Payerworks writes and explains files; it sends nothing to a payer. Every file a route writes says transmitted: false, and is yours to send on your own connection. A test key is for invented data only, never a real patient.
What you need
- A test key, from the developers page. It is for invented data only.
- Node 18 or later, the JavaScript client payerworks.mjs, and sample-data.mjs, the invented patient and clinic every example uses, in one folder.
- Two environment variables:
PAYERWORKS_API_KEY(your key) andPAYERWORKS_BASE_URL(the base URL shown with your key).
The steps
- 1. Set your webhook with PUT /v1/account/webhook: an https address at a public hostname. The answer shows its signing secret once; store it.
- 2. Run the claims sandbox. Each answer is recorded as an event on your account and posted to your webhook: the 999, each claim’s 277CA, and each check’s 835.
- 3. On your server, check each delivery’s signature over the raw body before you parse it (
readDeliveryin the example), and skip a webhook-id you have already handled: a delivery may arrive more than once. - 4. List what was recorded with GET /v1/events, read one with GET /v1/events/{id}, and send one again with POST /v1/events/{id}/redeliver. Events are kept for 30 days.
The code
events.mjs runs every step below against the API with a test key. It needs payerworks.mjs and sample-data.mjs beside it.
// Payerworks example: events, signed, listed and sent again. Docs: https://payerworks.com/docs/events
//
// Run it with Node 18 or later, with the JavaScript client (https://payerworks.com/sdk/payerworks.mjs)
// and sample-data.mjs beside this file:
// PAYERWORKS_API_KEY=pw_test_... PAYERWORKS_BASE_URL=<the base URL shown with your key> node events.mjs
// A test key and invented data only. Payerworks sends nothing to a payer: every file it writes is yours.
import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
import { Payerworks, PayerworksError, verifyStandardWebhook } from './payerworks.mjs';
import { SENDER_ID, claimEndingIn, refusalOf } from './sample-data.mjs';
/**
* On YOUR server, for each delivery: check the signature over the raw body, before you parse it.
* `secret` is the whsec_ secret PUT /v1/account/webhook answered once; `headers` the request's headers.
* A delivery may arrive more than once: skip a webhook-id you have handled.
* @param {string} secret @param {Record<string, string>} headers @param {string} rawBody
*/
export function readDelivery(secret, headers, rawBody, seen = new Set()) {
if (!verifyStandardWebhook(secret, headers, rawBody)) return { ok: false, reason: 'signature' };
const id = headers['webhook-id'];
if (seen.has(id)) return { ok: true, duplicate: true };
seen.add(id);
return { ok: true, event: JSON.parse(rawBody) };
}
/** @param {Payerworks} pw */
export async function run(pw) {
// 1. Your webhook: an https address of yours. The signing secret is shown once: store it.
const hook = await pw.putAccountWebhook({ url: 'https://hooks.example.com/payerworks' });
// 2. A sandbox run makes events: the 999, each claim's 277CA, and each check's 835.
const sandbox = await pw.postSandboxClaims({ sender_id: SENDER_ID, claims: [claimEndingIn('')] });
// 3. Every event is kept for 30 days: list them, read one, and send one again.
const listed = await pw.getEvents({ query: { limit: 10 } });
const one = await pw.getEventsById(listed.data[0].id);
const again = await pw.postEventsByIdRedeliver(one.id);
// 4. The failure path: an id this key never had.
const refused = await refusalOf(() => pw.getEventsById(`evt_${'0'.repeat(24)}`), { PayerworksError });
return {
secret_starts: hook.secret.slice(0, 6),
made: sandbox.events.map((e) => e.type),
listed: listed.data.length,
redelivered: Boolean(again),
refused,
};
}
// Run as a script: node <this file>, with PAYERWORKS_API_KEY and PAYERWORKS_BASE_URL set.
if (process.argv[1] && import.meta.url === pathToFileURL(process.argv[1]).href) {
console.log(JSON.stringify(await run(new Payerworks()), null, 2));
}
{
"secret_starts": "whsec_",
"made": [
"sandbox.file.acknowledged",
"sandbox.claim.acknowledged",
"sandbox.remittance.received"
],
"listed": 3,
"redelivered": true,
"refused": {
"status": 404,
"code": "event_not_found",
"request_id": "req_6"
}
}What you should see
madelists the three event types one paid claim makes;refusedis an event id the key never had.
Next
- Add more destinations, each with its own event types: Events and webhooks.