{"id":11120,"date":"2019-02-15T17:55:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/blog\/ferien-karlsruhe-sales-day-rush-handled-smoothly\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:13:41","slug":"ferien-karlsruhe-sales-day-rush-handled-smoothly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/blog\/ferien-karlsruhe-sales-day-rush-handled-smoothly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferien-Karlsruhe Sales Day Rush Handled Smoothly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As happens every year in February, the new offers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stja.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stadtjugendausschuss<\/a> are made available for purchase. One slight difference this year was that only the top seller (Karlopolis) was bookable; the other new vacation activities will be offered one week later. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, approximately 5,000 visitors tried to reserve their desired vacation spots almost simultaneously (the offers were released at 6:00 PM), which overwhelmed the servers for a while. After forty-five minutes and boosted performance, all orders were successfully processed. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lessons were learned from those mistakes, however. Consequently, the following measures were implemented this year: <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Product pages were made <em>cacheable<\/em>; information regarding whether spots are still available is loaded asynchronously via Ajax.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A queue was integrated into the ordering process: WooCommerce no longer attempts to process incoming orders immediately. Instead, after clicking &#8220;Order now,&#8221; they are placed in a queue and sent for processing in &#8220;batches of 30.&#8221; Only then are the orders converted into reservations and customers receive a confirmation email. This function allows the load to be significantly throttled when nearly 2,000 people attempt to book Karlopolis activities simultaneously at exactly 6:00 PM.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naturally, system performance was also scaled up for the sales day, to approximately ten times that of a normal business day.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"blog-angebot wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do you want to offer a vacation program online?<\/strong> The vacation platform is in use in Karlsruhe and Mannheim. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/software\/software-for-municipalities\/the-vacation-platform-for-municipalities\/\">More about the vacation platform for municipalities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As happens every year in February, the new offers from the Stadtjugendausschuss are made available for purchase. One slight difference this year was that only the top seller (Karlopolis) was bookable; the other new vacation activities will be offered one week later. Last year, approximately 5,000 visitors tried to reserve their desired vacation spots almost \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[815,981,1884],"tags":[1402,2017,819],"class_list":["post-11120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hosting","category-programming","category-showcase","tag-managed-wordpress-hosting","tag-woocommerce","tag-wordpress"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11122,"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions\/11122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saasweb.agency\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}