diff --git a/src/main/java/org/killbill/billing/plugin/api/notification/PluginConfigurationHandler.java b/src/main/java/org/killbill/billing/plugin/api/notification/PluginConfigurationHandler.java
index 54b0de5..4b28e67 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/killbill/billing/plugin/api/notification/PluginConfigurationHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/killbill/billing/plugin/api/notification/PluginConfigurationHandler.java
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+
 public abstract class PluginConfigurationHandler {
 
     private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PluginConfigurationHandler.class);
@@ -49,7 +53,18 @@ public PluginConfigurationHandler(final String pluginName, final OSGIKillbillAPI
     protected abstract void configure(@Nullable UUID kbTenantId);
 
     protected void configure(final String eventConfigKeyName, @Nullable final UUID kbTenantId) {
-        if (eventConfigKeyName.equals(configKeyName)) {
+        String extractedKeyName = eventConfigKeyName;
+
+        try {
+            final JsonNode jsonNode = new ObjectMapper().readTree(eventConfigKeyName);
+            if (jsonNode.has("key")) {
+                extractedKeyName = jsonNode.get("key").asText();
+            }
+        } catch (final JsonProcessingException e) {
+            // No action required, eventConfigKeyName is a plain string.
+        }
+
+        if (extractedKeyName.equals(configKeyName)) {
             configure(kbTenantId);
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/killbill/billing/plugin/api/notification/TestPluginConfigurationHandler.java b/src/test/java/org/killbill/billing/plugin/api/notification/TestPluginConfigurationHandler.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5160bcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/killbill/billing/plugin/api/notification/TestPluginConfigurationHandler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2020-2025 Equinix, Inc
+ * Copyright 2014-2025 The Billing Project, LLC
+ *
+ * The Billing Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License, version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+ * License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.  See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.killbill.billing.plugin.api.notification;
+
+import java.util.UUID;
+
+import org.killbill.billing.osgi.libs.killbill.OSGIKillbillAPI;
+import org.mockito.Mock;
+import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;
+import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.spy;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.times;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
+
+public class TestPluginConfigurationHandler {
+
+    private PluginConfigurationHandler pluginConfigurationHandler;
+
+    @Mock
+    private OSGIKillbillAPI osgiKillbillAPI;
+
+    @Mock
+    private ObjectMapper objectMapper;
+
+    @BeforeMethod(groups = "fast")
+    void setUp() {
+        MockitoAnnotations.openMocks(this);
+
+        pluginConfigurationHandler = spy(new PluginConfigurationHandler("email-notification-plugin", osgiKillbillAPI) {
+            @Override
+            protected void configure(final UUID kbTenantId) {
+                // Empty implementation for testing
+            }
+        });
+    }
+
+    @Test(groups = "fast")
+    void testConfigureWithValidJsonKey() throws Exception {
+        final String eventConfigKeyName = "{\"key\":\"PLUGIN_CONFIG_email-notification-plugin\"}";
+        final UUID kbTenantId = UUID.randomUUID();
+
+        final JsonNode mockJsonNode = mock(JsonNode.class);
+        when(mockJsonNode.has("key")).thenReturn(true);
+        when(mockJsonNode.get("key")).thenReturn(mock(JsonNode.class));
+        when(mockJsonNode.get("key").asText()).thenReturn("PLUGIN_CONFIG_email-notification-plugin");
+
+        when(objectMapper.readTree(eventConfigKeyName)).thenReturn(mockJsonNode);
+
+        pluginConfigurationHandler.configure(eventConfigKeyName, kbTenantId);
+
+        verify(pluginConfigurationHandler, times(1)).configure(kbTenantId);
+    }
+
+    @Test(groups = "fast")
+    void testConfigureWithPlainString() {
+        final String eventConfigKeyName = "PLUGIN_CONFIG_email-notification-plugin";
+        final UUID kbTenantId = UUID.randomUUID();
+
+        pluginConfigurationHandler.configure(eventConfigKeyName, kbTenantId);
+
+        verify(pluginConfigurationHandler, times(1)).configure(kbTenantId);
+    }
+}