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Workflow

Multi-step work a Base44 app runs on its own when a trigger fires, like a schedule or a change to your data.

A workflow is a trigger plus some steps. Something happens, then your app runs a function, waits, checks a condition and goes one way or the other.

My old site's weekly newsletter ran from a scheduled workflow, every Monday at 8am UTC.

If you've been around a while you'll know automations. Workflows replace them. Apps created from 6 July 2026 use workflows, older apps may still have automations, and an app has one or the other, never both. Copy an old example with automations in a function's config into a workflows app and the deploy fails.

Things worth knowing before they bite:

  • Scheduled workflows run at most once every five minutes.
  • Bulk operations like bulkCreate don't fire entity triggers.
  • A workflow that updates the record that triggered it can end up in a loop.
  • If one keeps failing, Base44 switches it off and emails you.

You need the Builder plan or above.

Related:Backend function, Connector and Superagent.

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