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ipixel

Posted: 05 May 2010 01:42 AM

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Is there any sample Email Notification templates that anyone is willing to share for Admin and Customer notification?

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Chris Newton

Posted: 05 May 2010 02:06 AM

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I can share mine. Hang on….
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ok, I’m back with the templates.

Admin (nothing fancy here)

CartThrob was purchased. All rejoice. 

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="orders" entry_id="ORDER_ID"}
    {title}
    {order_items:table}
{/exp:weblog:entries} 

Customer

<p>Thanks so much for your recent purchase of CartThrob!</p>

<p>blah blah </p>

<p>Basic Order Data:</p>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="orders" entry_id="ORDER_ID" show_future_entries="yes"}
    <p>{title}</p>
    {order_items}
        <p>{embed="cart/.email_notification_serial_number" author_id="{author_id}"}</p>
        <p>Product: {item:title}</p>
        <p>Quantity: {item:quantity}</p>
    {/order_items}
{/exp:weblog:entries} 

The embed used in the customer template

{exp:weblog:entries limit="1" dynamic="off" author_id="{embed:author_id}" weblog="purchased_items"}License Number: {purchased_item_license}{/exp:weblog:entries} 

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Posted: 05 May 2010 02:09 AM

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The embed is kinda technically wrong… it sends the most recent purchased item license number. Realistically though, it’d be unusual for someone to be able to order AGAIN before this email gets sent out.

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Pete Eveleigh

Posted: 06 May 2010 09:03 AM

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Here’s mine. Although I’m working on a tidier one at the moment, just waiting for client sign off.

Note {global-currency-symbol} is my own Global Template Variable and nothing to do with CartThrob. Replace with the symbol of your choice!

<p><img src="http://myshop.co.uk/images/logo.jpg}" alt="Shop logo"></p>
<p>Thank you for placing an order at the MyShop Web Shop.</p>

<h2>Order details</h2>
<hr>

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="orders" entry_id="ORDER_ID" show_future_entries="yes" status="not closed"}
 {if no_results}
 <p>Something went wrong, no order data found</p>
 {/if}
 <p>Order Number: {title}</p>

 <table width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
       <thead>
        <tr>
         <th align="left">Product code</th>
         <th align="left">Item name</th>
         <th align="left">Quantity</th>
         <th align="left">Price each</th>
         <th align="left">Subtotal</th>
        </tr>
       </thead>
       <tbody>

         {order_items}
         <tr class="itemrow">
         <td></td>
         <td>{item:title}</td>
            <td>{item:quantity}</td>
         <td>{global-currency-symbol}{item:price}</td>
         <td>{exp:cartthrob:arithmetic operator="*" num1="{item:quantity}" num2="{item:price}"} </td>
         </tr>
         {/order_items}

        <tr>
         <td colspan="4" style="text-align:right">Subtotal</td><td>{global-currency-symbol}{order_subtotal}</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
         <td colspan="4" style="text-align:right">Tax</td><td>{global-currency-symbol}{order_tax}</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
         <td colspan="4" style="text-align:right">Shipping</td><td>
          {if order_shipping=="0.00"}
           FREE
          {if:else}
           {global-currency-symbol}{order_shipping}
          {/if}
         </td>
        </tr>
        <tr class="total">
         <td colspan="4" style="text-align:right">Total</td><td>{global-currency-symbol}{order_total}</td>
        </tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="5"><b>Additional Notes</b><br>{order_notes}</td></tr>
       </tbody>
      </table>

 {if order_coupon}
      <h4>Coupons</h4>
      <p>A coupon was used for this order: {order_coupon}</p>
 {/if}
            
 <h4>Shipping Address</h4>
 <p>The order will be sent to:</p>
      
 {if order_shipping_address!=""}
  <p class="shippingaddress">
  {order_shipping_first_name} {order_shipping_last_name}<br />
  {order_shipping_address}<br />
  {if order_shipping_address2}{order_shipping_address2}<br>{/if}
  {order_shipping_city}<br />
  {order_shipping_state}
  {order_shipping_zip}
  </p>
 {if:else}
  <p class="shippingaddress">
  {order_billing_first_name} {order_billing_last_name}<br />
  {order_billing_address}<br />
  {if order_billing_address2}{order_billing_address2}<br>{/if}
  {order_billing_city}<br />
  {order_billing_state}
  {order_billing_zip}
  </p>
      {/if}

{/exp:weblog:entries}
<hr>
<p>Your order will be despatched as soon as possible. If you have any questions regarding this order, please contact our UK office on 01234 567 890 or email orders@myshop.co.uk quoting your order number. 

[ Edited: 10 May 2010 06:43 AM by Pete Eveleigh ]

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ipixel

Posted: 10 May 2010 06:39 AM

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Thanks Pete

Mind telling me what {global-currency-symbol} is? I can’t find any reference to it in the tag docs.

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Posted: 10 May 2010 06:42 AM

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Oh sorry. That’s a global template variable I set up. It’s so I can re-deploy the same site for multiple countries/currencies and only have to change that variable so my templates get updated.

I did this a while back before CartThrob had the ability to specify the currency symbol in the control panel.

I’ll update the code to get rid of that.

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ipixel

Posted: 10 May 2010 07:12 AM

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Thanks for that. Is the {order_notes} field another custom field for the Orders weblog?

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Posted: 10 May 2010 07:21 AM

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Yes, that’s correct.

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ipixel

Posted: 10 May 2010 12:03 PM

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Am I missing something here? I had set the Customer Email Notifications to HTML, but anything received by my email client is showing up the html, head, styles etc etc as plain text rather than rendering the HTML

If I don’t have the <style> tag in the html head, I assume that we need to do inline styling for everything?

Thanks
Brendan

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Posted: 10 May 2010 12:08 PM

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I have actually just finished fixing one of these.

You’ll have to just include what is in your body and put all the styles inline.

I don’t know why but something about the way EE creates an HTML email means that stuff that should work with HTML mail doesn’t actually get delivered as HTML.

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Posted: 10 May 2010 12:14 PM

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Ah crap. At least it means it will probably have a better chance of looking better in Outlook using in-line styling. Shame it doesn’t have the same sort of engine that Campaign Monitor uses where it transfers your stylesheet into inline styles on the fly.

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Posted: 10 May 2010 12:35 PM

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It should be ok in Outlook with styles in thead. I think it’s just EE wrapping/encoding the email in some way. I don’t really know enough about how EE does email as I normally use an external mail class to handle sending mail from a website.

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