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Key features include automatic compensating transactions (saga rollback) in reverse order on failure, signal-based suspension for external input with optional timeouts, parallel action blocks, child workflows with close policies, side effect recording for non-deterministic values, tag-based run querying, and Artisan commands for management. The package requires PHP 8.5 and Laravel 13, and supports multi-tenancy via capture/restore closures. A `runSync()` method makes workflows easy to test synchronously. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I roll back completed steps in a Laravel workflow when a later step fails? Register an undo action or closure per step using compensateWith(), and the engine automatically fires those compensations in reverse order when a later step throws an exception. For grouped steps, saga() builds an explicit compensation block, with onCompensationFailure() controlling whether a failed undo aborts the rollback and compensateInParallel() running undos concurrently. _Track new Laravel packages like this one on daily.dev as you evaluate workflow and saga tooling._ ### How can a Laravel workflow pause and wait for human approval or an external callback before continuing? Call $this->signal('approval') inside a workflow method, which suspends the run and releases the worker until something delivers that named signal from elsewhere in the application. Chaining timeoutAfter() adds a deadline that throws AwaitSignalTimeoutException if the signal never arrives, letting the workflow catch it and run a fallback action instead. _Developers building approval-driven workflows can follow tools like this on daily.dev._ ### What are the requirements for installing the Saga Lara Flow package in a Laravel project? Saga Lara Flow requires PHP 8.5 and Laravel 13, and is released under the MIT license. Install it with composer require discovery-ukraine/saga-lara-flow, run php artisan migrate for its database tables, and publish the config with php artisan vendor:publish --tag="saga-lara-flow-config" to set the database connection, queue, lock behavior, and tenancy hooks. _daily.dev helps Laravel developers keep up with package requirements before adopting new workflow tools._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Chevere Workflow: A Declarative PHP Workflow Engine with Async Job Execution](https://daily.dev/posts/chevere-workflow-a-declarative-php-workflow-engine-with-async-job-execution-s6zf3p4ye) · Laravel News · 8 upvotes · 1 comments - [Laravel Chores: Resumable Data Operations and Cleanups](https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-chores-resumable-data-operations-and-cleanups-pwnv8kwdu) · Laravel News · 10 upvotes · 0 comments - [A new programming model for durable execution](https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-programming-model-for-durable-execution-8hk6zrkca) · Vercel · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Managed Queues: Autoscaling Queue Workers on Laravel Cloud](https://daily.dev/posts/managed-queues-autoscaling-queue-workers-on-laravel-cloud-hprotj33u) · Laravel · 23 upvotes · 3 comments --- Tags: [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/saga-lara-flow-durable-workflows-and-compensating-transactions-on-laravel-queues-p0xhmikac) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Saga Lara Flow: Durable Workflows and Compensating Transactions on Laravel Queues","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/saga-lara-flow-durable-workflows-and-compensating-transactions-on-laravel-queues-p0xhmikac","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/saga-lara-flow-durable-workflows-and-compensating-transactions-on-laravel-queues-p0xhmikac"},"datePublished":"2026-08-07T13:52:52.164Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T21:08:50.670Z","description":"Saga Lara Flow is a Laravel package that enables durable, long-running business processes written as plain PHP methods on top of Laravel queues. 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