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How do I get a notification when I make a sale?

Point your store's webhook at Lert. When Stripe, Shopify, or your own checkout fires a sale event, send one HTTP POST to your Lert link and your phone buzzes with the amount โ€” even locked in your pocket. No account, no API keys, no SDK.

Refreshing your dashboard to see if you made money is a bad way to run a store. The better way is to let the sale come to you: every payment platform can already call a webhook, and Lert turns that webhook into a buzz on your phone. Because your Lert link is the credential, there's no key to manage and nothing to install on the server.

Set it up in under 30 seconds

  1. Download the app. Open it once โ€” there's no account to create. Your private link is waiting on screen.
  2. Copy your link. One tap copies https://lert.dev/p/your-id.
  3. Wire it into your sale handler. In Stripe or Shopify, add a webhook that POSTs to your link; or drop it into the code that runs after checkout.

The next time money lands, your phone buzzes with the order total.

Example: a Stripe/Shopify webhook in Node

node
app.post("/webhook", async (req, res) => {
  const order = req.body.data.object;      // the completed sale
  await fetch("https://lert.dev/p/your-id", {
    method: "POST",
    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      title: "New sale ๐ŸŽ‰",
      body:  `$${(order.amount_total / 100).toFixed(2)} just came in`,
      tag:   "sales"
    })
  });
  res.sendStatus(200);
});

That's the whole thing โ€” no auth token, no SDK. Not a coder? Route the webhook through Zapier instead and paste your link into a "Webhooks by Zapier" step.

Tip: use a tag like "sales" so repeat notifications stack together on your lock screen instead of piling up. Add the daily total in the body and you've got a running scoreboard in your pocket.

Related setups

See the new-sale notifications use case and the webhook notifications guide for more. It's free for one channel and 50 notifications a day; Lert Pro is $2.99/month for unlimited. Full details in the docs.

Feel every sale land.

Download Lert, copy your link, point your webhook at it. Your phone buzzes on every order.

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