Tag: Integrations

One order, two charges. Carry the same payment intent across retries, give uncertain results their own state and keep recovery tied to the business record.

For a meal business, a renewal means food to prepare. Give each production run a clear boundary, expect repeated events and reconcile billing with the kitchen.

Simple automations grow into tangled diagrams. Follow one case through the failures: where is it waiting, can a person recover it, can the rules change safely?

Creating a label can buy postage and assign tracking. Identify the package first, separate uncertain from failed requests and reprint without recreating.

Connecting a store to an ERP should cut manual work. Agree who owns customers, stock, prices and orders, then follow an order beyond the first successful sync.

MCP gives AI assistants a common way to reach business systems. Start with one bounded task, test inconvenient answers and keep permissions outside the model.

When checkout, fulfilment and support disagree, give each fact an owner, make duplicate updates harmless and reconcile the expected story with the real one.

When one function handles approvals, suppliers and timeouts, explicit workflow states, recorded steps and planned recovery make the process supportable.

Buttons get pressed twice and connections drop. How idempotency keeps a retried request from repeating its business effects, explained in plain English.