Webhooks

Use the BILL webhooks to subscribe to and receive real time notifications for events, such as create a vendor, update a vendor, or create a payment. In addition, as a BILL partner, when you create a subscription for events, you get event notifications for all your created organizations.

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Rely on GET API operations for accuracy with critical workflows

While the BILL webhooks work as expected, we recommend that webhook notifications should not be treated as the only source of truth. BILL sends webhook notifications for a select set of updates.

For critical workflows, we recommend validating data with the GET API operations for accuracy and consistency.

When you subscribe to BILL events, you provide a location URL for where you want to receive notifications. BILL sends a notification to that URL each time a subscribed event is triggered.

In the next set of sections, we walk through the rules for working with BILL webhooks.

In addition, we list examples of the BILL webhook events and notification payloads in the Notification payloads reference.