In aMember CP => configuration => advanced => there is: Use External Cron use external cron - recommended. you may find more details here External cron is required if you are using credit card recurring billing, or there is a lot of customers in your database I don't use credit card recurring payment but I do have a lot of customers in my database. My server accepts the creation of cron job. I don't really understand what are cron jobs for. As their use is recommended, can someone explain me how a cron job can be helpful?
It is required when you have CC payment plugins to handle recurring billing. And recommended when you setup Automatic Emails in amember. When External Cron will be set, all automatic emails will be sent from cron job process.
Thanks Alexander for your reply. Excuse me for asking such simple questions but I am a new user. Could you please give examples of automatic Emails I could or should set up? I have checked in aMember pro Manual but there is no entry for automatic Emails. Thanks for your patience.
Is there a cron job setting for when we send email manually to our lists? If lists are over 500, my hosts will not send without a cron job. What can I do?