Schedule marketing jobs

If the store uses the services-based marketing system, the following scheduled jobs are added. We can adjust the schedule on which these jobs run if necessary.

• Scheduling the SendMarketingTriggers job
  This job schedules the sending of marketing email activities. This job also processes triggers in Dialog activities and generates top-browsed and best-seller lists in Web activities. By default, this job runs every 30 minutes, but we can change the schedule interval to something more appropriate for the site.

• Scheduling the SaveMarketingStatistics job
  This command saves the accumulated statistics to the database. The SaveMarketingStatistics job calls the Process MarketingTrigger Web service with the SaveStatistics action. Default is 15 minutes, which means that every 15 minutes, the most up-to-date statistics are available. If this is not frequent enough, the interval can be reduced.

• Scheduling the DownloadStatistics job to copy marketing and search statistics
  Marketing and search statistics must be available in the staging environment so that business users can view up-to-date data in statistics reports and search rule experiments in Management Center. We can create and schedule a DownloadStatistics job on the staging or authoring server to connect to and automatically copy search and marketing event statistics from the production environment at a scheduled interval, for example, every ten minutes.

• Scheduling the ProcessExpiredPromotions job
  We can use the ProcessExpiredPromotions job to report, delete, archive, or deactivate expired promotions automatically. This job can potentially improve performance of the promotion engine since deleted or archived promotions do not display in the main list of promotions on Management Center.

Related concepts
Jobs

Related tasks
Testing dialog activities
Scheduling the SendMarketingTriggers job
Scheduling the SaveMarketingStatistics job
Scheduling the DownloadStatistics job to copy marketing and search statistics