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Fix webhook handling so in-progress transfers stop showing as failed

You’re the solutions / forward deployed engineer. Your team is in the room. Printed Oct 19, 2026.

The customer’s payout console treats a progressing transfer as a failed one.

Supplier certainty depends on fast status updates, while the integration must preserve the transfer lifecycle Bridge reports.

Who you’d be doing this for

“I spent half my morning explaining that those payouts weren’t actually failed, just still moving.”

Kukua Ogundimu · Payments Operations Manager

Runs the daily queue for supplier payouts at a global platform using Bridge.

What is at stake

Supplier operations staff are reopening transfers that later complete because their console labels an intermediate state as failed. You have to weigh a fast integration correction against the customer’s need to keep scheduled payouts running.

Why it isn’t already fixed

Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.

  • supplier clarity vs. transfer lifecycle fidelity
  • fast release vs. reviewed integration change
  • fewer investigations vs. visible real exceptions

Why Stripe

Bridge transfer lifecycles become the customer’s supplier experience when payout status is surfaced through their own operations console.

Written with these in mind

customer-facing systems engineerpayments solutions architectforward deployed integration specialist

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