Webhooks Overview

Webhooks can notify your service about events that happen on any Persona resource. See the Events page for a description of supported events.

Choosing the right notification method

For most scenarios, Webhooks are an easy-to-use and effective way to receive event notifications from Persona. However, if your application requires instant updates, such as making real-time decisions or ensuring a smooth user experience based on immediate outcomes, consider using our API to poll for updates instead. In certain scenarios, utilizing APIs can enable you to balance the need for up-to-date information in your larger integration with Persona.

Webhooks setup

To set up Webhooks, go to Integration > Webhooks in the Dashboard.

Only enabled events in the specified environment will be sent to your application. You can use a tool like ngrok to test webhooks locally in your sandbox environment.

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Manage your webhooks programmatically via the Webhooks API

Versioning

Every Webhook can be configured to a specific API version. When we make backwards-incompatible changes to the API, we release new, dated versions. The latest released version is <<LATEST_VERSION>>. Keep track of changes and upgrades to the Persona API through our API Changelog.

You can visit your Dashboard to upgrade the API version for your Webhooks. As a precaution, use API versioning to test a new API version before committing to an upgrade. Different Webhooks can be on different API versions.

Responding to Events

Webhook events are sent via POST according to the JSON:API specification.

Affected and related objects are included in the payload attribute. Objects within the payload use the same schema as their API resource endpoints.

Example event from webhook:

{
  "data": {
    "type": "event",
    "id": "evt_XGuYWp7WuDzNxie5z16s7sGJ",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "inquiry.approved",
      "payload": {
        "data": {
          "type": "inquiry"
          "id": "inq_2CVZ4HyVg7qaboXz2PUHknAn",
          "attributes": {
            "status": "approved",
            "reference-id": null,
            "created-at": "2019-09-09T22:40:56.000Z",
            "completed-at": "2019-09-09T22:44:51.000Z",
            "expired-at": null
          },
          "relationships": {
            "reports": {
              "data": []
            },
            "template": {
              "data": {
                "id": "blu_biqYXr3aNfHuLeXUdJUNFNET",
                "type": "template"
              }
            },
            "verifications": {
              "data": [
                {
                  "id": "ver_KnqQRXmxmtquRE65CHTzymhR",
                  "type": "verification/driver-license"
                },
                {
                  "id": "ver_2aguhcwq66zcmqipmrqjxw68",
                  "type": "verification/selfie"
                }
              ]
            }
          },
        },
        "included": [
          {
            "type": "template"
            "id": "blu_biqYXr3aNfHuLeXUdJUNFNET",
            "attributes": {
              "name": "Acme #1"
            },
          },
          {
            "type": "verification/driver-license"
            "id": "ver_KnqQRXmxmtquRE65CHTzymhR",
            "attributes": {
              "status": "passed",
              "front-photo-url": "...",
              "created-at": "2019-09-09T22:41:29.000Z",
              "completed-at": "2019-09-09T22:41:40.000Z",

              ...
            },
          },
          {
            "type": "verification/selfie"
            "id": "ver_2aguhcwq66zcmqipmrqjxw68",
            "attributes": {
              "status": "passed",
              "center-photo-url": "...",
              "left-photo-url": "...",
              "right-photo-url": "...",
              "created-at": "2019-09-09T22:42:43.000Z",
              "completed-at": "2019-09-09T22:42:46.000Z",

              ...
            },
          }
        ]
      }
      "created-at": "2019-09-09T22:46:27.598Z",
    }
  }
}

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Including sensitive information in the payload

Due to data privacy requirements and the sensitivity of the data, we allow attributes (e.g. name, birthdate) to be filtered out via a blocklist. Please see Webhook Blocklists for more information.

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Order of received events

The order of your received webhook events may not match the order of our events creation because of various factors like network request latency and exponential retries on failures. Included in the attributes of the request body is the event's created-at timestamp if you need to determine server-side ordering.

Retry logic

If Persona does not receive a successful response from your endpoint within 5 seconds, we will attempt to deliver your webhook up to 8 times with an exponential backoff between attempts (3, 66, 731, 4098, 15627, 46658, 117651, 262146 seconds). After the final failure, you can still manually retry the webhook event from the Dashboard.

We consider the following HTTP status codes to be successful responses:

• 200 OK
• 201 Created
• 202 Accepted
• 204 No Content

Retention policy

Webhook events are subject to a 90 day retention policy. Webhook events are deleted 90 days after their creation and will be unaccessible via the Persona dashboard or API at that point.

IP addresses

The full list of IP addresses that webhook and workflow requests may come from is:

Germany

35.246.155.45
34.89.193.61
34.89.158.43
35.198.149.197
34.159.83.62
34.159.68.157

India

34.93.21.229
35.244.13.71
34.93.90.104
34.93.222.99

United States

35.232.44.140
34.69.131.123
34.67.4.225
34.66.30.174
34.123.74.158
34.41.116.165
34.145.62.98
34.105.116.226
34.168.249.74
35.199.156.187
34.105.58.25
35.230.80.200