Fault-tolerant queueing
Incoming webhooks are queued for delivery. If FileMaker Server is unavailable, restarting, or briefly overloaded, no messages are lost - they’re held until your server is ready.
The Webhook Notifier is a fault-tolerant queueing service that lets FileMaker Server receive webhooks from external applications - with at-least-once delivery, up to 14-day retry, automatic batching, and automatic scaling for spike loads. Use it for Stripe, QuickBooks Online, Shopify, or anything that POSTs JSON or HTTP form data.
The Notifier sits between your external service and FileMaker Server. External services POST to its endpoint; the Notifier accepts, queues, and delivers to FileMaker Server - even if FileMaker Server is temporarily unavailable. JSON and HTTP form data are both supported, with optional basic authentication.
Choose the Notifier when the calling service doesn’t need an immediate confirmation that your FileMaker script ran - just an acknowledgment that the message was received. If the caller needs synchronous, real-time confirmation, see Webhook Direct.
The Notifier is designed for the realities of receiving webhooks at scale: spiky traffic, unreliable upstream, and the need to never lose a message.
Incoming webhooks are queued for delivery. If FileMaker Server is unavailable, restarting, or briefly overloaded, no messages are lost - they’re held until your server is ready.
Messages retry on a backoff schedule for up to 14 days until accepted by FileMaker Server. Transient failures don’t lose data; even an extended outage doesn’t lose data.
Messages are batched up to 50 per delivery by default, with smaller batches automatically flushed when wait time exceeds 60 seconds - balancing throughput and latency without configuration.
When upstream services dump a flood of webhooks, the Notifier automatically scales to handle the rate. Your FileMaker Server consumes them at its own pace.
Accepts JSON payloads and HTTP form data with optional basic authentication - covering essentially every webhook format external services emit.
Specialized variant with Intuit signature verification, so you can validate that a QuickBooks Online webhook is genuine before processing it.
The Notifier is service-agnostic - if it speaks JSON or HTTP form data, the Notifier can accept it.
The Notifier is built for the right workload - here’s exactly what it does and doesn’t guarantee.
One-time setup plus a small monthly fee. No usage tiers up to 1 billion API requests per month.
Existing Soliant.cloud clients can request the Notifier through the customer portal Service Desk. New clients should reach out so we can scope the deployment to your environment.
Every Soliant.cloud instance includes SnapBack. As your solution matures, add SideCar microservices designed specifically for FileMaker on AWS.
Built-in backups stored off-instance in Amazon S3 - 15-minute RPO, ransomware-isolated, included with every package.
Learn more →Spin WebDirect servers up and down with user demand. Cut multi-machine deployment costs by up to 80%.
Learn more →A fully functional copy of your FileMaker Server in the cloud - launch from the client portal in minutes.
Learn more →Schedule when your FileMaker instances run. Power down dev or after-hours environments; resume on schedule.
Learn more →Encrypted, walled-off snapshots to independent object storage - for compliance and risk-mitigation requirements.
Learn more →Offload container data from FileMaker to S3. Reduce file size, speed up loads, cut storage costs.
Learn more →Real-time synchronous webhook proxy - for when the calling service needs immediate confirmation.
Learn more →Reliably receive webhooks into FileMaker - with the queueing, retry, and scaling logic already solved.
Get a Quote