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Hooks

Reliable outbound events for external systems.

What is Hooks?

Hooks sends events to external systems—webhooks to third-party APIs, integrations with SaaS platforms, notifications to partners. It handles delivery, retries, failures, and tracking.

Hooks manages outbound webhook delivery with configurable retry policies, failure handling, signature verification, and delivery logs. It supports fan-out to multiple endpoints, conditional delivery rules, and payload transformation. Events can be triggered by API calls, streams, or worker jobs—ensuring external systems stay synchronized with your application state.

Key Features

  • Guaranteed delivery
  • Automatic retry logic
  • Signature verification
  • Delivery tracking
  • Payload transformation
  • Fan-out to multiple endpoints
  • Conditional delivery rules
  • Failure handling

Common Use Cases

How teams use Hooks to build better systems

Webhook Delivery

Send events to external systems with guaranteed delivery and retry logic

Third-Party Integration

Trigger workflows in external platforms like Slack, Stripe, or Zapier

Payment Processing

Notify payment providers of transaction events with reliable delivery

Partner APIs

Keep partner systems in sync with your data through webhook notifications

Monitoring Alerts

Send system events to external monitoring and alerting services

Data Replication

Replicate data to external systems by pushing change events via webhooks

Production-Ready

Reliable Webhook Delivery

Enterprise-grade outbound event delivery with guaranteed reliability

10M+
Webhooks delivered/month
99.9%
Delivery success rate
<200ms
Average delivery time
Smart
Exponential backoff retry

Quick Start

Get started with Hooks using our official SDKs

import { Fourbyfour } from '@fourbyfour/sdk';

const client = new Fourbyfour({
  apiKey: 'your-api-key',
  projectId: 'your-project-id'
});

// Register a webhook endpoint
const endpoint = await client.hooks.createEndpoint({
  url: 'https://api.partner.com/webhook',
  events: ['order.placed', 'order.shipped']
});

// Send a webhook
const { deliveryId } = await client.hooks.send({
  eventType: 'order.placed',
  payload: { orderId: '123', total: 99.99 }
});

// Check delivery status
const delivery = await client.hooks.getDelivery(deliveryId);

Install the SDK: npm install @fourbyfour/sdk

How It Works

Understanding Hooks's workflow

1

Event Trigger

Events are triggered from your application, streams, or worker jobs. Hooks queues them for delivery with endpoint routing based on event types and filters.

2

Payload Preparation

Payloads are transformed using templates and validation rules. Hooks generates HMAC signatures for security and adds metadata like timestamps and delivery IDs.

3

Delivery Attempt

Webhooks are sent via HTTP POST to registered endpoints. Hooks tracks response codes, latency, and errors. Success requires 2xx status codes within timeout limits.

4

Retry Management

Failed deliveries trigger exponential backoff retries with jitter. After max attempts, events are moved to dead letter queues for manual intervention or alerting.

Ready to use Hooks?

Add Hooks to your project and integrate with external systems