| Option Name | Description | | Clear all Shopping Carts | This will clear the contents of any saved customer shopping carts older than the age selected. If you have changed prices on your store or discontinued items, you may wish to do this to ensure that customers do not check out with products/prices they should not get because they added them before they change. |
| Clear all Wish Lists | This will clear the contents of any saved customer wish lists older than the age selected. If you have changed prices on your store or discontinued items, you may wish to do this to ensure that customers do not check out with products/prices they should not get because they added them before they change. |
| Clear all Gift Registries | This will clear the contents of any saved customer gift registries older than the age selected. If you have changed prices on your store or discontinued items, you may wish to do this to ensure that customers do not check out with products/prices they should not get because they added them before they change. |
| Erase Credit Cards/eCheck from Order Records | This option will remove the (encrypted) CC information from order records older than the date selected. This information is generally not required after the initial purchase is made, so storing it presents an unnecessary risk. |
| Erase SQL Log | If SQL logging is enabled ( ), this option will clear the contents of the SQLLog table, to prevent it from getting too large. These records are not necessary for the operation of the store, they just provide an audit record if necessary. |
| Clear Profiles Older Than (version 9 ONLY) | This option clears the customer Profile which stores the cookie data and site settings for customers. Although it is generally safe to delete all Profile data, it is best to retain the last 30 days. |
| Clear Product Views Older Than | This option clears the customer product views, which are saved for uses such as dynamic related products. |
| Invalidate All User Logins | If this box is checked when you click Go, all admins and customers will be forced to log into the site on their next visit, even if they had set it to keep them logged in. |
| Purge Anon Customers | This will clear the records of 'anonymous' customers - customers who performed an action on your site that caused a temporary record to be created for them (added to the cart, chose a locale, etc) but never registered or checked out. These records are not necessary and clearing them will not hurt the store. |
| Erase Credit Card/eCheck info from Address records | If your site is storing credit card numbers, customers who have allowed their information to be stored will have their CC info in their Address records, completely separate from any orders they've placed. This option will clear that information out of your database. |
| Purge all records that are marked as Deleted | Many of the 'Delete' buttons in the store admin site do not actually permanently remove the selected object (products, customers, etc). Those things are just marked as 'deleted' in the database, and no longer appear in the admin site. This is so that they can be recovered in the future if necessary. If you wish to permanently remove those records, this option will do so. |
| Tune Indexes | This option performs basic maintenance on your database, which can increase site performance. |
| Save Settings | This option saves your selections on this page, so that you can quickly perform the same tasks next time maintenance needs to be run. |