I want my confirmation emails to look like this

everything in the cart is set to HTML (as far as I know). I'd really like the emails to look like the attached.

Adding those graphic lines to the html e-mail might be difficult. Or, did you mean you wanted to take out the information by editing one of the e-mail templates in the emails directory? Hard to tell.

I'm confused too.
I can't tell what you're asking for.

If you want scribbled-out brush-strokes all over your emails, I don't think your customers would find them very valuable.

But that's all I can gather from the image you posted.

Common guys, you're being obtuse.

If I were me (and on a good day I am) I would assume he pinked out those parts because it's a real email and he wants to hide the real information on it -- for reasons of privacy and also because it's irrelevant. So what he's asking for is a way to edit the template used for emails so it looks like that one, with the boxes and borders and columns and so on.

To do that, OP, you need to edit one or more of the email templates in your_ZC_folder/email. Creating email templates is an art, not a science. Google for advice and then apply what you learn to those templates.

Rob

I would love to see any resources/links that get dug up regarding email customizations.

I currently use Mailbeez email Marketing modules and would like to make ALL of the emails coming out of ZenCart a little more consistent ie closer match to Mailbeez emails than default Zen Cart email.

Mailbeez uses Smarty templating, but I don't think there is any reason why I couldn't hack up the default emails to resemble them.

Rob,
if you'll review my post, I did tell the op about the templates. And I STILL don't know for sure what they are after.

Rob,
I'm with dbltoe here.
The image posted looks just like the built-in HTML-formatted order confirmation that comes out-of-the-box ... except for the blanked-out personal information. As far as ZC v1.2 thru v1.5 anyway.

So, the question remains: what exactly is it that they're saying they want to change? Their subject says "I want my confirmation emails to look like this". If the picture they posted is from THEIR OWN site, then they've failed to post what they actually want the emails to look like compared to what they already do now.

However, maybe the image they shared isn't from their own site at all, and thus their question is far more basic and would be better worded like: "how do I turn on HTML emails from my site?" ... and that's a simple switch in Admin->Configuration->Email Options->Send MIME HTML emails=true.

My html order emails on 1.5 don't look like that.

Sort of, but not the colored boxes, borders, etc helping to define sections.

Limitless:

My html order emails on 1.5 don't look like that.

Sort of, but not the colored boxes, borders, etc helping to define sections.
Mine do. Not sure why yours don't.

Mine don't look like that either, which is why I replied that way. Now I'm going to have to find out why not. :shocking:

Rob

And now we do a adaptation of the Ferris Bueller movie.

:unsure:

Mumzie? Mumzie?

Seriously, Don't look anything like that, mine are all white.

Not a bad thing, but not the pretty boxes that ecommerce users are used to at this point.

Amazing how much chatter one person's incomplete post can generate ... despite never hearing from them again after their first post.

In think the OP's situation is that they don't have HTML emails turned on, or their customers have TEXT selected, or both.

But if you're interested in changing the look of your HTML-formatted emails, simply change them yourself. Oddly enough they're found in the /email/ folder.

Sorry to spur such responses. I thought I'd turned on the HTML email switches in two places - and the emails that are being generated are text only.

I received the email pictured - when I made a purchase from another zen-cart site. I liked the look of it, so I thought I would ask the experts here how to generate the "more professional" looking email template.

I apologize that I didn't answer right away - I was away from my desk with some personal stuff...

Anyway - wasn't trying to upset anyone - just trying to ask the experts. Sorry for the controversy...

I did find one more switch setting - and now I've got the emails coming out in HTML. Onward to formatting. it was the MIME HTML switch - if anyone else made the "beginner's" mistake I made.
Thanks for the input, gang. When I have the formatting the way I want, I'll share my lessons here.

I try also and in version 1.50 doesn't work, i did the same steps in 1.39 version and works fine, i was able to send html emails

gpone12:

I try also and in version 1.50 doesn't work, i did the same steps in 1.39 version and works fine, i was able to send html emailsStrange, since the email infrastructure didn't change between 139 and 150.

My 150 sends html emails just like it did in 139, without making any special changes of any kind.

Yes, the sarcasm in these forums gets a bit thick from some 'experts,' but I suppose we can leave forum etiquette for another forum post ;)

I too have the problem where I can turn on html e-mails in 1.50, but there are still coming out in plain text. In addition to changing the Config>E-Mail>Mime settings, I also changed the Config>E-Mail>Admin Format (to HTML). While the former seemed to do nothing, the latter brought up my html editor in the composition window (Tools>Send E-Mail), although e-mails sent this way were still received in plain text. Neither the order confirmation nor the "manual" e-mail triggered the standard message, "show images," in my e-mail browser.

I should also add that html e-mails worked without problem in 1.38, and continues to work on a site that has been upgraded from 1.38 to 1.50, but the problem I am having now is in a 'virgin' install of 1.50 - Does that make a difference?