Cron Jobs in FuseBase Apps: Quick Guide

A cron job is a task that runs automatically on a schedule. Instead of waiting for a person to click a button, your backend app can run by itself:

• every 5 minutes
• every hour
• every day
• every Monday
• once a month

In simple words, a cron job lets your app do work on time. Cron jobs are useful when something needs to happen regularly.

They help you:

• automate repeated work
• keep data fresh
• send reminders on time
• generate reports automatically
• clean up old data
• run background AI tasks without manual work

Common use cases

1. Daily reports

Generate a report every morning and save it to the app or send it to the team.

2. Reminder messages

Check incomplete requests every day and send reminder emails or notifications.

3. Data sync

Pull fresh data from another system every hour.

4. AI summaries

Run a summary job every night on new documents, tickets, or conversations.

5. Monitoring

Check every few minutes if something failed, changed, or needs attention.

Adding a cron job is done in the same way as adding any other functionality to your apps: you either specify the desired actions and the AI determines that a cron job needs to be added, or you directly state it as part of the prompt.

Simple prompts

• Every day at 9 AM, send reminders for incomplete requests.
• Every morning, generate a daily dashboard summary.
• Every hour, sync new records from an external API.
• Every Sunday night, archive completed items.
• Every 30 minutes, check for overdue approvals.
• Every weekday at 8 AM, check all open requests and send a follow-up only if there has been no activity in the last 3 days.
• Every night, summarize all newly uploaded documents and save the summary back to the database.
• Every hour, refresh the KPI dashboard and save a snapshot for reporting.
• Every week, scan for duplicate records and mark them for review.
• etc