--- title: "Send Concise Webhook Payload" description: "While creating or updating a webhook, Contentstack allows you to send a concise JSON payload to the specified URL whenever the selected event occurs." url: "https://www.contentstack.com/docs/headless-cms/send-concise-webhook-payload" product: "Contentstack" doc_type: "guide" audience: - developers - admins version: "current" last_updated: "2026-07-22" --- # Send Concise Webhook Payload While creating or updating a [webhook](/docs/headless-cms/about-webhooks), Contentstack allows you to send a concise JSON payload to the specified URL whenever the selected event occurs. To send a concise webhook payload, log in to [Contentstack](https://www.contentstack.com/login), go to your [stack](/docs/headless-cms/about-stack), and perform the following steps: 1. Click the “Settings” icon (press “S”) on the left navigation panel, and select **Webhooks** (press “alt + W” for Windows OS, and “option + W” for Mac OS). You will notice a list of existing webhooks. 2. Select the webhook for which you want to enable the concise JSON payload. 3. On the webhook page, toggle the **Send Concise Payload** switch to enable the webhook to return a concise JSON payload and click **Save**.![Send Concise Webhook Payload\_1.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt2d43f51baca745a8/blt00774b53ddb765aa/66a8a5c6610c4172b64201fb/Send_Concise_Webhook_Payload_1.png) 4. To view the payload sent by a webhook, refer to the [View Webhook Logs](https://www.contentstack.com/docs/headless-cms/view-webhook-logs) document. ## Examples Here's an example of a **comprehensive JSON payload** that a webhook sends in the response body when trying to update an existing entry in a content type. ``` { "url":"https://localhost:8000", "method":"POST", "headers":{ "Content-Type":"application/json", "User-Agent":"Contentstack", "X-Contentstack-Request-Signature":"1ff17c4025603aa04150241e400439cf18a57d02", "custom":"testing", "Authorization":"Basic dGVzdDp0ZXN0aW5n" }, "body":{ "module":"entry", "api_key":"blt38776c9acaae33b3", "data":{ "entry":{ "title":"Samle Entry", "body":"

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", "tags":[ "footer", "header", "asd", "new", "one" ], "locale":"en-us", "uid":"blt36952eb1aa651010", "created_by":"blt1e6dead9f06f1560", "updated_by":"blt6563a9b067fc1bc9", "created_at":"2019-02-15T06:01:22.976Z", "updated_at":"2020-10-14T14:51:16.850Z", "ACL":{ }, "_version":8, "_in_progress":false, "reference":[ { "uid":"blt67670c9c4c111b0d", "_content_type_uid":"eloqua" }, { "uid":"blt89e57ca70a1ce997", "_content_type_uid":"header" }, { "uid":"blt36952eb1aa651010", "_content_type_uid":"footer" } ], "oneref":[ ], "file":{ "uid":"blt98ad72d1484d6cc7", "created_at":"2020-02-27T12:23:46.359Z", "updated_at":"2020-02-27T12:23:46.359Z", "created_by":"blt42e55757d70d5f81026a2b9f", "updated_by":"blt42e55757d70d5f81026a2b9f", "content_type":"image/png", "file_size":"85734", "tags":[ ], "filename":"Developer's Guide.png", "url":"https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt38776c9acaae33b3/blt98ad72d1484d6cc7/5e57b4d209113f0d3a8525bf/download", "ACL":[ ], "is_dir":false, "parent_uid":null, "_version":1, "title":"Developer's Guide.png" } }, "content_type":{ "created_at":"2019-02-15T06:01:07.706Z", "created_by":"blt1e6dead9f06f1560", "updated_at":"2020-09-16T16:54:58.986Z", "updated_by":"blt6563a9b067fc1bc9", "title":"Footer", "uid":"footer", "description":"", "schema":[ { "display_name":"Title", "uid":"title", "data_type":"text", "mandatory":true, "unique":true, "field_metadata":{ "_default":true }, "multiple":false, "non_localizable":false, "indexed":false, "inbuilt_model":false }, { "data_type":"text", "display_name":"Body", "uid":"body", "field_metadata":{ "allow_rich_text":true, "description":"", "multiline":false, "rich_text_type":"advanced", "options":[ ], "version":1 }, "multiple":false, "mandatory":false, "unique":false, "non_localizable":false, "indexed":false, "inbuilt_model":false }, { "data_type":"reference", "display_name":"Reference", "reference_to":[ "eloqua", "footer", "header" ], "field_metadata":{ "ref_multiple":true, "ref_multiple_content_types":true }, "uid":"reference", "multiple":false, "mandatory":false, "unique":false, "non_localizable":false, "indexed":false, "inbuilt_model":false }, { "data_type":"reference", "display_name":"oneref", "reference_to":"header", "field_metadata":{ "ref_multiple":false }, "uid":"oneref", "multiple":false, "mandatory":false, "unique":false, "non_localizable":false, "indexed":false, "inbuilt_model":false }, { "data_type":"file", "display_name":"File", "uid":"file", "extensions":[ ], "field_metadata":{ "description":"", "rich_text_type":"standard" }, "multiple":false, "mandatory":false, "unique":false, "indexed":false, "inbuilt_model":false, "non_localizable":false } ], "options":{ "is_page":false, "singleton":true, "title":"title", "sub_title":[ ] } } }, "event":"update", "triggered_at":"2020-10-14T14:51:37.045Z" }} ``` Here's an example of a **concise JSON payload** that a webhook sends in the response body when trying to update an existing entry in a content type: ``` { "url":"https://localhost:8000", "method":"POST", "headers":{ "Content-Type":"application/json", "User-Agent":"Contentstack", "X-Contentstack-Request-Signature":"d33bec09607f6aa70d64e076a835bb6d1ff32e8c", "custom":"testing", "Authorization":"Basic dGVzdDp0ZXN0aW5n" }, "body":{ "module":"entry", "api_key":"blt38776c9acaae33b3", "event":"update", "triggered_at":"2020-10-14T14:40:54.157Z", "data":{ "entry":{ "uid":"blt36952eb1aa651010", "title":"Samle Entry", "locale":"en-us", "_version":7 }, "content_type":{ "uid":"footer", "title":"Footer" } } }} ``` ## API Reference To send concise webhook payload while creating or updating a webhook via API, refer to the following API requests: * [Create a webhook](/docs/developers/apis/content-management-api/webhooks#create-a-webhook) * [Update webhook](/docs/developers/apis/content-management-api/webhooks#update-webhook)