Adding info. to order confirmation email - URGENT!

Hi all!

I REALLY hope this is just me being a dumb brunette not being able to find this.

When people order, they get an automatic order confirmation email with the order details, order number, their details etc.

I have four payment options, COD, cheque, paypal and bank transfer. Bank transfer is the most popular by far BUT (this is the problem), I have given my bank details under the bank transfer option when the customer selects the payment method, but then they never see it again and although I have put a 'payment and shipping' info box on my main page, they still aren't finding the details and I keep getting emails asking for my bank account number.

What I need to do is somehow get my bank account details into the order confirmation email that the customer receives, but I have looked everywhere and can't find how to write into that message. Could someone please post a path (is that what it is called?) so that I can find my way to this?

Thanks in advance for your help on this!
Best wishes,
Jo

You can HARD CODE this in the email template that is used to send order confirmation.

In your ROOT DIRECTORY where your zencart is installed, you will see a folder called:

email

Inside this folder is a file:

email_template_checkout.html

Open it in a Plain Text Editor, such as NOTEPAD++ or CRIMSON EDITOR

Find the lines (around line 99) that begin:

        <td class="payment-detail">$PAYMENT_METHOD_DETAIL</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>

Then directly under the <tr> tag... add the following, adjusting the text according to your needs (do not erase the <br /> tags):

        <td class="content">For customers paying by Bank Transfer<br />Bank Name: XYZ BANK<br />SORT CODE: 40 04 09<br />ACCOUNT NUMBER: 12345 67890</td>
      </tr>

So it now looks like:

        <td class="payment-detail">$PAYMENT_METHOD_DETAIL</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td class="content">For customers paying by Bank Transfer<br />Bank Name: XYZ BANK<br />SORT CODE: 40 04 09<br />ACCOUNT NUMBER: 12345 67890</td>
      </tr>

SAVE the file to its original directory

DO A TEST ORDER TO YOUR TEST CUSTOMER (That's normally YOU!)

Remember, there is no over-ride for this, so if you UPGRADE your ZC later, you will have to effect this edit again.

There is actually something simple you can do, without hard-coding the email template as described above - you could just change the title of "bank transfer" (in payment options) to include the details.

Just check the folder "includes/languages/english/modules/payment" under the root directory of your Zen Cart store.
I do not use the bank transfer module, so I don't know which file you should open, but it should probably be something like "banktransfer.php" or "bank.php" - you should know it by the file name.

In this file, the first "define" line (or one of the first one) should start something like this:

 define('MODULE_PAYMENT_BANKTRANSFER_TEXT_TITLE', 'Bank Transfer');

(it may not be exactly "BANKTRANSFER", again, depends on the module, but the capital letters section should end with _TEXT_TITLE - this is the line you're looking for)

So just change the final portion, 'Bank Transfer', to something like 'Bank Transfer - [your details here, account number etc]'.

This way it will automatically be included in the confirmation email, as the title of the payment module is taken straight from this file.

Good luck..

Bodyjewelrystores suggestion is the "more appropriate" route, and I debated whether to advise this method, or to do the hard-code I originally advised.

However, from your original post, you seem to be a "newbie",

Could someone please post a path (is that what it is called?)

...so if you're struggling with these fundamental concepts editing the php may be challenging.

Either method will give you the desired result - as long as you know what you're doing... Using the PHP route, you can also embed HTML tags such as <br /> to give proper structure to the message. Also, editing the DEFINE in the php will result in the bank details only being shown in the e-mail, when that payment option is selected by the shopper.

this worked well for me

[quote=microbe]

in the file includes/classes/order.php on or about line 955 find:

$html_msg['PAYMENT_METHOD_DETAIL'] = (is_object($GLOBALS[$_SESSION['payment']]) ? $GLOBALS[$payment_class]->title : PAYMENT_METHOD_GV );

add after it the following line obviously replacing items your details:

if ($GLOBALS[$payment_class]->title == "Direct Bank Deposit"){ $html_msg['PAYMENT_METHOD_DETAIL'].= "<div style='text-align:left'><br><strong><span style='color:#FF0000'>Bank details</style></strong><br>Bank: ******<br>Account name: ******<br>BSB: ******<br>Account: ******<br>Reference: CID-" . $_SESSION['customer_id'] . "</div>";}

I preferred to have bank details left aligned hence the <div>. Also highlighted the header in red.

The reference at the end is so that I can match the customer to the payment. I would much rather include the invoice number but I couldn't figure how to pick it up on the checkout page so customer ID will do. Didn't want to spend any more time on it. May come back to that.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86654

Great! thanks for the heads up. It is really important to see more updates though. Nice posts! I am able to reach out to a lot of people with a lot of information for my research. Thanks for the heads up. I will also share these with my friends.

Hotmail