Volume Control

You need our Volume Control plugin installed

Performance Options is a feature that will help battle the resource intensity of Penny Prizes. This feature comes combined with the Archiverfeature as they both try to solve the same issue which is to tackle various problems when a database is overloaded with orders.

How does it work?

Once installed you will see a widget on every Edit Product page.

• Minimum tickets in 1 order - Prevents lots of low ticket orders

• Maximum tickets in 1 order - Prevents 1000+ tickets in 1 order which can be resource intensive

• Customers time limit - Spaces out frequent purchasers orders so they don't keep purchasing every few seconds which saves resources for other customers

• Disable Add to Cart - Optional rarely used feature to hide Add to Cart incase of any issues

• Queue Mode - A global counter based on the orders in the current minute, if above the threshold customers will be put in a very short queue which is used to create space between orders and stop the website crashing

All these options are changeable by you however we do apply automatic limits on penny prizes and advise you to keep them. You can however remove them or disable performance options if you prefer.

Queue Mode

Queue mode will rarely come into action however when it does it stops customers accessing the checkout page and instead puts them in a short queue before redirecting them back to Checkout

Hopefully this article gives you insight into how our performance options work but please let us know if you have any questions!