Webhooks

Overview

Through the use of webhooks your application can subscribe to events that occur within Violet. Webhooks are an efficient alternative to continuously polling for anticipated events or changes to data.

As an example, a webhook can notify your app when on orders status has changed or a merchant has connected to your app. By being made aware of these events in near-real time your app can instantly react to updates and perform any necessary actions.

Webhook Events

Violet publishes the following Webhook events that your service can subscribe to for near-real time updates:

ORDER_UPDATED - Catchall event for any updates made to an order. An example of this might be a correction to a shoppers shipping address. These typically have no impact on the lifecycle of the order.

If you are looking to listen to only specific updates, the following webhook events can be subscribed to:

ORDER_COMPLETED - Will trigger when an order is placed by submiting a cart checkout.

ORDER_SHIPPED - Will trigger when an order is fulfilled by a merchant through their commerce platform. This will usually add additional information to the order like tracking data.

ORDER_REFUNDED - Will trigger when part or all of an order has been refunded, without order cancellation or item return.

ORDER_RETURNED - Will trigger when all or part of an order has been returned, with or without a refund.

ORDER_CANCELLED - Will trigger when all or part of an order has been cancelled, with or without a refund.

MERCHANT_CONNECTED - Will trigger when a merchant completes the Violet Connect onboarding experience and is successfully connected to your app. The data sent to the remote endpoint will contain all non-sensitive data related to that merchant, including their name and merchant ID.

MERCHANT_DISCONNECTED - Will trigger when a merchant disconnects from your app.

OFFER_CREATED - Will trigger when a new offer is created.

OFFER_UPDATED - Will trigger when an update is made to an offer.

OFFER_REMOVED - Will trigger when an offer is no longer available for purchase.

PRODUCT_SYNC_STARTED - Will trigger when the merchant's products begin syncing. Payload example here.

PRODUCT_SYNC_COMPLETED - Will trigger when the merchant's product sync is completed. Example here.

PRODUCT_SYNC_FAILED - Will trigger if the merchant's product sync fails. Example here.

MERCHANT_NEEDS_ATTENTION - Will trigger if the merchant has any INCOMPLETE or NEEDS_ATTENTION items during the connection health check. Example here.

Webhook Headers

Violet provides headers to all webhook calls that help understanding and filtering the events by your service.

Default headers

X-Violet-Hmac - Signed hmac with your app secret for conference.

X-Violet-Topic - Event topic as defined in Webhook Events section.

X-Violet-Event-Id - Unique event id. This allows your service to process an event just once in case of duplicated delivery.

X-Violet-Entity-Id - Related entity id.

X-Violet-Entity-Length - Entity's length (bytes) in body.

X-Violet-Webhook-Id - Triggered webhook id.

Aditional headers

Certain events may have aditional headers to support the webhook. Current aditional headers:

X-Violet-Order-Id - Related order id.

X-Violet-Bag-Id - Related entity id.

Custom headers

Violet also allows your service to define key-value pairs as headers to be sent together with your webhooks. This allows you to define specific headers to help identifying the events per webhook.

Please refer to Managing Webhook Headers.

Handling Order Related Webhooks

The body of the webhook sent to your remote endpoint will be a fully composed `Order` object. This order object will contain all bags and SKUs from the originally placed order. To determine which bag in order the event that triggered the webhook occurred on, you can consume the X-Violet-Bag-Id header which will contain the ID of the bag that has been updated.

Order webhooks will trigger when relevant order events occur in the external commerce platforms. Relevant events can include the following:

• Order Shipped
• Order Cancelled
• Order Refunded
• Order Returned

Any events in the area of cancellations, refunds, or returns may require some or all of the amount paid by the shopper to be returned to them. Information regarding any refunded amounts will be available in the order data.

Handling Offer Related Webhooks

The body of the webhook sent to your remote endpoint will be a fully composed `Offer` object. This offer object will contain all details of the offer, including related SKUs.

Offer webhooks will trigger when changes occur to offers in Violet platform. The events are categorized in the following:

• Offer Created
• Offer Updated
• Offer Removed



Handling Product Sync Webhooks

All Product Syncs share a payload in the following format. All fields except id, merchant_id, status and total_products are optional, and may be omitted entirely depending on the platform. Possible values for status are NOT_STARTED, PENDING, IN_PROGRESS, COMPLETED, FAILED, and ABORTED.

{
  "taxonomy_synced": false,
  "webhooks_created": true,
  "id": 144,
  "merchant_id": 10149,
  "status": "COMPLETED",
  "abort": false,
  "total_products": 5008,
  "total_products_synced": 4519,
  "resync_required": false,
  "date_last_synced": "2023-04-24T18:01:55+0000"
}

Handling Merchant Needs Attention webhooks

Merchant Needs Attention webhooks use the following format. Possible statuses are COMPLETE, INCOMPLETE, NEEDS_ATTENTION, NOT_APPLICABLE, and ERROR; the status(es) that caused the webhook to fire will be in INCOMPLETE or NEEDS_ATTENTION status.

{
  "merchant_id": 10054,
  "merchant_name": "WooCommerce's Store",
  "platform": "WOOCOMMERCE",
  "store_url": "woocommerce.violet.io",
  "distribution_type": "PRIVATE",
  "connection": {
    "results": {
      "is_connected": true,
      "has_shipping_methods": true
    },
    "status": "COMPLETE"
  },
  "scope_validation": {
    "results": {
      "valid": true,
      "missing_scopes": []
    },
    "status": "COMPLETE"
  },
  "sync_status": {
    "status": "NOT_APPLICABLE"
  },
  "invalid_products": {
    "status": "NOT_APPLICABLE"
  },
  "offers_published": {
    "results": {
      "sync_complete": false,
      "count": 8
    },
    "status": "COMPLETE"
  },
  "payout_account": {
    "results": {
      "id": 10043,
      "account_id": 10052,
      "account_type": "MERCHANT",
      "external_id": "acct_2JIpDR2c7q6FBT2u",
      "country_code": "US",
      "status": "COMPLETE",
      "date_created": "2021-02-11T23:03:59+0000",
      "date_last_modified": "2023-02-15T15:15:05+0000",
      "details": {
        "account_holder_name": "John Doe",
        "business_tax_id_provided": true,
        "tos_accepted": true,
        "website_url": "violet.io",
        "payouts_enabled": true,
        "payments_enabled": true,
        "has_payout_account": true,
        "currently_due": [],
        "eventually_due": [],
        "past_due": [],
        "pending_verification": []
      }
    },
    "status": "COMPLETE"
  },
  "migration_account": {
    "status": "ERROR",
    "error": {
      "message": "Unexpected paymentServiceAccountType: null"
    }
  },
  "commission_rate": {
    "default_rate": 10,
    "overrides": [],
    "status": "COMPLETE"
  },
  "terms_of_service": {
    "results": [],
    "status": "NEEDS_ATTENTION"
  },
  "channel_connections": {
    "total_connected": 5,
    "status": "COMPLETE"
  }
}

Handling Big Webhook Requests

Violet webhook request bodies always contain the related entity data disregarding its size. In a scenario that the client cannot consume the request entirely, it's possible to ignore the body and request it in a later moment.

All requests contain X-Violet-Entity-Length, X-Violet-Webhook-Id and X-Violet-Event-Id headers that allows a client to check the entity length in bytes and retrieve the data if finds it necessary.

Please refer to Webhook Events.