Connect Stripe so LinkJolt records your sales

There are two ways to connect Stripe and you only need one. Both live in your dashboard under Integration Hub, the Stripe Checkout tab, Step 3 "Set Up Webhook". That step opens by telling you which state you are already in, so read it before changing anything.

Route 1: approve LinkJolt once on Stripe

Click "Set up with Stripe" and approve the request on Stripe's own site. That is the whole setup. There is no webhook endpoint to create and no signing secret to copy anywhere, so nothing goes stale if Stripe rolls a secret later. Sales, renewals and refunds then reach LinkJolt through that connection.

The same connection also lets LinkJolt create discount codes inside your Stripe account. You still choose the codes: add one on the Coupons page, or switch on Automatic coupon codes on a campaign so every affiliate you approve from then on gets their own. Revoking LinkJolt in your Stripe dashboard stops tracking and code creation together.

Only live payments are recorded this way. A test-mode payment on a connected account is ignored on purpose. Starting the connection needs the account owner, or a team member with payout permission.

Route 2: add the webhook endpoint yourself

Pick this if you would rather not grant access to your Stripe account. Open "Set it up manually instead" on the same step, then:

1. Press Copy URL to copy your webhook URL. It is specific to your brand, so copy it rather than typing out an example.
2. In Stripe, go to Developers, then Webhooks, then Add endpoint, and paste the URL.
3. Select the events. checkout.session.completed is required. For subscriptions also add invoice.payment_succeeded, customer.subscription.updated and customer.subscription.deleted. For refunds add charge.refunded and refund.created.
4. Save the endpoint. Stripe then shows a signing secret starting with whsec_. Copy it.
5. Back in LinkJolt, open Settings, then Payment Providers, and save that secret. Saving it needs the same permission as Route 1.

Add the endpoint in Live mode, and do not skip the signing secret. Stripe keeps separate webhook lists for live and test mode, switched from the toggle in its dashboard header, so an endpoint added only in test mode never sees a real payment. And without a matching secret saved in LinkJolt, every event fails its security check and no sales are recorded at all.

Connecting is only half of tracking

Stripe tells LinkJolt that a sale happened. Something still has to say who referred it. That means installing the LinkJolt tracking script and passing the stored referral into checkout, or giving affiliates coupon codes registered in LinkJolt. See "How do I set up affiliate tracking with Stripe?" for those steps.

Can I have both routes at once?

Yes, and it is safe. If you already have a working webhook and later connect your Stripe account, leave the old endpoint in place. A sale that arrives on both is recorded once, because an order id can only be used once per campaign.

If a saved secret starts failing its signature check, usually because it was rolled or the endpoint was edited in Stripe, Step 3 shows a warning and offers connecting as the one-click fix. If sales are missing for any other reason, work through "Why is an affiliate conversion not showing up?" in order.

If you installed LinkJolt from the Stripe App Marketplace, Step 3 does not appear at all, because those sales already reach LinkJolt without a webhook.