Error Message: One or more indexers are invalid. Make sure your Magento cron job is running.

[PresentCompany]

Hi all!

I'm a total newbie to Magento!

I'm getting the above error message, and have done enough research to know that the solution is confusing me greatly. I wondered if someone could give me a merchants answer to this problem?

We are wanting to switch to Magento, and like it so far. But I'm starting to worry it's a bit too complicated for us.

We are using a Linux hosting package through GoDaddy which included the one click install option. GoDaddy uses cPanel! I've read that it involved running a cron job, and other command prompts but I have no idea where to start or where to put anything.

A dummies step by step guide for where I need to go and what I need to put in would be amazing!

I'm willing to learn, and don't want to give up on Magento just yet!

Much appreciated, Natalie.

[ShoaibRehman89]

@PresentCompany

Hi Natalie, 

Please follow this link http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-index.html to get an understanding of Magento indexes work. 

FYI - if you are looking for just a quick solution then you need to run the following in your server shell. 

php bin/magento indexer:reindex