Server setup

Three things run in the background. The admin’s System health page shows whether each one is alive.

	What it does	Needed
Scheduler	Timed jobs: cancelling unpaid orders, releasing scheduled orders, reports, backups, exchange rates, the weekly GeoIP update.	Yes
Queue worker	Sends emails and push notifications, imports catalogues, runs exports — so pages stay fast.	Yes
Realtime	Pushes new orders and status changes to the admin, store panel and apps instantly. Without it they refresh every few seconds instead.	Recommended

Scheduler

Add one cron job that runs every minute. Replace the path with where you uploaded RapidMart.

* * * * * cd /home/you/rapidmart && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

cPanel
VPS

cPanel → Cron Jobs → Common settings: Once per minute → paste the command above (only the part after the five *) → Add New Cron Job.

Run crontab -e as the web server’s user (often www-data) and add the line above.

Queue worker

The worker is a process that keeps running. Restart it after every update (php artisan queue:restart — Supervisor starts it again).

VPS (Supervisor)
Shared hosting (cron)

[program:rapidmart-worker]
command=php /var/www/rapidmart/artisan queue:work --queue=realtime,default --tries=3
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=www-data
numprocs=1
stopwaitsecs=60

Then sudo supervisorctl reread && sudo supervisorctl update.

If you can’t run long processes, add a second cron job that works through the queue every minute and stops:

* * * * * cd /home/you/rapidmart && php artisan queue:work --queue=realtime,default --stop-when-empty --max-time=55 >> /dev/null 2>&1

Realtime (optional)

RapidMart uses Laravel Reverb (included, self-hosted) or Pusher (hosted).

Reverb: Admin → Settings → Realtime → Reverb, enter your public host, and save — the keys are generated for you. Then run php artisan reverb:start --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8080 under Supervisor, and proxy your websocket host (HTTPS) to it.
Pusher: create a Pusher Channels app, then enter its keys in Admin → Settings → Realtime.

Step by step, with the Supervisor and Nginx settings: Realtime.