# Compensating Transactions

> Undoing a completed step's effects with an offsetting action when a later step in a distributed workflow fails.

Record: `lex:compensating-transactions`
Kind: technique
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-compensating-transactions

## category

- [Event Messaging Async](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/event-messaging-async.md)

## referenced-by

- [Saga Pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/saga-pattern.md)