What the scheduler does every day

The scheduler runs the time-based work. A healthy website does not prove a healthy scheduler; the dashboard's Last Automation Run does.

Every five minutes

• Queued email.
• Ticket escalations and scheduled ticket actions.
• The mail import, from its own cron job.
• New-release checks, every eight hours.

Once a day, in the hour you choose

• Invoices for services and billable items falling due.
• Reminders before and after the due date, and late fees.
• Suspension and termination of overdue services, as your rules say.
• Card captures, membership dues and lapsing, monthly gifts.
• Currency rates, the database backup and the daily report.

The dashboard's Automation Overview counts what the last run did: invoices created, card captures, overdue suspensions, inactive tickets closed, overdue reminders and cancellations processed.