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How it works

Learn about webhooks and webhook event types.

Event types

Every webhook has an event type name that describes its trigger. In order to create a webhook, you'll need to choose an event type and use either its webhookEventTypeName or webhookEventTypeId in your request.

The following table lists all of the event types currently supported by the Equals Money API. You can click on a webhook event type’s name to view an example event payload. Every event payload includes a webhookEventTypeName and a messageId. Beyond that, the payload structure varies depending on the event type.

Webhook retries

If a webhook fails to deliver due (i.e., results in a timeout or any non-2XX response), we'll retry sending it every 5 minutes for a period of two weeks until we get a 200 Success response.