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By a way, page https://www.chargebee.com/docs/metered_billing.html says an "invoice_created" event will be fired. I gues it's typo, should be pending_invoice_created

 Thanks,

>you would need to enable "Notify and wait to close invoices" option from under Site Settings

I've already done this.

>try creating a subscription. The invoice would be generated in a pending state and corresponding Webhook would get triggered to hit your URL server.

Well, I created V2 Webhook URL and tried out, but I got following event sequence for:

[Sat Jun  4 13:54:29 2016] invoice_generated
[Sat Jun  4 13:54:29 2016] subscription_created

or

[Sat Jun  4 13:51:21 2016] subscription_created
[Sat Jun  4 13:52:06 2016] invoice_generated
[Sat Jun  4 13:52:06 2016] subscription_started

depending on activation date (immediately or one minute in future ).

May be event pending invoice will be fired on next billing day (next month), but it's not option for development ))

Hey Pirozhkov,

Yes that's right.

When the subscription is created, an invoice_generated event is triggered immediately, and the pending_invoice_created event gets triggered only during subscription's renewal. So, if you'd like to test this webhook event, you could change the next billing date {to present time} using "Change Next Billing" option present on the right side panel of the particular subscription's page. The invoice would get generated in a 'pending' state and the webhook event is triggered immediately.

Here's a screenshot for your reference:

Hey Pirozhkov,

Thanks for your response.

So you mean to say, you are attempting to close a pending invoice and the subsequent webhook fails, what would happen if the same event is fired using the webhook in the next attempt?

In this case, as the event is associated with the webhook will be the same, when you try to close the invoice from the webhook call, you could retrieve the invoice from the invoice id that is present in the event, and use retrieve invoice API call and check for the correct invoice state.

Please let us know if you need any clarification.

Hey Pirozhkov,

In that case, automatic closure of invoice will not happen and it would still be in a pending state unless there is an initialization from your end {to close the invoice}.

Hey Pirozhkov,

In the web interface, it is mentioned - "Chargebee expects a 2xx HTTP response to the POST, otherwise the event notification will be retried. If we do not receive a 2xx response code, we will retry calling your webhook with exponential time intervals over the next 3 days."

So, this 3 days duration is split up in two - {1+2}, where the attempt is made on the first day and next attempt is made after 2 days from that point of time.

Here's a screenshot for your reference:

Hi,

I created a webhook of 'subscription_changed' but it automatically turns into subscription_created.

Why is this happening everytime. Need help regarding this.

Thanks!!

Hi Anamica

While we support configuring multiple webhooks, this is done so that you could configure webhooks for different platforms or applications. All the events would be triggered for each of the webhooks configured.

When you receive the webhooks, you could filter them at your end based on the event, and trigger necessary actions. You can read more about webhooks here

The subscription_changed option you selected below on the Webhook configuration window is only for testing the webhooks and it won't work as a filter when your webhooks are actually triggered. You can use the drop-down option to select a different event and test them with your configured webhook URL to understand how each event is received at your end. 

Here's an example of how event listening can be handled on your end. Let me know if that helps and if you have more questions.