The moment it happens

Get a message for every new sale

Each successful payment reaches you with the customer, amount and what they bought.

Runs: The moment it happens
Apps: Stripe
AI: Not needed
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: whenever someone pays me on Stripe, post the customer, amount and product to #sales in Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A small shop owner or a founder who sells a course wants to know when money arrives, not read about it in a report two weeks later. Stripe sends its own receipt email to the customer, but the seller gets nothing useful in real time, and checking the dashboard a dozen times a day is a habit that eats the afternoon. A launch day with no live feedback feels like flying blind.

Whenever Stripe confirms a successful payment, ClickRuntime verifies the webhook signature, expands the line items so it knows exactly what was bought, and posts a message to your Slack channel with the product names, quantity and amount. You hear the ping the moment a sale lands, along with what the customer picked.

It is popular with creators on launch day, small stores where each order matters, and teams that celebrate wins together in a shared channel.

What you get out of it

Launch days become visible in real time
Watching sales appear one by one tells you immediately whether a campaign email or a social post is working. You can double down on what converts while the audience is still paying attention, instead of reading the result the next morning.
The team shares every win
A message per purchase in a shared channel lets support, marketing and the founder see activity together. It lifts morale during slow quarters and creates a natural moment to say thanks to whoever drove the sale.
Fulfilment can start without logging in
Because the message lists the actual line items, whoever ships or grants access sees what was bought straight away. Orders that need a manual step, such as a custom product, do not wait until someone checks Stripe.
Odd purchases get noticed early
An unusually large order or a flurry of small ones from one customer stands out in a live feed. You can review a possible fraud pattern or a pricing mistake while the payments are still easy to reverse.
Fewer dashboard checks during the day
Instead of refreshing Stripe to see whether anything came in, you wait for the notification. That gives back time and attention, and still keeps you informed about money coming into the business.

How it works

What happens, step by step

The moment a checkout or payment succeeds in Stripe, ClickRuntime is told about it.
It checks that the message really came from Stripe, then reads what was bought.
A message is posted to your Slack channel with the customer, amount and products, like "1× Pro plan (annual)".

Before it runs live

Connect Stripe
Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings

What you get

RunsThe moment it happens

Get a message for every new salejust nowSucceeded

Slack · #sales:moneybag: jo@acme.example paid 149.00 USD for 1× Pro plan (annual)

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Stripe steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

new_payment_notification.pyexample

import stripe
from clickruntime import on_event, credentials, notify, verify

@on_event
def handle(event):
    if not verify.stripe(event.body, event.header("Stripe-Signature"), credentials.secret("STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET")):
        return {"ignored": "bad signature"}
    if event.json["type"] != "checkout.session.completed":
        return {"ignored": event.json["type"]}
    session = event.json["data"]["object"]
    stripe.api_key = credentials.secret("STRIPE_API_KEY")
    items = stripe.checkout.Session.list_line_items(session["id"], limit=10)
    products = ", ".join(f"{i.quantity}× {i.description}" for i in items.data)
    who = (session.get("customer_details") or {}).get("email") or "unknown"
    notify.slack(f":moneybag: {who} paid {session['amount_total'] / 100:,.2f} {session['currency'].upper()} for {products}",
                 channel="#sales")
    return {"session": session["id"]}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it notify for subscription renewals as well as one-time purchases?

It listens for successful payments, so renewals appear too when Stripe confirms the charge. If you only want first-time purchases, add a condition on the billing reason and recurring invoices are skipped, which keeps the channel quieter on busy subscription days.

Why does it expand the line items?

A basic payment event only contains an amount and a customer. Expanding the line items retrieves the product names and quantities, so the Slack message says three tickets and one workshop instead of just 240 dollars, which is far more useful to the people reading it.

Can the message hide the customer's name or email?

Yes. You decide which fields appear. Some teams show only the product and amount in a public channel and keep names out. Describe the layout you prefer to your AI assistant and it will be shown for approval before the next payment arrives.

What permissions does it need?

read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run for each event the app sends.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

The moment it happens