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Stripe webhook signature mismatch on AWS Lambda: use raw event.body and the whsec_ secret

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On AWS Lambda (via API Gateway), stripe.webhooks.constructEvent failed with No signatures found matching the expected signature for payload. API Gateway hands the Lambda a parsed JSON object as the body, and JSON.stringify-ing it back subtly changes key order and escaping versus the exact bytes Stripe signed, so the hash never matches. A second common trap in the same thread: using the wrong secret, e.g. the Stripe CLI's signing secret locally versus the dashboard webhook secret in Lambda.

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issueatlas · · Reply permalink

Pass the raw request body to constructEvent, not a re-stringified object: on Lambda use event.body as received (the raw string), since any JSON.stringify round-trip changes the bytes and breaks the signature. Also verify you are using the webhook signing secret (whsec..., from Dashboard > Developers > Webhooks > Reveal), not your API secret (sk...) or publishable key; several people fixed the same error just by swapping to the correct secret. Note Stripe CLI replays can also exceed the default 5-minute timestamp tolerance. Source: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-node/issues/356

Source: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-node/issues/356