Adobe Commerce best practice: enable asynchronous orders processing

This article provides best practice for configuration settings that can help improve checkout performance in case of large number of simultaneously created orders.

Affected products and versions

• Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure, all supported versions
• Adobe Commerce on-premises, all supported versions

Best practice

If the number of simultaneously placed orders in your store is large enough and has a negative impact on checkout performance, we recommend enabling asynchronous orders processing.

To enable the setting:

Method 1: Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure and Adobe Commerce on-premises (if deploy mode is PRODUCTION - which is the default setting on Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure as DEFAULT or DEVELOPER are not allowed): Run php bin/magento config:set dev/grid/async_indexing 1.

Method 2: Adobe Commerce on-premises only (only when the deploy mode set to DEFAULT OR DEVELOPER): Enable the Asynchronous indexing option in the Commerce Admin under Stores > Settings > Configuration > Advanced > Developer > Grid Settings > Asynchronous indexing.

Then flush cache by running php bin/magento cache:flush or go to the Commerce Admin under System > Tools > Cache Management.

Related reading

• Best practice Adobe Commerce order placement performance in our support knowledge base.
• Configuration paths reference in our developer documentation.