All iterations on Bots.Business are paid. You can choose payment plan with different iterations count.

What it is - "iteration"?

Each payment plan has its own iteration limit.

1 iteration it is:

• income message to bot

• ​Bot.runCommand(command) or Bot.run in the BJS spend 1 iteration

• Pressing the keyboard button

• Pressing the inline keyboard button

• 1 Auto Retry - it is 1 iteration

• 1 received webhook - it is 1 iteration

• 5 chats in Bot.runAll command - 1 iteration

• 5 sended message on mass broadcasting - 1 iteration

• 5 chats on Information refreshing (in Bot dashboard) - spend 1 iteration

• 100 incoming messages in blocked chat with method Bot.blockChat(chat.id)

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5 iterations it is:

• ​CSV import - spend 5 iterations

• Git import/export - spend 5 iterations

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Extra Points

• If you do not have enough iterations, Extra Points are spent.

• Unused Extra Points remain for the next month.

• You can get Extra Points for 💎 BB Points or buy them.

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How to get more iterations?

You can upgrade your Plan, buy Extra Points or order BB Cloud with unlimited iterations.

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How to reduce iterations count?

Reduce income messages to bot:

• remove it from super groups

• remove un useful commands

Reduce Bot.runCommand in BJS

Reduce Auto Retry calls

Beware of endless loops

Use Bot.runCommand, Bot.run, Bot.runAll carefully.

Example 1

Bad code example. Command /check

Bot.runCommand("/task")

Command /task

...
Bot.runCommand("/check")
...

So we have now scheduled /task in /check. But /task also have run for /check

You will end up in an infinite loop and your iterations will quickly end

Example 2

Bad code example. Command /check

Bot.run(command: "/task", run_after: 60*60)  // 1 hour delay
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Command /task

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Bot.runCommand("/check")
...

So we have now scheduled /task in /check with delay for 1 hour. But /task also have run for /check

But here we have delay for 1 hour. So we have 1 task per hour (and per user!). Is it good?

No! Because user can run /check command several times. For example 6 times in one minute. You will be have 6 background tasks during 1 hour instead of 1 tasks. Also any users can execute this command for several times.

You will end up in an infinite loop and your iterations will quickly end

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