Just updated two invoices (marked them as ‘sent’ from ‘draft’). I’d expect these to trigger an ‘InvoicesUpdated’ webhook, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.
Is this my mis-understanding, or is this a bug?
I just tried to do this myself on a test account and the hook was created when “marking as sent”.
Question: Did you mark as sent from the individual invoice preview or the main invoice list?
I actually sent it by email from the invoice preview screen
Did you enable Webhooks in the same session or have you had this enabled for some time? I also tried sending by email from my test account and it queued the webhook.
I think if you switch on Webhooks you need to log out and back again before they start firing.
I’ve had it enabled for some time.
3 Invoices were created as draft, webhook sent fine. Then, 2 were marked as sent, and nothing happened.
One remains in draft only to see if it works afterwards.
Just sent invoice 0372 by email - no webhook has been queued
I’ve escalated this to be looked at in more detail, I will let you know as soon as we’ve had a chance to look.
The events on my test account earlier were for invoices_created not sent.
Having checked the spec for the Webhooks Implementation we never supported hooks on invoice/estimate sent.
This is why no hooks are being fired for this action. I can definitely suggest this as a new feature when we next extend Webhooks. I’ve switched to a feature request for now.
If I’m honest, I was expecting more of an “InvoicesUpdated” (mainly because the status has been updated), more than a dedicated function.
I think it would be useful though!
Let me consider this further. I’m inclined to think it may be more useful to have a unique hook ID for this? Then users can specifically target this event.
It would be quite easy I believe to implement this hook, for now I’ve logged it as a feature request.
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