Purging settings

The Purging group sets how long old data is kept before it is deleted for good: concept and completed orders, retired inventory, integration messages, sent messages and imports. Find the settings under Admin › Settings › Purging. For how levels and conditions work, see Settings.

Automatic purging is currently switched off

The scheduled purge job is disabled in Boxture at the moment, so these settings are stored but no data is deleted automatically. The descriptions below explain what each setting does when purging runs.

How purging works

The purge job goes through every account and deletes, per setting, the data that is older than the configured period. Deleted data cannot be restored, and it disappears from reports too.

All purging settings are looked up through the account hierarchy, starting at the top-level account. Because every purging setting has a system default, the top-level account always resolves to a value, which means in practice the top-level account's configuration applies to all its sub-accounts. Use the Order type condition on the top-level account for differences between order types.

Concept orders

Key	purging.concept_orders
Type	Number of days
Default	7
Conditions	Order type
Account lookup	Hierarchy (top-level account first)

Purge orders in state concept after how many days.

Orders that are still in concept (never confirmed) and were created more than this number of days ago are deleted. Concept orders are often left behind by abandoned imports or integrations; this keeps the order list clean.

Completed orders

Key	purging.completed_orders
Type	Number of months
Default	12
Conditions	Order type
Account lookup	Hierarchy (top-level account first)

Purge orders in state completed after how many months.

Orders that were completed more than this number of months ago are deleted, together with their shipments. Retired inventory items that belonged to the order are kept, but lose their link to it.

Retired inventory

Key	purging.retired_inventory
Type	Number of months
Default	1
Conditions	None
Account lookup	Hierarchy (top-level account first)

Purge inventory in state retired after how many months.

Inventory items become retired when they leave the warehouse (shipped, scrapped, consumed). Retired inventory items without a serial number that have not changed for this number of months are deleted, as are retired containers. Retired items with a serial number are kept, so serial number history (and recycling) stays possible.

Vorto messages

Key	purging.vorto_messages
Type	Number of months
Default	3
Conditions	None
Account lookup	Hierarchy (top-level account first)

Purge vorto messages after how many months.

Integration messages (under Admin › Integration › Messages) older than this number of months are deleted. See Vorto.

Nuntius messages

Key	purging.nuntius_messages
Type	Number of months
Default	6
Conditions	None
Account lookup	Hierarchy (top-level account first)

Purge nuntius messages after how many months.

Sent messages, such as e-mails and text messages (under Admin › Messaging › Messages), older than this number of months are deleted. See Messaging.

Importo imports

Key	purging.importo_imports
Type	Number of months
Default	3
Conditions	None
Account lookup	Hierarchy (top-level account first)

Purge importo imports after how many months.

Imports (the uploaded files and their results under Admin › Imports) older than this number of months are deleted, both those of the account and those of its users. The data that was imported (orders, products and so on) is not affected. See Imports.