Jobs & Tasks

yStore uses two mechanisms for background processing: the Craft CMS queue for async jobs and cron for scheduled tasks.

Queue jobs

These jobs are pushed to the Craft CMS queue and processed asynchronously. You can monitor them in Utilities → Queue Manager in the Craft CP.

Job	Trigger	Description
Send Order Email	Order placed / status changed	Renders and sends transactional emails
Generate Invoice PDF	Order placed / manually triggered	Generates the PDF invoice for an order
Generate Gift Card PDF	Gift card purchased	Creates the gift card voucher PDF
Send Flow Email	Automation flow action	Dispatches marketing flow emails
Sync Order to Store	Order status change (online mode)	Pushes status update to connected store
Fetch Remote Orders	CRON / manual trigger	Pulls new orders from connected store
Update Product Prices	CRON / import	Batch updates product price fields
Rebuild Search Index	CRON / manual	Rebuilds yStore search index entries

Monitoring the queue

If jobs are failing or stuck:

1. Go to Craft CP → Utilities → Queue Manager.
2. Check for failed jobs and their error messages.
3. Retry failed jobs using the retry button.
4. If jobs aren't processing, check your web server or PHP-FPM process manager — the queue runner must be active.

Queue runner

For production, run the queue as a daemon process instead of relying on web requests:

php craft queue/listen --verbose

Or add it to a supervisor process configuration for reliability.

Cron jobs

Scheduled tasks run via the system cron. Install the default yStore cron schedule with:

php craft yui/cron/install

Default cron schedule

Task	Schedule	Description
Analytics collection	Every 30 min	Collects and aggregates store analytics
Sitemap update	Daily at 2:00	Regenerates product sitemap
Widget update	Every hour	Refreshes dashboard widget data
Abandoned cart detection	Every 15 min	Marks carts as abandoned and triggers reminders
Flow runner	Every 5 min	Executes pending automation flow actions
Flow cleanup	Daily at 3:00	Removes completed/expired flow execution records

Store sync cron (when online store connected)

Task	Schedule	Description
Fetch orders	Every 10 min	Pulls new orders from connected store
Fetch customers	Every 30 min	Syncs customer data from connected store
Update order statuses	Every 5 min	Pushes order status changes to connected store
Create products	Every 30 min	Imports new products from connected store

Viewing cron configuration

To see what's currently installed:

php craft yui/cron/list

To uninstall cron jobs:

php craft yui/cron/uninstall

Manually running tasks

Most scheduled tasks can also be triggered manually via console commands. See Console Commands for the full list.

Gift card generation

Gift card batch generation runs as a queue job. If customers aren't receiving gift card PDFs, check the queue for failed generation jobs and inspect the error message.