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Webhooks and Idempotency: Building a Reliable Crypto Integration

A short, practical guide for developers: how to verify CryptoPayr webhooks, handle retries safely with idempotency, and never double-fulfil an order.

CryptoPayr Jul 8, 2026 2 min read

If you are integrating CryptoPayr yourself, two concepts will make your checkout bulletproof: signed webhooks and idempotency. Get these right and you will never double-ship an order or trust a forged callback.

Verify every webhook

When a payment changes state, CryptoPayr POSTs your webhook_url a JSON body and signs it with your API key using HMAC-SHA256, in the X-CryptoPayr-Signature header. Recompute it and compare before you trust anything:

$sig = hash_hmac('sha256', $rawBody, $YOUR_API_KEY);
if (!hash_equals($sig, $_SERVER['HTTP_X_CRYPTOPAYR_SIGNATURE'])) { http_response_code(401); exit; }

Only act on the payload once the signature matches and the status is COMPLETED.

Make fulfilment idempotent

Networks retry. You may receive the same webhook more than once, so fulfilment must be safe to run repeatedly. The pattern:

  1. Look up the order by its tid.
  2. If it is already marked fulfilled, return 200 and stop.
  3. Otherwise, fulfil it and mark it fulfilled in the same transaction.

On the create side, send an Idempotency-Key header with POST /api/v1/payment/create so a retried create returns the original payment instead of making a second one.

Respond fast, do work async

Acknowledge the webhook quickly with a 200, then do any slow fulfilment work in a background job. Slow webhook responses invite more retries.

Test before you ship

Run a small real payment end to end and confirm your handler marks the order paid exactly once. The full reference lives in the API docs.

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