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Smart Batch & Retry (Pro)

Published April 2026
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Welcome to Smart Batch & Retry PRO! 🛡️⚡ The ultimate enterprise-grade utility toolkit designed to save your Bubble app from CPU limits, 30-second timeouts, and third-party API crashes.
When you scale your app, standard workflows aren't enough. Heavy database operations timeout, and single API failures (like OpenAI or Make.com returning a 500 error or 429 Rate Limit) crash your entire backend. This plugin gives you absolute control over your data processing and network requests.

📦 The Batching Engine (Data Management)

List Chunker (Basic): Slice massive Bubble lists (e.g., thousands of Unique IDs) into safe, manageable JSON blocks (like chunks of 50) for fast recursive/scheduled workflows.

JSON Array Chunker (PRO 💎): Easily parse and slice massive raw JSON Arrays coming from external APIs or Webhooks. Forget complex regex; just paste the JSON, set the chunk size, and let the plugin do the heavy lifting!

🛡️ The API Fetch Engine (Network Resilience)

Safe API Fetch (Linear Retry): Make HTTP requests that automatically try again if the destination server fails.

Exponential Backoff Fetch (PRO 💎): The industry standard for API resilience (used by AWS & Google). Instead of spamming a failing server, this action uses AI-like pacing: it waits 1s, then 2s, then 4s, then 8s between retries.

🛡️ The Timeout Shield (PRO Exclusive): Both API actions in the PRO version feature a built-in 14-second to 25-second "Shield". If the Bubble server is about to kill your workflow due to the 30-second hard limit, the plugin safely aborts the retries and returns a clean error. Your app never crashes!

⏱️ Send to QStash (Upstash): The ultimate Outbound queue. Schedule tasks to run later (e.g., delay for 10 seconds or 1 hour), bypass timeouts, and let QStash deliver your payloads asynchronously with automatic exponential backoff.

🛡️ Send to Hookdeck: The ultimate Inbound shield. Protect your external APIs or your own Bubble backend from traffic spikes. Send data to Hookdeck, and let it drip-feed the requests to your destination to prevent rate limits and server crashes.

🌟 Key Benefits:

100% Server-Side & extremely fast.

Save Workload Units (WU) by preventing failed retries and infinite loops.

Zero setup required. Handle standard Bubble Arrays and heavy JSON seamlessly.

Build resilient, unbreakable backend architectures today! 🛠️

Destroy the 30-second limit. Never lose a webhook or drop a payload again! 📉🚀



✨ What's New in V4?

🏛️ NEW ACTION: Governed API Fetch (Pro)

SLA Monitoring: Set a maximum execution time (e.g., 3000ms). If an external API is silently degrading and taking too long, the plugin flags an SLA Breach so you can trigger instant developer alerts.

Compliance Ledger: Outputs a highly structured Execution History JSON containing exact timestamps, wait times, and error codes for every single retry attempt. Perfect for SOC2 compliance and audit logs.

💀 Exponential Backoff Fetch: Dead-Letter Queues (DLQ) & Observability

No More Lost Data: If an API fails all 5 retry attempts, the plugin won't just give up. It automatically routes the original payload and error data to a DLQ Webhook URL of your choice. Catch failed tasks and replay them later!

Observability Logs: Gain deep telemetry into exactly how long the plugin waited between retries and why each attempt failed.

🔄 JSON Array Chunker: Smart Failure Recovery

Resume from Crash: If your massive 10,000-item backend workflow crashes halfway through, you no longer have to start from scratch. Pass the number of successful items into the new Start Index field, and the chunker will magically skip them, returning only the Remaining Items to prevent duplicate processing!


Demo Page: https://demo-app-56978.bubbleapps.io/version-test/smartbatch_pro/1777369545841x295614567361669700

Editor Page: https://bubble.io/page?id=demo-app-56978&test_plugin=1777365380558x154032848985128960_current&tab=Design&name=smartbatch_pro

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Instructions

(Note: The PRO version includes the Free actions so your existing workflows won't break when upgrading!)
How to use Action: JSON Array Chunker (PRO)

Use this when receiving a large array of objects from an external API (e.g., Make, Stripe, Xano).

In the json_array_string input, pass the raw text array (e.g., [{"id":1}, {"id":2}]). Tip: You can also generate this natively in Bubble using the :format as text and :formatted as JSON-safe operators on a Search!

Set your chunk_size (e.g., 50).

Pass the resulting chunked_lists to a "Schedule API Workflow on a list" action.

How to use Action: Exponential Backoff Fetch (PRO)

Replace your standard API calls with this action for critical third-party integrations (OpenAI, CRMs, etc.).

Set your URL and Method.

Provide your Headers and Body as clean, raw JSON strings (e.g., {"Content-Type": "application/json"}).

Set max_retries (e.g., 3).

Set the base_delay_ms (e.g., 1000 for 1 second). The plugin will automatically double this wait time after every failed attempt (1s > 2s > 4s), protecting your app and preventing IP bans from external servers!

Always check if Result of step X's is_success is yes before continuing your workflow.



How to use Send to QStash (Async Outbound & Scheduling):

Create a free account at Upstash (upstash.com) and go to the QStash dashboard.

Copy your QSTASH_TOKEN from the REST API section.

In your Bubble workflow, select the Send to QStash action.

Paste your token and enter your destination_url (where you want the data to eventually go, like an external API or your own Bubble Backend Workflow).

Add your JSON payload.

(Optional) Set delay_seconds if you want the delivery to be scheduled for the future. The Bubble workflow will end instantly, and QStash will deliver it later!

How to use Send to Hookdeck (Async Routing & Protection):

Create a free account at Hookdeck (hookdeck.com).

Create a new Connection: Define your Source (Webhook) and your Destination (where the data should go).

Copy the Source Webhook URL provided by Hookdeck.

In your Bubble workflow, select the Send to Hookdeck action.

Paste the Hookdeck URL and your JSON payload.

Bubble will instantly send the data to Hookdeck, which will safely queue and route it to your final destination!


How to Master the New Enterprise Features:

1. Setting up a Dead-Letter Queue (DLQ)

Action: Exponential Backoff Fetch

Setup: Create a new Backend Workflow in your app to act as your "Rescue Bin". Copy its URL and paste it into the new dlq_url field. If a fetch fails all its retries, the plugin will POST the failed payload and telemetry to this URL. Check the dlq_triggered (yes/no) output to trigger an internal alert.

2. Implementing Failure Recovery for Large Batches

Action: JSON Array Chunker

Setup: If you are chunking a massive list, keep track of how many items you've successfully processed in your database. If the workflow crashes, trigger it again and pass that number into the start_index field. The plugin will output exactly how many items were skipped_items and return the chunks for the remaining_items.

3. Enforcing SLAs and Compliance Auditing

Action: Governed API Fetch (Pro)

Setup: Use this action for mission-critical API calls. Set your sla_threshold_ms (e.g., 5000 for 5 seconds).

Monitoring: Use the sla_breached output to send a Slack message to your team if the target API is too slow.

Auditing: Save the execution_history_json output to a "Logs" Data Type in Bubble to maintain an unalterable record of the task's lifecycle.

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