Emergency WordPress support · Membership and LMS

How we restored broken Stripe webhooks on a membership site losing recurring revenue

A WordPress membership site stopped provisioning new members. Stripe was charging cards. The site never granted access. We traced it to a broken webhook endpoint, restored it in 90 minutes, and manually provisioned every paid signup the site had missed. Full recorded evidence is available on request during a discovery call.

90 min
From first call to webhooks live
100%
Missed signups manually provisioned
$0
Lost to refund requests

The challenge

Members were paying through Stripe but never receiving access. The webhook endpoint was returning 500 because a recent plugin update had changed the expected payload format. Stripe had been retrying and silently giving up.

What we did

  1. 1

    Pulled the Stripe webhook event log and confirmed the endpoint was the failure point.

  2. 2

    Read the plugin changelog, identified the payload contract change, patched the receiving handler.

  3. 3

    Replayed the failed Stripe events to provision every missed signup.

  4. 4

    Added a synthetic test that sends a dummy Stripe event nightly and alerts if the response is not 200.

The result

Webhooks were live again in under 90 minutes. Every missed signup was provisioned the same day with a personal email from the founder. No member asked for a refund.

Stripe was taking the money, the site was not giving access, and I had no idea. They caught it, fixed it, and saved every signup. Client identity withheld under NDA. Full Loom recording and dated evidence are available on request during a 15 minute discovery call.
Founder · WordPress membership business (identity withheld under NDA)

Common questions

Why do Stripe webhooks break after a plugin update?

Membership plugins read specific fields out of the Stripe event payload. When the plugin updates and changes the expected fields, the handler can throw and return a 500. Stripe retries for a while, then stops.

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