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Payment succeeded

A payment_succeeded event is fired when a payment is made into your Paddle account.

Information sent in the payload for a payment_succeeded webhook is summarised in the table below.

Property Type Description Example
alert_id string The unique identifier for this Paddle webhook alert. Integer value sent as a string.
alert_name string The alert name.
Default: payment_succeeded
balance_currency string The three-letter ISO currency code of the vendor’s account balance at the time of the transaction. USD GBP EUR
balance_earnings string The amount of revenue added to the vendor’s balance as a result of this payment, in the vendor’s balance_currency at the time of the transaction.
balance_fee string The fee amount taken from the vendor, in the vendor’s balance_currency at the time of the transaction.
balance_gross string The total amount received from the customer as a result of the payment, in the vendor’s balance_currency at the time of the transaction.
balance_tax string The amount of tax received from the customer, in the vendor’s balance_currency at the time of the transaction.
checkout_id string The checkout id of the order created. 27835673-chre93c81118fc7-b3092639c1
country string The two-letter ISO country code of the customer. For a full list of supported countries, see our Supported Countries page. US GB
coupon string The coupon code that was used on this order.

Min Length: >=5 characters
Max Length: <=300 characters
currency string The three-letter ISO currency code. For a full list of supported currencies, see our Supported Currencies page. USD GBP
custom_data string A JSON encoded string of custom data that was passed into the checkout for this purchase {"external_id": 42}
customer_name string The name of the customer. For card payments, this will return the cardholder name entered by the buyer during the checkout. For PayPal payments, this will return the name from the PayPal account used during the checkout. For all other payment methods where the name is not collected (including Apple Pay and Wire Transfer), this will be empty.
earnings string The amount of this payment that was credited to your balance.
email string<email> The email address of the customer.
event_time string<date-time> The date and time the event was triggered in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
fee string The fee taken by Paddle for this payment.
ip string This field is deprecated and will be removed in a future update.
marketing_consent string The value of this field 0 or 1 indicates whether the user has agreed to receive marketing messages from the vendor.
Allowed values: 0 1
order_id string The Paddle Order ID for this payment. This can be used to look up the order within your Vendor Dashboard.
p_signature string This field contains an encrypted token that you can use to verify the request authenticity. See Verifying Webhooks.
passthrough string This field contains any values that you passed into the checkout using the passthrough parameter. See the Pass Parameters documentation for more information.
Max Length: <=1000 characters
payment_method string Payment method used to make the transaction.
free card paypal wire-transfer apple-pay google-pay ideal alipay
payment_tax string The amount of this payment that was paid in tax/VAT.
product_id string The dashboard ID of the product purchased in this order.
product_name string The name of the product included in the transaction.
quantity string The number of products or subscription seats sold in the transaction.
receipt_url string<uri> A URL where the receipt for the transaction can be retrieved.
sale_gross string The total value of the sale (including tax) in the sale currency.
used_price_override string Determines whether the Dashboard price was overridden.
Allowed values: 1 0