Stop Losing Shopify Webhooks: A Retry Strategy That Survives Real Outages
The article discusses the challenges Shopify developers face with webhook delivery failures during outages. It emphasizes the importance of implementing a robust retry strategy to prevent data loss when Shopify's built-in retries are insufficient. The author provides insights on how to structure webhook handling to improve reliability and ensure that critical events are not missed.
- ▪Shopify retries failed webhooks up to 8 times over a 4-hour window with exponential backoff.
- ▪Persistent failures can lead to the deletion of the webhook subscription, stopping new events from firing.
- ▪Developers are advised to implement their own retry layer and avoid heavy processing in webhook endpoints.
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| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 00:40:32 +0000 |
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