Why Paddle's subscription.activated arrives before subscription.created

You'd think events fire in the order things happen. They don't. I was building a Paddle integration last week. Subscription billing, nothing fancy. Customer clicks buy, Paddle handles checkout, my app gets webhooks and updates the database. The flow should be simple: Customer completes checkout subscription.created fires subscription.activated fires My app inserts a row on .created , updates status on .activated That's what I built. It worked great in my head. What actually happened In productio