Cronjobs, or scheduled tasks, are background processes that keep your Magento webshop running by automating some tasks. Some examples of cronjobs are as follows:
Sending newsletters
Recalculating catalog promotion rules
Cleaning visitor logs
Sending price and stock alert e-mails
Updating currency rates
When the Magento cron is not configured correctly, you will see that some features of your Magento shop will not work as expected.
In this recipe, you will learn how you can configure cronjobs on the server and how you can verify that they are working. Open your SSH client and change to the Magento folder.