How to Recover Missed LINE MINI App Purchase Webhooks Using a 7-Day History API

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LINE MINI App purchases follow a multi-step flow where a successful reservation does not confirm payment — only a purchaseComplete webhook serves as the definitive proof of a completed transaction. When webhooks are missed due to server downtime, deployment issues, or processing failures, LINE's event history API allows developers to retrieve purchase events from the past seven days. The API supports pagination via a cursor and can be filtered by delivery status, though omitting the status filter is recommended when failures occurred after the endpoint accepted the request. Developers must store key reservation data — including the orderId, x-line-request-id header, and entitlement state — to enable accurate reconciliation. Idempotency checks keyed by orderId are essential to ensure that digital items or entitlements are granted exactly once during recovery.

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