How to Send Webhook Notifications to Microsoft Teams

Published Feb 21 20269 min read
Microsoft Teams webhook notifications setup with Webhookify

Microsoft Teams is the collaboration platform of choice for millions of enterprise organizations worldwide. If your company runs on Microsoft 365, Teams is where your team communicates, collaborates, and makes decisions throughout the workday. Delivering webhook notifications directly to Teams means your engineering, operations, and business teams see critical events -- Stripe payments, GitHub deployments, Shopify orders, and more -- in the same platform where they are already working, without switching context or monitoring separate dashboards.

Webhookify bridges any webhook source to Microsoft Teams using Teams' incoming webhook connector and adaptive card formatting. Every webhook event is transformed into a professionally formatted Teams message with AI-generated summaries that anyone on your team can understand. This guide walks you through the setup process, from creating the Teams connector to receiving your first real-time adaptive card notification.

Why Microsoft Teams for Webhook Notifications?

For organizations already invested in the Microsoft ecosystem, Teams offers unique advantages as a webhook notification channel.

  • Enterprise Standard: Microsoft Teams is the default communication tool in most large organizations. Sending webhook alerts to Teams means you are working within your company's existing security, compliance, and communication infrastructure. No need to justify adopting a new tool.

  • Adaptive Card Formatting: Teams supports adaptive cards -- rich, interactive message formats with structured layouts, colors, buttons, and sections. Webhookify sends webhook notifications as adaptive cards, making alerts visually distinct and easy to parse at a glance.

  • Channel and Team Organization: Teams mirrors your organizational structure with teams and channels. Map webhook alert categories to specific channels: a "Finance" channel for payment events, a "DevOps" channel for deployment events, an "IT Operations" channel for infrastructure alerts.

  • Microsoft 365 Integration: Teams notifications live alongside your Outlook calendar, SharePoint documents, Planner tasks, and Power Automate workflows. When a webhook alert requires action, you can create a task, schedule a meeting, or trigger an automation without leaving the Microsoft ecosystem.

  • Security and Compliance: Microsoft Teams inherits the enterprise-grade security of Microsoft 365, including data encryption, compliance certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR), data loss prevention policies, and audit logging. Sensitive webhook data stays within your organization's security perimeter.

  • Mobile and Desktop Presence: Teams runs on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux, and the web. Webhook notifications follow your team members across all their devices, with platform-native push notifications on mobile.

Step-by-Step Setup Guide

1

Create a Webhookify Account and Endpoint

Visit webhookify.app and create a free account. In the dashboard, click "Create Endpoint" to generate a unique webhook URL:

https://hook.webhookify.app/wh/teams789abc456

Name the endpoint descriptively -- for example, "Stripe Enterprise Payments" or "GitHub CI/CD Events." This name will appear in your Teams adaptive card notifications.

2

Create an Incoming Webhook in Microsoft Teams

To receive Webhookify notifications in a Teams channel, you need to set up an incoming webhook connector.

  1. Open Microsoft Teams and navigate to the channel where you want to receive webhook alerts.
  2. Click the three-dot menu (...) next to the channel name.
  3. Select "Connectors" (or "Manage channel" > "Connectors" depending on your Teams version).
  4. Search for "Incoming Webhook" and click "Configure."
  5. Give the webhook a name like "Webhookify Alerts" and optionally upload the Webhookify logo as the icon.
  6. Click "Create."
  7. Teams will generate a unique webhook URL. Copy this URL -- you will need it in the next step.

The generated Teams webhook URL looks something like this:

https://outlook.office.com/webhook/abc123.../IncomingWebhook/def456.../ghi789...

Keep this URL secure. Anyone with this URL can post messages to your Teams channel.

3

Connect Teams to Webhookify

In your Webhookify dashboard, navigate to Settings or Notifications and configure the Microsoft Teams notification channel.

Paste the Teams incoming webhook URL you copied in the previous step. Webhookify will use this URL to deliver formatted adaptive card notifications to your Teams channel.

You can configure multiple Teams channels by creating separate Webhookify endpoints, each connected to a different Teams incoming webhook URL. This lets you route different types of events to different channels:

Endpoint: "Stripe Payments"  → Teams: #finance-alerts
Endpoint: "GitHub Deploys"   → Teams: #devops-alerts
Endpoint: "Shopify Orders"   → Teams: #ecommerce-ops

Webhookify will send a test notification to confirm the connection is working. Check the Teams channel to verify the adaptive card appears correctly.

4

Connect Your Webhook Sources

Paste your Webhookify endpoint URL into the webhook settings of the services you want to monitor.

  • Stripe: Navigate to Developers > Webhooks > Add endpoint in your Stripe Dashboard. Use the endpoint connected to your finance Teams channel. See the Stripe webhook guide.

  • GitHub: Go to Repository Settings > Webhooks > Add webhook. Use the endpoint connected to your DevOps Teams channel. See the GitHub webhook guide.

  • Shopify: Visit Settings > Notifications > Webhooks. Use the endpoint connected to your e-commerce Teams channel. See the Shopify webhook guide.

  • Azure DevOps, Jira, or other enterprise tools: Any service that supports webhook URLs works with Webhookify. Paste the endpoint URL into the service's webhook configuration.

5

Test and Verify

Send a test webhook to confirm that notifications arrive correctly in your Teams channel.

