from django.apps import AppConfig class InvoicesConfig(AppConfig): name = "invoices" def ready(self): from django_apscheduler.jobstores import DjangoJobStore from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler from . import scheduler sched = BackgroundScheduler() sched.add_jobstore(DjangoJobStore(), "default") sched.add_job( scheduler.mark_overdue, trigger="cron", hour=1, minute=0, id="mark_overdue", replace_existing=True, ) sched.start()