Track Payment Events via Go with Saashound

Tracking payment events in your Go application is crucial for maintaining a smooth and reliable payment process, ensuring successful transactions, and providing a positive user experience. Whether you are processing one-time payments or recurring subscriptions, having real-time visibility into payment events is essential for the financial health of your application.

Saashound, a powerful real-time event tracking tool, offers seamless tracking of payment events in your Go application. By integrating Saashound directly into your application, you can effortlessly monitor payment events and gain valuable insights into your payment processing.

Connecting Saashound to Your Go Application

To begin tracking payment events in your Go application using Saashound, follow these simple steps:

  1. Sign up for a free Saashound account to start tracking your application’s events.
  2. Create your first project from the user-friendly dashboard.
  3. Access the settings and securely copy your unique API token.

Go Integration

Integrating Saashound into your Go application is straightforward. Use the following code snippet to track payment events. Remember to replace API_TOKEN with your actual Saashound API token and update the project name to match your project.

Using net/http
package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"net/http"
)
func logEvent() {
apiURL := "https://api.saashound.co/log-event"
payload := map[string]interface{}{
"project": "my-project",
"channel": "financial-logs",
"event": "Payment Event",
"description": "Payment of $50.00 received from user ID 12345.",
"icon": "đź’ł",
"notify": true
}
payloadBytes, err := json.Marshal(payload)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error marshaling payload:", err)
return
}
req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", apiURL, bytes.NewReader(payloadBytes))
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error creating request:", err)
return
}
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer API_TOKEN")
client := http.DefaultClient
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error sending request:", err)
return
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
if resp.StatusCode >= 200 && resp.StatusCode < 300 {
fmt.Println("Log event sent successfully!")
} else {
fmt.Println("Failed to send log event. Response code:", resp.StatusCode)
}
}
func main() {
logEvent()
}

With Saashound tracking payment events, you can:

  • Real-Time Monitoring: Monitor payment events in real-time, ensuring successful transactions and identifying any issues promptly.
  • Transaction Analysis: Track payment success rates and identify trends in your application’s payment processing.
  • User Behavior Insights: Gain valuable insights into user interactions related to payment events, such as upgrades or downgrades.
  • Custom Alerts: Set up custom alert rules to notify your team about specific payment event occurrences.

Saashound Benefits

Saashound is designed to be user-friendly and accessible to developers and teams of all sizes. Here are some key benefits of using Saashound for tracking payment events in your Go application:

  • Ease of Use: Saashound offers a no-code event tracking solution, making it simple for anyone to implement and use.
  • Flexible Integration: Saashound can seamlessly integrate with your Go application, capturing various payment event types.
  • Cross-Platform Support: Saashound’s cross-platform push notifications deliver alerts to your preferred devices, keeping you informed from anywhere.
  • Event Filtering: Customize which payment events to track and receive notifications for, focusing on the most critical data.
  • Insights and Analytics: Utilize Saashound’s charts and analytics to visualize payment event data and gain valuable insights.

By leveraging Saashound’s tracking capabilities, you can ensure the reliability of your Go application’s payment process, improve your payment-related decision-making, and enhance the overall user experience.

Other use-cases for SaasHound

  1. Monitor API Authorization and Access Control in your Go Application
  2. Monitor API Response Times in your Go Application
  3. Monitor CPU and Memory Usage of External Services Accessed by your Go Application
  4. Monitor CPU Usage in your Go Application
  5. Monitor when a Database Goes Down in your Go Application
  6. Monitor Database Query Performance in your Go Application
  7. Monitor High Disk Usage in Your Go Application
  8. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your Go application
  9. Monitor failed logins in your Go application
  10. Monitor failed payments for your Go application
  11. Monitor memory usage in your Go application
  12. Monitor MySQL downtime in your Go application
  13. Monitor when a new feature is used in your Go application
  14. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your Go application
  15. Monitor Redis downtime in your Go application
  16. Monitor Server Health and Uptime in your Go Application
  17. Monitor suspicious activity in your Go application
  18. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your Go application
  19. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your Go service
  20. Get a notification when your Go code is done executing
  21. Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using Go
  22. Track A/B Testing and Feature Rollouts in your Go Application
  23. Track canceled subscriptions in your Go application
  24. Track Cron Jobs in Go
  25. Track when a file is uploaded to your Go application
  26. Track when a form is submitted to your Go application
  27. Track your Go cron jobs
  28. Track User Engagement Metrics in your Go Application
  29. Track user sign in events in Go
  30. Track user signup events via Go
  31. Track waitlist signup events via Go