It's part of the Shopify and BigCommerce's design pattern explicity. Like, yes we offer webhooks, but also you need to come back once an X (I typically do hourl

It's part of the Shopify and BigCommerce's design pattern explicity. Like, yes we offer webhooks, but also you need to come back once an X (I typically do hourly) and sweep for missed data. Not to mention with Shopify, webhooks are not guaranteed to be at all ordered. You may receive an order.updated event prior to an order.create event. Delivery milage and timing may vary. So, after all that back and forth we asked ourselves, why do we even bother with webhooks? Well for one, it helps our clients being real time to improve their shipping speed, keeping real time inventory, and so forth. Secondly, it keeps our processing more flat. We might run an hourly cron to pickup stragglers, but we don't do huge data dumps per hour. In some our busier systems it can be a real challenge when clients do things like monthly invoicing all their customers. Using webhooks and processing records as they come in keeps the queue as small as reasonable.