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Watchlists tell you when something changes on the companies, persons, addresses, properties and vehicles you monitor. The full watchlist API, with members, subscriptions, event types and the event list, is described in Watchlists.

Concepts

Only webhooks receive the event data itself. Email and SMS carry a summary for a person to read.

Creating a webhook notification

Add a notification with destinationType 0 and your HTTPS endpoint as destination:
cURL
A webhook notification is active right away. An email notification is activated when the recipient clicks the link in a confirmation email. See Notifications for listing and deleting them.

Delivery

New events are sent as a POST with a JSON array in the body, one element per event, with the user agent Ormeo Webhook Service. Any 2xx answer counts as delivered; otherwise the delivery is retried, up to three times.

Testing a webhook

Send a sample event to check that your endpoint handles the payload. It goes through the same delivery as real events, and the response shows what was sent:
cURL
The sample is built from the watchlist’s first member, with an event type that fits the member, e.g. companyAddress for a company or residentMovedIn for an address. It carries "watchListMemberSubType": "test" and no teamWatchListMemberEventId, so you can tell it from a real event. See test notification.

Payload

Webhook payload
Fields without a value are left out of the payload.