General Webhooks

General Webhooks provide a streamlined way to receive event notifications about various Mews entities. Each Webhook message corresponds to a specific enterprise integration, identifiable via the EnterpriseId and IntegrationId fields in the request body. These identifiers allow you to track events across all enterprises or properties connected to your integration.

Key features

  • Unified event delivery – Each message encapsulates all events related to the entities you’ve subscribed to that occur simultaneously. For example, subscribing to Service Order events (which include reservations as a subtype) may result in a Webhook containing multiple ServiceOrderUpdated events, each corresponding to a different reservation.

  • Event structure – Each event within a message specifies the event type and includes the unique identifier of the associated entity, e.g. CustomerAdded events include a CustomerId. To retrieve detailed information about an entity, use the relevant API Operation along with the entity’s unique identifier. For instance, for a CustomerAdded event, call Get all customers with the provided CustomerId.

  • Efficient integration - Receive notifications for all subscribed enterprises or properties in a single payload, minimizing the need for multiple requests or real-time polling. Leverage EnterpriseId and IntegrationId to manage and filter event data effectively.

Implementation

To implement General Webhooks:

  1. Define the entities and event types you are interested in via your Webhook subscription.

  2. Use EnterpriseId and IntegrationId to differentiate messages across multiple enterprises or properties.

  3. Fetch additional details about entities as needed by using the appropriate API Operations.

Supported events

Entity

Event

Description

Service Order

ServiceOrderUpdated

Event triggered when a service order is updated

Resource

ResourceUpdated

Event triggered when a resource is updated

Message

MessageAdded

Event triggered when a new message is added

Resource block

ResourceBlockUpdated

Event triggered when a resource block is updated

Customer

CustomerAdded

Event triggered when a customer is added

Customer

CustomerUpdated

Event triggered when a customer is updated

Terminology

A Service Order is an order made against a Service. A Service Order made against a Bookable Service is called a Reservation. In fact only Reservations are currently supported, however this may be extended in future. A Resource can be a bookable space, an object or even the services of a person. Resource normally implies a space, but again this may be extended in future. For a full description of all the terms used, see the Mews Glossary for Open API users.

Added vs Updated events

In the context of General Webhooks, the terms Added and Updated describe different types of changes to an entity:

  • Updated – This indicates any change to an entity, including modifications to its fields or properties; it also encompasses the creation of a new entity, as creating an entity is considered a change to its lifecycle state.

  • Added – This specifically refers to the initial creation of an entity at the start of its lifecycle; it represents a subset of Updated events, as every Added event is inherently also an Updated event.

Important considerations

When you subscribe to events for entities like Customers, a newly created entity generates both a CustomerAdded event and a CustomerUpdated event. These events will have the same CustomerId and will often appear within the same Webhook message. To avoid redundant API calls, ensure that you process each entity only once. For example, when you receive both a CustomerAdded and a CustomerUpdated event for the same CustomerId, call Get all customers only once to retrieve the entity details.

Request body

{
    "EnterpriseId": "851df8c8-90f2-4c4a-8e01-a4fc46b25178",
    "IntegrationId": "c8bee838-7fb1-4f4e-8fac-ac87008b2f90",
    "Events": [
        {
            "Discriminator": "ServiceOrderUpdated",
            "Value": {
                "Id": "bfee2c44-1f84-4326-a862-5289598f6e2d"
            }
        },
        {
            "Discriminator": "ResourceUpdated",
            "Value": {
                "Id": "7cccbdc6-73cf-4cd4-8056-6fd00f4d9699"
            }
        },
        {
            "Discriminator": "MessageAdded",
            "Value": {
                "Id": "4bfe4675-98a9-4428-9ea9-ae5300dbaa93"
            }
        },
        {
            "Discriminator": "CustomerAdded",
            "Value": {
                "Id": "c2f1d888-232e-49eb-87ac-5f75363af13b"
            }
        },
        {
            "Discriminator": "CustomerUpdated",
            "Value": {
                "Id": "b3ce0fd7-a715-4bfc-969e-ef7a4822963c"
            }
        }
    ]
}
Property
Type
Contract
Description

EnterpriseId

string

required

IntegrationId

string

required

Events

required

The set of events that have occurred.

Event

Property
Type
Contract
Description

Discriminator

required

The type of event.

Value

object

required

Event discriminator

Discriminator
Description
Value
Fetch operation

ServiceOrderUpdated

ResourceUpdated

MessageAdded

ResourceBlockUpdated

CustomerAdded

CustomerUpdated

Entity updated data

Property
Type
Contract
Description

Id

string

required

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