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## Cron Job

Cron is a time-based job scheduler that enables tasks to be scheduled and runned automatically in a set interval. Cron job enables Online Trade to automatically and dynamically add ROI (Return on Investment) on users account and also helps in automatic payments, confirmation and crediting to users account.

Cron-job Setups

You can setup cron Job service in two ways:

- Using external Cron job service
- Internal Cron Job service on your cpanel or task scheduler on plesk

Using Internal Cron Job service via Cpanel (settings)

First of all, we have the common settings option. It is to specify the Cron job settings. It contains five parts in every option which are;

- Minute (Range: 0 to 59)
- Hour (Range: 0 to 23)
- Day of month (Range: 1 to 31)
- Month (Range: 1 to 12)
- Day of week (Range: 0 to 6, Sunday will count as 0)

To setup cron job on your cpanel host or other hosts

* create an every minute or 5 minutes job and supply the following command wget -O--q yourdomain.com/cron e.g. `wget -O--q https://yoursite.com/cron`

To verify that your cron job is working, run the cron URL on your browser directly e.g. `https://yoursitecom/cron.` If this did not return error, it means all is well.

Note: replace yoursite.com with your website name.

Using External Cron Job service

you can use an external cron job service such as.

https://cron-job.org/

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