Use cURL for a quick test:

curl -X POST https://hook.webhookify.app/wh/teams789abc456 \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"event": "deployment.completed", "service": "api-server", "environment": "production", "status": "success"}'

Within seconds, an adaptive card should appear in your Teams channel. Verify the following:

  1. The adaptive card renders correctly with structured fields.
  2. The AI summary accurately describes the test event.
  3. The notification appears in the correct Teams channel.
  4. Team members can see the notification on both desktop and mobile.

If the notification does not appear, double-check that the Teams incoming webhook URL is correctly pasted in Webhookify settings and that the incoming webhook connector is still active in your Teams channel.

What Your Teams Notifications Look Like

Webhookify delivers webhook events as adaptive card messages in Microsoft Teams. Here is what a Stripe payment notification looks like:

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Webhookify Alert                                │
│                                                  │
│  ✅ payment_intent.succeeded                      │
│                                                  │
│  Source:    Stripe                                │
│  Endpoint:  Stripe Enterprise Payments            │
│                                                  │
│  AI Summary                                      │
│  Customer procurement@bigcorp.com paid            │
│  $2,499.00 USD for the Enterprise Plan annual     │
│  license. Payment method: Corporate Amex          │
│  ending in 9876. Invoice ID: inv_ABC123.          │
│                                                  │
│  Amount       $2,499.00 USD                       │
│  Customer     procurement@bigcorp.com             │
│  Plan         Enterprise (Annual)                 │
│  Status       Succeeded                          │
│                                                  │
│  Received: Feb 21, 2026 at 4:15 PM UTC            │
│                                                  │
│  [View in Webhookify Dashboard]                   │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

For a deployment failure event from GitHub:

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Webhookify Alert                                │
│                                                  │
│  ❌ deployment_status (failure)                    │
│                                                  │
│  Source:    GitHub                                │
│  Endpoint:  GitHub CI/CD Pipeline                 │
│                                                  │
│  AI Summary                                      │
│  Deployment to staging FAILED for                 │
│  enterprise-org/billing-service. Commit:          │
│  "Migrate payment processor" by @david.           │
│  Error: Database migration timeout.               │
│                                                  │
│  Repository   enterprise-org/billing-service      │
│  Environment  staging                            │
│  Triggered by @david                             │
│  Error        Database migration timeout          │
│                                                  │
│  Received: Feb 21, 2026 at 4:22 PM UTC            │
│                                                  │
│  [View in Webhookify Dashboard]                   │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Adaptive cards render natively in Teams on desktop, web, and mobile, providing a consistent experience across all platforms.

Best Practices for Teams Webhook Notifications

  • Map channels to business functions: Create Teams channels that correspond to alert categories rather than individual services. A #finance-alerts channel receives events from Stripe, PayPal, and LemonSqueezy. A #devops-alerts channel receives events from GitHub, Vercel, and Netlify. This keeps things organized by who cares about the events rather than where they come from.

  • Use channel moderation: In Teams, you can moderate channels so only specific users (or connectors like Webhookify) can post messages. This prevents team members from accidentally posting in webhook alert channels and burying important notifications.

  • Set up channel notifications strategically: Configure Teams channel notification settings so the most critical channels (e.g., #critical-alerts) always send desktop and mobile notifications, while less urgent channels (e.g., #general-webhooks) only show a badge or banner.

  • Leverage Power Automate: Connect your Teams webhook channels to Microsoft Power Automate workflows. For example, when a payment failure adaptive card arrives, automatically create a Planner task for the billing team or send a follow-up email to the customer.

  • Combine with other Webhookify channels: Use Teams for your organization's primary awareness channel and pair it with mobile push notifications for on-call engineers or email for external stakeholders who are not in Teams.

  • Secure your incoming webhook URLs: Treat Teams incoming webhook URLs as sensitive credentials. Do not share them in public repositories or unsecured documents. If a URL is compromised, regenerate it in Teams and update the URL in Webhookify.

Real-World Use Cases

Enterprise DevOps Teams

A large enterprise with hundreds of microservices uses Teams as their primary communication platform. They create a #deploy-status channel and connect all GitHub and Vercel deployment webhooks via Webhookify. When any service is deployed to production, the adaptive card shows the service name, commit message, deployer, and status. Failed deployments trigger an @mention of the on-call DevOps engineer in the card.

IT Operations and Infrastructure Monitoring

An IT operations team monitors infrastructure health using webhooks from monitoring tools. Server alerts, database health checks, and API uptime events are all routed to a #it-ops-alerts Teams channel via Webhookify. The team can see all infrastructure events in one place, start threaded discussions for incident response, and track resolution directly in Teams.

Corporate E-Commerce Operations

A large retail company running on Shopify routes order and fulfillment webhooks to a Teams channel that the operations team monitors. New high-value orders appear as adaptive cards with customer details, order total, and shipping requirements. The operations manager can assign fulfillment tasks directly in Teams by replying to the notification, keeping everything within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

Finance and Compliance Teams

A financial services company routes all Stripe payment webhooks to a locked-down Teams channel accessible only to the finance and compliance team. Every payment, refund, and dispute event is logged as an adaptive card, creating an auditable notification trail within the organization's Microsoft 365 compliance boundary. This satisfies regulatory requirements while keeping the team informed in real time.

If your organization requires admin approval for Teams connectors, prepare a brief justification for your IT admin: "Webhookify uses the standard Incoming Webhook connector to deliver AI-summarized webhook notifications from our payment processors and CI/CD pipelines. No custom app installation is required, and all data flows through Microsoft's standard connector infrastructure."

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