How to add content to order confirmation email?

[Ralf Skirr]

Hi, I need to add some additional content to the order confirmation email sent to customer after successful checkout.

I tried adding my new content to
email_template_checkout.html

You can see the changed template here:
http://buck-store.de/email/email_template_checkout.html

But the email remains unchanged.

Where do I have to put the changes?

Thanks
Ralf

[Scott_C]

Hi Ralf, do you have the overrides system in place?

You may have to make the change in your custom template folder?

Cheers,

Scott.

[DrByte]

Hi Ralf, do you have the overrides system in place?

You may have to make the change in your custom template folder?

Cheers,

Scott.

Scott,
There are no "template overrides" for emails.
There are only language-specific overrides, as discussed near the bottom of this page here: http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p...lish_Languages

[Ralf Skirr]

I was wondering about the override too. Good to know that now.

Now I hope someone will have an idea what could cause the problem.

Ralf

[Scott_C]

Sorry, my mistake!

[DrByte]

Ralf,
Did you follow the link I posted, to set up your language-specific email templates?

[Ralf Skirr]

Ralf,
Did you follow the link I posted, to set up your language-specific email templates?

Oh really sorry, I missed that. Too many hours at the screen...
Checking it now.

Ralf

[Ralf Skirr]

Hm, still not working.

Suggested solution was:

HTML-formatted Email in non-English Languages

The english HTML emails are built from the files in the /email folder. If you have other languages, you'll need to create your own HTML email template files and put them into subfolders named according to the 2-letter language code.

ie:

* /email/de/
* /email/es/
* /email/fr/

Now I have it here:
http://buck-store.de/email/de/email_..._checkout.html

But after the purchase I still do not get this mail version.

Is it possible that I'm using the wrong file? Unfortunately there's no indication in the files when which file is used.

The email I want to change is the one sent to the customer after the purchase.

Ralf

[DrByte]

I'm guessing that the part you're not telling us is that the text you're looking for is missing in the text-only emails, and that you're not referring to HTML emails, despite only editing the HTML email templates.

In v1.3.x, those files in the /email/ folder are ONLY for HTML-formatted emails.
If you want to change TEXT-Only emails, you'll need to manually edit the many different language defines in the appropriate checkout language file.

In the (not yet released, no date set yet) v2.0, the text *and* html emails will be handled from the /email/ folder, making it a lot easier to edit your email content.

[Ralf Skirr]

Thanks for the info, I will try to figure that out, but I'm afraid it might be over my head.

I did not even know there are 2 versions of the emails available.
How would the system know whether to send text or html version?

Could I simply tell zencart to send the html instead of text version?

Ralf