What counts as a task?
When a flow runs, it uses tasks. The number of tasks you have available per month depends on the plan you signed up for. You can easily upgrade/downgrade via the EposNow app store.
Fetching data
Fetching data from EposNow counts as a task. We are generally able to fetch 200 records per page, so each page fetch is 1 task
If we need to filter by related data (for example filtering products by the supplier city), then we would also need to fetch the related data from EposNow.
- Each page fetch of related data counts as 1 task
- If the data we are filtering by is available in the primary record (the product data in this example), then no related data fetch is needed.
- A good example of this is if you selected the valid suppliers, then we can check this directly on the product data as EposNow store the supplier ID in the product data. If we need to filter by the supplier city, then this means that we need to fetch the suppliers too in order to be able to determine which city is set for them.
Filtering Data
Filtering the data is included for free, this does not count towards your tasks
Actions
The final result of all actions on a record counts as a task
- You can set up multiple actions to update multiple fields on the record
- The actions are applied to the record to the relevant fields
- The final record is then updated on EposNow (or added to a CSV file). This counts as 1 task.
- So if 10 records pass the filter and are updated on EposNow, this will have used 10 tasks.
Where were my tasks used?
To see how your tasks were used, you can take a look at the
flow runs. These show how many tasks were used for each run of your flows, and you can have a look at the logs under each run to see exactly which record was updated.