Optimizing Performance
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Qloud Margin Control runs scripts on the transactions and records you tell it to. Most performance gains come from limiting that work to where it is genuinely needed and letting heavy jobs run in the background. The optimizations below are ordered from highest to lowest impact.
Every transaction with Enable Landed Cost Processing or Enable Sales Cost Processing ticked — and every line whose item is set to Track Landed/Sales Cost — triggers QMC scripts. Limiting these is the single biggest lever.
On item records, only set Track Sales Cost / a Landed Cost Category for items that actually carry costs.
On transaction types that never need costing, leave the Enable … body fields unticked.
A budget set to auto-apply is evaluated against every matching transaction. Tight filters (by item, transaction body field or transaction line field) mean QMC evaluates far fewer transactions and lines.
Add filters so budgets only target the relevant customers, vendors or items.
Avoid broad "apply to everything" budgets where a filtered budget would do.
For large transactions or mass updates, let QMC process in the background instead of inline:
Bulk Sales Cost processing hands work to a scheduled Map/Reduce job rather than processing on save.
Heavy operations are queued as Async Execution Requests and run in the background, so users are not blocked.
QMC runs nightly maintenance jobs — a rate-sync (aligning Item Receipt and Vendor Bill rates) and a record-alignment clean-up. Records may briefly appear out of sync until these jobs run.
If the optimizations above did not achieve the desired results, please email us at support@tradeqloud.com with a detailed explanation of the issue. Our team will reach out to you promptly.
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