Bots are a specialized kind of App that react to events from your Books.

A Bkper Bot can, for example, calculate taxes on transaction posting, convert currencies on transaction checked or post a message to Slack on comment created.

Bots run on behalf of the user who installed it, and the agents are identified in the transactions and activities list:

The bot responses are registered in the activity which started the bot call and can be viewed and replayed by clicking on the response at the bottom of the activity:

Bot execution are usually idempotent and is tried up to 5x with a small delay between calls. If, for some uncontrolled reason, the bot returns an error, the response is registered with an error flag, and is presented in red:

You can replay the bot execution anytime by clicking in the top right icon.

Transaction with bot errors can be filtered by running the query:

The bots work by reading the book and accounts properties in your book.