How to Setup Magento 2 Cron Job

Magento 2 is loaded with many awesome features, and Cron Job is one of the most useful among them. Cron is a time-based scheduler and it is useful to run commands automatically with scheduled time and date in Magento 2.

Why Configure Magento 2 Cron Job?

Cron is one the most important part of Magento 2. You can schedule multiple activities via cron which are listed below:

• Generating Google sitemaps
• Newsletters
• Reindexing
• Catalog price rules
• Customer Alerts and Notifications.
• Private sales (Magento Enterprise Edition only)
• All Magento e-mails which also includes order confirmation and transactional.
• Auto update currency rates

For more details, you may check the official documentation on Cron Job.

How to Configure Magento 2 Cron Job?

Today, I am going to guide you how to setup Cron Job in Magento using a custom module. I hope that you already have created a  custom module in Magento 2. So, let’s start!

Create crontab.xml

Create crontab.xml file in app/code/Magenticians/Mymodule/etc and paste the following code in it:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Cron:etc/crontab.xsd">
<group id="default">
<job name="cron_name" instance="Magenticians\Mymodule\Cron\Run" method="execute">
<schedule>*/1 * * * *</schedule>-->
</job>
</group>
</config>

In the code above, I have scheduled it for one minute. I have set the group id default and job name as cron_name, and you can change them if you want.

Create Run.php

First, create directory Cron in your custom module so, the directory will now look like this: app/code/Magenticians/Mymodule/Cron. Now create Run.php file in app/code/Magenticians/Mymodule/Cron and paste the following code in it:

<?php
namespace Magenticians\Mymodule\Cron;

class Run 
{
   protected $_logger;
   public function __construct(
       \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface $logger
   ) 
    {
     $this->_logger = $logger;
    }

   public function execute()
   {
       //Edit it according to your requirement
       $this->_logger->debug('Cron run successfully');
       return $this;
   }
}

Run Magento 2 Cron Job

Connect your store with an SSH and go to the root directory of your Magento 2. Now run these commands:

php bin/magento cache:flush
php bin/magento cron:run

You can also run Cron job for one group only by running this command: php bin/magento cron:run –group=”your_group_name” To check whether the Cron is working properly, go to var/log/debug.log of your store and you will see the text Cron run successfully in it. Go to cron_schedule table of database and you will see a new entry in it with your Cron job name.

Final Words

Cron job is very important for Magento 2 store through which you can save your time by scheduling and automating its activities. After following this guide, I hope you are now capable to easily setup Cron Job in Magento 2. If you still have any issues or want to discuss something related to Magento 2 Cron Job, feel free to use the comment box below!