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title: "Pagination and cursors"
description: "Page collections with opaque cursors and recover from expiry explicitly."
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# Pagination and cursors

Page collections with opaque cursors and recover from expiry explicitly.

## How it works

Page collections with opaque cursors and recover from expiry explicitly. TidyMessages keeps channel-specific behavior explicit while providing stable identifiers, safe retries, and auditable lifecycle events.

## Set it up

1. Choose the sending identity, conversation, channel, and environment.
2. Check capability, consent, current state, and channel policy.
3. Use an idempotent request and verify the resulting event history.

## What to expect

- The operation is traceable by stable request and resource identifiers.
- Acceptance, provider delivery, and customer interaction remain separate states.
- Retries and reordered events do not duplicate the customer action.
> [!TIP] Keep API keys, signing secrets, customer addresses, and message bodies out of source and logs.

Source: https://help.tidymessages.com/platform/pagination-and-cursors/index.mdx