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customer.imported

Customer imported via legacy cutover.

When it fires

QuotaStack sends this when an import makes a customer, and only when the import asks for events. Set options.emit_webhooks: true to get it.

When it does not fire

QuotaStack sends nothing when emit_webhooks is left out. That is how every import starts. An import is quiet by default, so moving 10,000 customers cannot flood your endpoint.

data
FieldTypeMeaning
idrequiredstring (uuid)

QuotaStack-assigned customer UUID.

tenant_idrequiredstring (uuid)
environmentrequiredstring
  • live
  • sandbox

Which environment this resource lives in. Determined by the API key prefix used (qs_live_… → live, qs_test_… → sandbox).

external_idrequiredstring

Your identifier for this customer.

display_nameoptionalstring

Optional human label shown in dashboards.

overage_policyoptionalstring
  • block
  • allow
  • notify

Overrides the tenant default when set. block — refuse usage beyond spendable balance. allow — permit usage beyond balance; the spendable balance floors at zero and the excess is recorded as overage (see the consume overage field) for arrears billing. notify — currently identical to allow. No webhook is emitted yet; tracked as workspace#90.

low_balance_threshold_mcoptionalinteger (int64)0–∞

Optional per-customer override for the credit.low_balance webhook threshold (millicredits). null inherits the tenant default (tenant_configs.low_balance_threshold_mc, default 0 = off). 0 disables low_balance for this customer only. credit.exhausted is always evaluated and ignores this field.

metadatarequiredobject

Free-form key-value tags.

created_atrequiredstring (date-time)
updated_atrequiredstring (date-time)
Example payload
{
  "event_id": "0192f5a4-7c31-7b8e-9a2d-4f6c8e1b3a51",
  "event_type": "customer.imported",
  "tenant_id": "0192f5a4-7c31-7b8e-9a2d-4f6c8e1b3a01",
  "environment": "live",
  "customer_id": "0192f5a4-7c31-7b8e-9a2d-4f6c8e1b3a05",
  "external_customer_id": "user_42",
  "created_at": "2026-07-28T09:00:00Z",
  "idempotency_key": "import:user_42",
  "data": {
    "id": "0192f5a4-7c31-7b8e-9a2d-4f6c8e1b3a05",
    "external_id": "user_42",
    "display_name": "Ada Lovelace",
    "environment": "live"
  }
}

What to do

Match the customer to the record you hold, by external_id.

Which calls fire this

Delivery

QuotaStack guarantees at-least-once delivery. An event may be delivered more than once if your endpoint returns a non-2xx response, the connection fails, or the request exceeds the delivery timeout.

Delivery timeout: 5 seconds per attempt. If your endpoint does not return a 2xx within 5 seconds, the attempt is treated as a failure and retried. Not configurable today.

One webhook URL per tenant. Multiple URLs and per-event routing are not supported. Configure the URL via the tenant config endpoint.

Retry schedule

If delivery fails (non-2xx response, timeout, or network error), QuotaStack retries with exponential backoff:

AttemptDelay after previous
1Immediate
230 seconds
35 minutes
430 minutes
52 hours
68 hours
724 hours

After 7 failed attempts, the event is moved to a dead letter queue. Dead-lettered events are not lost — you can requeue them yourself, from the dashboard (Activity → Webhooks → Redeliver) or the API:

curl -X POST https://api.quotastack.io/v1/webhooks/events/{event_id}/redeliver \
  -H "X-API-Key: $QS_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: redeliver:{event_id}"

Redelivery resets the event to pending with a fresh retry schedule (7 new attempts). The next attempt signs with your current secret — useful when the event dead-lettered because of a secret rotation or an endpoint outage you have since fixed. Only dead_letter events can be redelivered; the call returns 409 for events in any other status.

Handling duplicates

Because delivery is at-least-once, your webhook handler should be idempotent. Use the webhook-id header for deduplication — if you have already processed an event with that ID, return 200 and skip processing.