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Settings: alerts and getting paid

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Your alert email, and connecting your own Stripe account for ticket and shop sales.

Settings — email alerts and the Stripe connection
Settings — email alerts and the Stripe connection

Email alerts (all plans)

Enter the address that should be pinged when a lead arrives or a ticket sells. A test email goes out immediately; confirm it and you're set.

Getting paid — your Stripe account (Pro)

Ticket and shop money goes straight into your own Stripe account; Stooplight never touches it. Connecting takes about ten minutes, once, and needs two things from Stripe: a secret key and a webhook signing secret. Both get pasted into the Settings tab's "Getting paid" card, which shows the exact webhook address to use. Here's where to find them in Stripe — the screenshots below are the phone view at dashboard.stripe.com.

Part 1: your secret key

  1. Create a free account at stripe.com, or sign in at dashboard.stripe.com.
  2. Tap the ☰ menu at the top left, then the ⚙ settings gear at the top of the menu.
  3. Under Personal settings, tap Developers, then Manage API keys.
  4. Under Standard keys, tap Create secret key — not "Create restricted key," which makes a key that won't work here.
  5. Copy the key (it starts with sk_live_) right away — Stripe only shows it once — and paste it into the "Getting paid" card. It's checked with Stripe on the spot: you'll see "Connected to your business name."
The Stripe dashboard with an arrow at the menu button, top left
1. The ☰ menu, top left
Stripe's menu with an arrow at the settings gear at the top
2. The ⚙ gear at the top of the menu
Stripe's settings page with an arrow at Developers under Personal settings
3. Developers, under Personal settings
The Developers page with an arrow at the Manage API keys link
4. Manage API keys
The Standard keys card with the Create secret key button
5. Standard keys → Create secret key — copy it immediately; it's shown only once

Part 2: the webhook

The webhook is how Stripe tells your site "this payment succeeded" so tickets and receipts go out. It lives somewhere new in Stripe's layout:

  1. Along the very bottom of the Stripe dashboard there's a thin dark developer bar called Workbench. Tap the ⌃ arrow at its right end to open it.
  2. Tap the Webhooks tab — you'll see "Event destinations."
  3. Tap + Add destination. Select the event checkout.session.completed, choose Webhook endpoint as the destination, and paste the webhook URL shown on your "Getting paid" card (it looks like https://yoursite.netlify.app/api/stripe-webhook).
  4. Open the destination you just created and copy its Signing secret (starts with whsec_) — paste that into the "Getting paid" card too, and you're done. Once, forever.
The bottom of the Stripe dashboard with an arrow at the Workbench open arrow, bottom right
The Workbench bar — tap the ⌃ at the bottom right
The Workbench Webhooks tab showing Event destinations and the Add destination button
Webhooks tab → + Add destination

Stripe rearranges its dashboard now and then — if a label has drifted from these screenshots, the search at the top of Stripe's dashboard finds "API keys" and "Webhooks" by name, and support can walk you through it.

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