Concepts
Payload
The payload is the actual packet of information one system sends to another: the names, amounts, and dates, usually written in a plain text format that machines read easily. When someone says they are looking at a webhook, meaning the automatic message one app fires off to another the moment something happens, what they are really reading is its payload.
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