What Are Transactions in Albato?
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A transaction is the result of an automation, i.e. a successfully worked out step of an automation (creation of an entity in a third-party system, the result of a tool).
In other words, it is the unit you spend when you successfully complete the steps in the automation. The first step does not spend a transaction. Spending begins with the second step, regardless of where the action takes place — in a third-party service or in Albato.
Example: You need to transfer leads from Facebook to Google Sheets and Slack.
To process one lead, the automation uses two transactions:
– one transaction to create a new row in Google Sheets; – one transaction to send the lead to Slack.
Running an automation will produce one transaction less than the number of steps it consists of. In our case, the scheme is Facebook — Google Sheets — Slack. 3 steps, but only 2 transactions will be debited.
Transactions are counted for each trigger run and for each batch of processed data. If several leads are processed at once, transactions are calculated for each lead and each step, not as a single action.
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