The SaaS backend where webhooks, data, and delivery live together

Most SaaS apps spend month one stitching webhook infra, a queue, a database, search, and a notifications service. Centrali ships them as one SDK — ingest events, store them as data, send your own.

Building SaaS backends is harder than it should be

Every modern SaaS ingests third-party webhooks (Stripe, GitHub, partner connectors), stores them alongside its own data, and emits its own outbound signals. Doing that with five separate services means weeks of glue code before the product itself starts.

Webhook plumbing on day one

You write signature verification, retry logic, and dead-letter queues for every inbound webhook source. Then again for every outbound one your customers consume.

Events scattered across services

Stripe events sit in a queue, your app data sits in Postgres, search sits in Algolia. Joining them takes a warehouse or a lot of hand-rolled syncing.

Outbound delivery is its own product

Sending notifications, outbound callbacks, or customer-subscribed webhooks needs its own retry, signing, and observability layer — usually Svix or a homegrown copy.

Glue code instead of features

Your team spends the first sprint wiring services together. Your competitor ships a product.

Ingest → store → send, in one SDK

Centrali gives every SaaS backend the same spine. Inbound events land as records, your app data sits next to them, search runs across both, and outbound webhooks and notifications go through the same SDK that received the inbound ones.

Webhook ingestion

HTTP triggers verify Stripe, GitHub, and partner webhooks at the edge. Verified payloads land as records — no separate webhook service.

Events stored as queryable data

Inbound events, your app state, and audit records all live in the same collections. One query reaches across them — no warehouse, no sync jobs.

Outbound webhooks and notifications

Send customer-subscribed webhooks, transactional email, and in-app signals from the same SDK that received the inbound events. HMAC signing, retry, and delivery state included.

Functions for business logic

Write TypeScript functions triggered by data changes, schedules, or HTTP. Reserve stock, score leads, fan out events — without managing a queue or cron service.

Search across events and app data

Full-text search over orders, webhook events, customers, and audit logs in one call. No separate search service to wire up.

Auth and orgs out of the box

Plug Clerk, Auth0, Keycloak, or any OIDC provider in. Organizations, roles, and per-resource permissions are primitives, not custom code.

Inbound webhook in, outbound notification out — one SDK

Verify a Stripe webhook at the trigger layer, store the event as a record, then notify the customer through the same SDK.

typescript
// Function wired to an HTTP trigger.
// Signature verification is configured on the trigger,
// so invalid requests never reach this code.
async function run() {
  const event = executionParams.payload;


  // Store the event next to your app data
  await api.createRecord('stripe-events', {
    eventId: event.id,
    eventType: event.type,
    customerId: event.data.object.customer,
    raw: event,
  });


  // Send an outbound webhook to the customer's endpoint
  if (event.type === 'invoice.payment_failed') {
    const customer = await api.fetchRecord(event.data.object.customer);
    if (customer.data.webhookUrl) {
      await api.httpPost(customer.data.webhookUrl, {
        event: 'invoice.payment_failed',
        invoiceId: event.data.object.id,
      });
    }
  }
}

Real-world use cases

See how teams are building with Centrali

Stripe-powered billing tools

Ingest charges, subscriptions, and invoices; reconcile against your own orders; surface anomalies in a dashboard.

Billing reconciliation

Feedback and support SaaS

Receive webhooks from Slack, Linear, GitHub; route to teams; emit outbound webhooks back to customer systems.

Customer feedback hubs

Monitoring and alerting SaaS

Ingest probe results or third-party alerts; run incident state machines; deliver notifications across email, SMS, and customer webhooks.

Uptime / status platforms

Integration hubs

Sit between two ecosystems — receive on one side, transform, send on the other. Your customers configure subscriptions in your dashboard.

Embedded webhook portals

Build your SaaS on the ingest → store → send spine

One SDK for webhooks in, data, and webhooks out. No credit card required.