Automatically cancel magento 2 pending orders after a specified amount of time?

Question

We found that we sometimes run out of stock/inventory due to orders pending payment. Is there a way to "release" those stock/inventory after a specified amount of time, automatically, without us having to check regularly for orders pending payment and cancelling manually?

Answer 1

One of the solutions is to create a cron job that will cancel the orders left waiting for payment X hour or days after they were created.
That way your stocks would be updated.

Here you can find explanations and examples on how to configure and create cron tasks :
- https://www.maximehuran.fr/en/create-a-cron-job-with-magento-2/
- https://www.atwix.com/magento-2/setting-up-cron-jobs/
- http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-cron.html

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