---
title: "Telling"
description: "an address a tenant registered to be told at, with its signed calls as durable work"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/telling
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Telling

an address a tenant registered to be told at, with its signed calls as durable work

[figure: Telling is a definition at tenant scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | definition |
| scope | tenant |
| key | the tenant, the address and the kinds |
| store | postgres |
| family | gateway |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `tenant` | `id` | yes |  |
| `address` | `address` | yes |  |
| `kinds` | [Flow](/concepts/flow) | yes |  |
| `secret` | `id` | yes | a vault entry |
| `tries_bound` | `count` | yes |  |
| `failed_calls` | [FailedCall](/concepts/failedcall) | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
- [`/v1/act/webhook`](/reference/act/webhook) returns it