Get a stable HTTPS URL on your own domain that Stripe can reach. No random subdomains. No re-pasting URLs into the Stripe dashboard every morning.
Webhook delivery is server-to-server. Stripe’s infrastructure has to make an HTTPS request to you, which means your local localhost:4242 can’t receive anything until something exposes it to the public internet.
Most free tunneling tools give you a random URL each time you start them. Every morning you re-paste a new URL into the Stripe dashboard, retest, and hope nothing else broke. The Stripe CLI has its own forwarding mode but only works while the CLI is open.
Stripe rejects webhook endpoints that aren’t HTTPS. Setting up a self-signed cert and a reverse proxy on your laptop is overkill. tunnelto handles TLS automatically. HTTPS works out of the box.
If your QA team or another developer needs to send test events at your branch, you both want a URL that doesn’t change. With a custom domain on tunnelto, that URL is yours and stays the same across reconnects, restarts, and reboots.
Run tunnelto add hooks.acme.dev 4242 from your terminal. tunnelto verifies DNS and issues a certificate automatically.
In the Stripe dashboard, add a webhook endpoint pointing to https://hooks.acme.dev/webhook. Pick the events you want.
Trigger test events from the Stripe dashboard or CLI. They’re delivered to your local server in real time. Set breakpoints, add logs, debug freely.
Test checkout.session.completed, invoice.paid, subscription lifecycle, and Stripe Connect events end-to-end on localhost.
Receive push, pull request, workflow, and issue events. Build webhook-driven CI checks, bots, and automations against your local code.
Test slash commands, interactive components, and Events API payloads from Slack workspaces straight to your dev machine.
Receive SMS and voice webhooks (TwiML) on localhost without ever deploying. Iterate on call flows in real time.
Test app webhooks for orders, products, and customers against your local app server with a stable HTTPS URL Shopify will accept.
If a service can deliver an HTTPS webhook, tunnelto can route it to your local server. Custom integrations welcome.
Not directly. Stripe needs a public HTTPS URL it can reach from the internet. tunnelto gives you a public HTTPS URL on your own domain that forwards traffic to your local server, so Stripe can deliver webhook events straight to your machine.
Stripe stores the webhook endpoint URL in your dashboard. If your tunnel URL changes every reconnect (as it does with most free localhost tunnels), you have to update the Stripe dashboard every time. With tunnelto’s free custom domain, the URL stays the same forever. Configure once, use forever.
Yes. Any service that delivers HTTPS webhooks works the same way: paste your tunnelto URL into their webhook configuration and the events will be delivered to your local server. We’ve tested with Stripe, GitHub, Slack, Twilio, Shopify, Discord, Linear, and many more.
Use Stripe’s SDK exactly as you would in production: read the Stripe-Signature header, call stripe.webhooks.constructEvent() with the raw body and your webhook secret. tunnelto forwards request bodies and headers unchanged, so signature verification works identically to production.
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