---
title: "Event notification"
method: POST
path: "event"
---

# Event notification

`POST event` (webhook)

When an event you've subscribed to occurs, Buttondown sends an HTTP `POST` to your configured webhook URL. If the webhook has a signing key, the request carries an `X-Buttondown-Signature: sha256=<hmac>` header — an HMAC-SHA256 of the raw request body keyed with your signing key. Respond with any 2xx status to acknowledge receipt; five consecutive non-2xx responses disable the webhook.

## Payload

- WebhookEvent — The payload Buttondown delivers to a configured webhook URL when a subscribed event fires.
  - `id` string, required — The unique TypeID of the event that triggered this delivery.
  - `event_type` 'advertising_slot.inquiry' | 'advertising_slot.purchased' | 'automation.invoked' | 'date.day.started' | 'date.month.started' | 'date.week.started' | 'date.year.started' | 'bigcommerce.customer.created' | 'bigcommerce.customer.updated' | 'bigcommerce.order.created' | 'bigcommerce.order.updated' | 'email.created' | 'email.deleted' | 'email.sent' | 'email.status.changed' | 'email.updated' | 'external_feed_item.created' | 'export.completed' | 'export.created' | 'export.failed' | 'firewall.blocked' | 'mention.created' | 'memberful.member.updated' | 'memberful.subscription.created' | 'memberful.subscription.deleted' | 'note.created' | 'note.deleted' | 'patreon.member.updated' | 'patreon.membership.created' | 'patreon.membership.deleted' | 'shopify.customer.created' | 'shopify.customer.updated' | 'social_mention.created' | 'stripe.checkout.session.completed' | 'stripe.customer.updated' | 'stripe.invoice.upcoming' | 'stripe.subscription.activated' | 'stripe.subscription.churning' | 'stripe.subscription.deactivated' | 'subscriber.activation_bounced' | 'subscriber.activation_clicked' | 'subscriber.activation_complained' | 'subscriber.activation_deferred' | 'subscriber.activation_delivered' | 'subscriber.activation_opened' | 'subscriber.activation_rejected' | 'subscriber.bounced' | 'subscriber.changed_email' | 'subscriber.churned' | 'subscriber.clicked' | 'subscriber.commented' | 'subscriber.complained' | 'subscriber.confirmed' | 'subscriber.created' | 'subscriber.deferred' | 'subscriber.deleted' | 'subscriber.delivered' | 'subscriber.opened' | 'subscriber.paid' | 'subscriber.paused' | 'subscriber.resumed' | 'subscriber.referred' | 'subscriber.referred.paid' | 'subscriber.rejected' | 'subscriber.replied' | 'subscriber.sent' | 'subscriber.responded_to_survey' | 'subscriber.tags.changed' | 'subscriber.trial_ended' | 'subscriber.trial_started' | 'subscriber.type.changed' | 'subscriber.unsubscribed' | 'subscriber.updated' | 'subscriber.viewed_checkout_page' | 'survey.cleared_responses' | 'survey.created' | 'survey.deleted' | 'survey.updated' | 'form.created' | 'form.deleted' | 'form.updated', required — Various types of events that are recorded by Buttondown, both in terms of exogenous systems like Stripe and Memberful, and endogenous ones like email opens and clicks. (In general, if anything important ever happens that could be relevant to your newsletter, we have an event type for it!) These event types power lots of things within Buttondown. They're used to trigger automations, webhooks, and analytics. (Note that the `/v1/events` API speaks an older, shorter vocabulary for subscriber engagement — `clicked` rather than `subscriber.clicked` — a relic of a previous events system. Each of those names maps onto one of the `subscriber.*` types below.) In general, our event namespacing tries to hew to the following pattern: `<source>.<object>.<action>` When wondering which object we are referring to, default to the _more granular_ object. For instance, an email being sent to a subscriber is `subscriber.delivered`, not `email.sent`.
  - `data` object, required — Event-specific metadata. The shape varies by `event_type`. Accounts with more than one newsletter also receive a `newsletter` ID to disambiguate which one the event belongs to.

## Acknowledgement `2XX`

Return any 2xx status to acknowledge the event.

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