# \[NEW PLUGIN\] Smart Batch & Retry PRO 🛡️⚡ - End API Crashes & Workflow Timeouts! **URL:** \ **Category:** Plugins\ **Created:** [April 28, 2026, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-plugin-smart-batch-retry-pro-end-api-crashes-workflow-timeouts/395504 "2026-04-28T14:10:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tiagoncpereira](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/tiagoncpereira/32/256953_2.png) [@tiagoncpereira](https://forum.bubble.io/u/tiagoncpereira)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-plugin-smart-batch-retry-pro-end-api-crashes-workflow-timeouts/395504/1 "2026-04-28T14:10:28Z")
Hey fellow Bubblers! 👋 If you are building complex or enterprise-grade apps, you’ve probably hit these two massive roadblocks: 1. **The 30-Second Timeout:** Trying to process 5,000 records freezes the server, spikes your WU, and crashes the workflow. 2. **Failing External APIs:** You send a crucial request to OpenAI, Make, or a CRM, and they return a temporary 500 Server Error or 429 Rate Limit. Your workflow dies instantly. I built **Smart Batch & Retry PRO** to fix this once and for all. It’s a lightweight, 100% server-side utility toolkit that gives your app an enterprise-grade backend architecture. 🔥 **What’s inside the PRO toolkit?** 🪓 **1. The Batching Engine (List & JSON Chunkers)** Never hit the “CPU Limit Exceeded” error again. Pass a massive Bubble List or a heavy raw JSON Array (from an external Webhook), and the plugin instantly slices it into perfect, bite-sized chunks (e.g., groups of 50). Just send those chunks to a _Schedule API Workflow on a list_, and watch Bubble process thousands of records smoothly! 🛡 **2. The API Fetch Engine (Exponential Backoff)** Stop relying on the standard API connector for critical calls. Use our Fetch action. If the destination server fails, the plugin doesn’t crash—it waits and retries. _Pro Feature:_ It uses **Exponential Backoff** (the AWS/Google standard). It waits 1s, then 2s, then 4s between tries to prevent IP bans. _Pro Feature:_ **The Timeout Shield**. The plugin monitors Bubble’s internal clock. If your retries are about to hit Bubble’s 30-second hard limit, it safely aborts and returns a clean error so your app never crashes! **Check the Pro version here:** **[Go to Pro](https://bubble.io/plugin/smart-batch--retry-pro-1777365380558x154032848985128960)** There is also a Free version available with the basic linear retries and basic list chunking! **Check the Free version here:** [Go to Free](https://bubble.io/plugin/smart-batch--retry-free-1777301302299x249252664815124500) Let me know what you guys think or if you have any feature requests! Happy building! 🚀 ---
**Author:** ![boston85719](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/boston85719/32/77286_2.png) [@boston85719](https://forum.bubble.io/u/boston85719)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-plugin-smart-batch-retry-pro-end-api-crashes-workflow-timeouts/395504/2 "2026-04-28T14:22:13Z")
> [@tiagoncpereira](#): > > Bubble’s 30-second hard limit Is it 30 seconds or 5 minutes? > [@tiagoncpereira](#): > > slices it into perfect, bite-sized chunks (e.g., groups of 50). Is there a field to set that number or is it hard coded into the plugin action? ---
**Author:** ![tiagoncpereira](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/tiagoncpereira/32/256953_2.png) [@tiagoncpereira](https://forum.bubble.io/u/tiagoncpereira)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-plugin-smart-batch-retry-pro-end-api-crashes-workflow-timeouts/395504/3 "2026-04-28T14:37:10Z")
Hi Matthew! Thanks for your questions! For API calls it’s around 30 seconds and for the chunks they are not hard coded, you have an input to change the value. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![tiagoncpereira](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/tiagoncpereira/32/256953_2.png) [@tiagoncpereira](https://forum.bubble.io/u/tiagoncpereira)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-plugin-smart-batch-retry-pro-end-api-crashes-workflow-timeouts/395504/4 "2026-05-05T13:21:53Z")
Hey Bubble community! 👋 We all know the absolute worst enemy of scaling a Bubble app: **The 30-second server timeout limit.** 🛑 Have you ever tried generating a heavy PDF, running a complex OpenAI chain, or looping through hundreds of rows, only for Bubble to kill your workflow halfway through? Today, we are fixing that permanently with **Smart Batch & Retry (Pro) V2**! 🚀 We have just added two massive new actions that bring Enterprise-grade Serverless Queues natively to Bubble: ⏱ **Send to QStash (Upstash Integration):** Instead of waiting for a slow process to finish, send the task to QStash in 100 milliseconds. Your Bubble workflow finishes instantly, saving your capacity. QStash takes over, hits your destination API, and even handles automatic retries and delays (e.g., “process this exactly 1 hour from now”). 🛡 **Send to Hookdeck (Hookdeck Integration):** The ultimate shield for your app. Need to process massive amounts of data without hitting rate limits? Send your payload directly to Hookdeck. It will act as a buffer queue, drip-feeding the data to your final API or Bubble Backend Workflow safely so your server never crashes. Both platforms offer incredibly generous free tiers, and our plugin now connects to them natively in one click, without you needing to mess with complex API connectors or custom headers. Let me know if you guys have any questions about setting up your asynchronous workflows! Stop fighting the timeout limit and let the queues do the heavy lifting! 👇✨ ---
**Author:** ![tiagoncpereira](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/tiagoncpereira/32/256953_2.png) [@tiagoncpereira](https://forum.bubble.io/u/tiagoncpereira)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/new-plugin-smart-batch-retry-pro-end-api-crashes-workflow-timeouts/395504/5 "2026-05-14T14:11:56Z")
Hey Bubblers! 👋 If you are scaling an app to handle thousands of users or dealing with enterprise clients, you know that “hoping” your backend workflows finish successfully isn’t a strategy. You need to handle crashes gracefully, monitor external API speeds, and prove to auditors that your data is safe. I am incredibly proud to announce **V3 of Smart Batch & Retry (Pro)**—the Enterprise Governance Update! 🛡⚡ 🔥 **Here is what is packed into this massive release:** - 💀 **Dead-Letter Queues (DLQ):** We updated our _Exponential Backoff Fetch_! If an external API is totally down and fails all retries, the plugin now safely sends the original payload to a DLQ Webhook of your choice. Never lose data to a silent timeout again! - 🔄 **Failure Recovery for Big Data:** Processing a 10,000-item JSON array and Bubble crashes at item 4,000? Our _JSON Array Chunker_ now features a Start Index. Just pass in “4000”, and it instantly bypasses the processed items, allowing you to resume jobs without duplicating API calls! - 🏛 **The NEW Governed API Fetch:** We built a dedicated action for mission-critical tasks. It features **SLA Monitoring** (alerts you if an API takes longer than your defined threshold) and an **Execution History Ledger** (outputs a structured JSON of every timestamp, retry, and network error for compliance auditing). This update moves your Bubble backend from a simple “no-code” setup to a robust, fault-tolerant microservice architecture. It is live on the marketplace right now! Let me know how you plan to use Dead-Letter Queues and SLAs in your apps! Happy (and safe) building! 🛠✨