changed? Tell us and we'll fix the guide.