Getting Started

Installing Booknetic Requirements in the Booknetic Updating Booknetic Plugin Booknetic Updates / Changelogs

Basics

Locations Settings Staff Settings Services Section in the Booknetic Customers in the Booknetic Payments in the Booknetic Workflow module Reminders of Booknetic Appearance of Booknetic Calendar Module Appointments Menu Booking block Front-end Customer Panel Recurring Appointments Group Appointments Multi-level Categories Bring People with You Booking panel in Popup/Modal Change appointment status via the link Sign-In to Booknetic

Add-ons

Boostore for Booknetic Reports in the Booknetic Coupons Options Gift cards in the Booknetic Donation Form Custom forms Conditional Prices Custom Durations Email Notifications SMS Notifications WhatsApp Notifications Telegram Notifications Amazon Simple Notification Service Invoices Documentation Taxes Settings Custom Appointment Statuses User Role Manager Conversion Tracking Twilio SMS verification Booking Limit manager Packages Product Inventory Staff Commissions

Integrations

Google calendar Outlook calendar Integrating Zoom to Booknetic VivoMeetings Integration WooCommerce payment integration Integration WooCoomerce Zapier Integration to Booknetic Mailchimp Integration Stripe payment integration Mollie payment integration PayPal payment integration

Settings

General settings of Booknetic Company details settings Business hours settings Holidays settings Payments settings Email settings Visual translator Cron Job Configuration Continue with Google button Continue with Facebook button Reorder the booking steps Google ReCaptcha Transfer license

Cron Job Configuration

How to configure a Cron Job on WordPress

What is a Cron Job?

A Cron job is a task that is scheduled to run at a specific time automatically. For example, a Cron job can back up a file every six hours automatically.
Booknetic uses the standard WordPress Cron Jobs for sending reminder messages. The default WordPress Cron Jobs might cause delays in sending reminder messages. Because, by default, WordPress does not use a real Cron job. Instead, whenever a page is loaded on a WordPress site by any user, WordPress runs the Cron Job Tasks. If nobody visits your WordPress site, your tasks will not run. As a result, your messages will delay.

To resolve these issues, you should disable the default virtual WordPress Cron Job, and configure a real Cron job. To do this, follow the instruction below:

1. Add the following line to the wp-config.php file:
define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);

2. Copy the command below and change the yoursite.com with your own website name:

wget -O /dev/null https://yoursite.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron > /dev/null 2>&1

3. Log in to the "CPanel"and find the Cron Jobs;

4. And paste it to the proper textbox on Cron Jobs. Make sure everything is the same with the picture. If you want the messages to be sent at the exact time you defined, you need to set the Cron Job every 15 minutes.

Please consider that choosing a proper Cron Job interval can change according to your sync choice.

Don't you have a Cpanel, or for some reason, you can't set up a Cron Job by following the above steps?

It is also possible to use third-party services for Cron Job configuration. There are a lot of platforms that provide the free Cron Job service for websites. But we would like to recommend to you the most popular and the free one - cron-job.org

You can simply register through the platform in order to use the service
After signing in to the system, please click on the "CREATE CRONJOB" button at the top right of the website
You need to write the WP-Cron link in the URL section without other commands. The WP-Cron link for your site will be as follows. https://yoursite.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron
After making all adjustments, click on the "TEST RUN" to ensure that the service is working. Once the test run is successful, click on the "CREATE" button and create your Cron task.