Custom checkout cart – How to send email after successful checkout
Recently I have been working on a custom checkout page for one of our clients in Sweden. I had some trouble figuring out how to send default Magento order email with all of the order info. After an...
View ArticleCustom Transactional Emails
Since transactional emails are very important for the process of online shopping you need to have them set up just the you want them and the default templates just don’t cut it. You need your own logo,...
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Magento custom emails
Ever wanted to “just send the email” using the built in email features in Magento? Ever hit the wall trying to do something with Magento? OK, I know the answer to the other one, just had to ask ....
View ArticleMagento – Custom email contact form with notification system
In this article, hopefully, you will learn how to create a module that uses its own controller, programatically creates a block based on core template and assigned via file, handles form submission and...
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Custom email server (transport) with Magento
Magento has quite interesting email sending capabilities. However, those are more in terms of email templates then selecting a non-built in email server. Sometimes, your web hosting might have separate...
View ArticleHow to disable email sending when programatically creating an order in Magento
Here is a little snippet of code that can come in handy if you are like me handling a task of programatically creating an order in Magento. My issue was that I had to disable emails beeing sent out to...
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Magento L.E.S.S.
Sometimes its all about title, right?! So, what is LESS? Well, its my fancy acronym for something utterly simply but very practical. It stands for (L)ocalhost (E)mail (S)erver (S)imulator. Basically...
View ArticleProblems with Contact form
Couple of days ago I had a problem with contact form not working in Magento Professional 1.9.0.0. Magento was throwing error “Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later” after submitting...
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Emulate store in Magento
Magento 1.5 introduced very interesting piece of code that enables easy store emulation when programming, Emulation model a.k.a. Mage_Core_Model_App_Emulation class. This is how it’s done:...
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No, this mail is not Junk, or how to properly configure Magento mailing
First of all I’m not really a Magento developer nor its power user or any sort of user for that matter. My primary function is server administration and configuration for hosted web sites, Magento...
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Installation and configuration of local Mail server for Windows (hMail Server)
This is not exactly Magento related post, but it might be useful when you are setting up a dev environment on your local machine. There are many good and free mail servers out there which are...
View ArticlePrint message in all languages using single store, date on specified...
Did you maybe try to print one message in “all” languages on a single page? First, let me tell you when I needed to do that. Recently I needed to develop functionality that will send some “custom”...
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How many email addresses do you have for your dev Magento site
I have few but all points to one email account. This article will be short also but this neat trick will help lots webapp developers in development process, especially when they need to create several...
View ArticleProduct Stock Alerts (not) working
Recently one of our clients had contacted us and said that ProductAlert functionality doesn’t work any more. After I investigated the situation I saw that last email regarding to Stock Alerts was sent...
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Remind customers to place their first order in Magento
Sometimes customers need a little encouragement to place their first order after creating an account. There are many reasons this is the case, for example customers may forget to bookmark your site,...
View ArticleDisabling Magento’s default newsletter transactional emails
Not everyone is satisfied with Magento’s options regarding newsletters so they choose to use some 3rd party service (like MailChimp). In that case it might be a good idea to disable Magento’s default...
View ArticleMagento’s transactional eMails do-s and don’t-s
Editing and styling Magento’s transactional eMails and eMails in general can be a real headache. There are numerous reasons for that, for example the number of eMail clients available that have their...
View ArticleExtending “Contact us” functionality in Magento
One of the most important aspects of any business is customer support. It is important to enable your customers to easily reach to you if they need to contact you. Out of the box Magento offers nice...
View ArticleEnabling Multi-part MIME Emails in Magento
This article will explain steps needed for altering Magento transactional emails in order to support Multi-part mime emails. Which means that those emails will support both Text and HTMl versions of...
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