How Can I Prevent Duplicate Webhook Executions When a Mobile App Retries a Request?

Our team at AppVerticals is using Pabbly Connect in a custom app development project. The mobile application sends an event to a Pabbly webhook whenever a user completes an order.

The problem occurs when the user has an unstable connection. If the app does not receive a response quickly, it retries the request. Pabbly then receives the same event more than once, which can create duplicate CRM records and send duplicate notifications.

Each request already contains a unique event_id, an order_id and a timestamp. I tried adding a filter based on the event ID, but I could not find a reliable way to check whether that ID was processed during an earlier workflow execution.

What is the recommended way to make a Pabbly Connect webhook workflow idempotent? Can Pabbly store and check each event_id before running the remaining actions, or should this logic remain in the application backend?

Expected result: each event should be processed only once, even when the mobile app retries the webhook request.

Hello Saad,

Thank you for reaching out and for the detailed explanation.

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Hello Saad,

This is a final follow-up regarding your query about preventing duplicate webhook executions.

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Hello Saad,

Please disregard our previous email mentioning this as a final follow-up.

Just following up on our previous communication regarding your query about preventing duplicate webhook executions.

Please share the following details so we can review the workflow and Task History:

1. Workflow name

2. Workflow URL

We’ll review the existing setup and assist you further.

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