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Choosing an SMTP Relay Service for WooCommerce: Exploring Alternatives to SendGrid

In a recent Business Bloomer Club discussion, WooCommerce enthusiasts explored SMTP relay options for sending WordPress transactional emails. Many site owners use these services to ensure reliable email delivery, especially for critical WooCommerce notifications like order confirmations.

While SendGrid is a popular choice, its free plan caps daily emails at 100, which can be limiting for growing stores. This discussion dives into the alternatives to SendGrid, highlighting options with more generous limits and unique features for WooCommerce and WordPress users.

Transactional emails, such as order confirmations, password resets, and shipping notifications, play a vital role in online store operations. However, default WordPress email handling can be unreliable, with messages often ending up in spam or not delivered at all. SMTP relay services solve this problem by routing emails through dedicated servers designed for higher deliverability, ensuring these critical communications reach customers’ inboxes.

WooCommerce: Display Only Main Product Name in Order Confirmation Emails

In a recent Business Bloomer Club discussion, a member sought advice on simplifying WooCommerce order confirmation emails by displaying only the main product name, without any variation details.

WooCommerce typically includes both the product name and chosen variation attributes in order emails, which can sometimes be overwhelming and cluttered for customers.

To achieve a cleaner look, two WooCommerce filters can be applied to exclude these variation attributes.

Here’s the snippet that enables this adjustment.

Preventing Mass Email Sending After Order Status Deletion in WooCommerce

In a recent Business Bloomer Club discussion, a member sought advice on handling a sudden flood of 25,000 triggered emails after a client accidentally deleted a custom order status in WooCommerce.

This error caused orders to transition to default statuses, triggering an email for each one. Concerned about reconnecting the SMTP server and potentially sending all the emails, they were looking for ways to pause or prevent further email distribution.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to managing and preventing mass email sending after such incidents.

Customizing WooCommerce Shipping Address in Order Emails

In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a WooCommerce user asked about customizing the shipping address displayed in the order emails.

Specifically, they wanted to modify the address shown in the woocommerce_email_customer_details template. Here’s a guide on how to approach this customization.

How to Customize WooCommerce Order Emails Based on Product Attributes

In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a WooCommerce user wanted to customize order confirmation emails to display specific text based on whether an order was for pickup or delivery.

These options were set as product attributes, and the customization needed to change the “Thanks for shopping with us” message that appears after the Billing and Shipping details.

Here’s how to achieve this using WooCommerce filters to dynamically tailor the message in completed order emails.

Adjusting WooCommerce Order Emails to Reflect Updated Order Data

In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a developer working with the woocommerce_payment_complete hook encountered an issue where the “Processing order” email was sent with outdated order data.

While the order edits were correctly saved before external processing, WooCommerce sent the email using pre-edited data.

Here’s how to ensure that customers receive emails with accurate order details by customizing email triggers.

WooCommerce: Notify Admin For Product Reviews But Not For WordPress Comments

WooCommerce product reviews are, actually, WordPress comments.

When you install WordPress, comment notifications for admins are turned on. You can choose to receive emails for all new comments, or only for comments that require moderation (haven’t been approved yet).

The problem is that if your site gets a lot of spam comments, you might be bombarded with emails. Even with legitimate comments, constant notifications can be overwhelming.

So what if we disable WordPress comment notifications all together, while we keep them enabled for WooCommerce product reviews only?

This is what we’ll code today – enjoy!

WooCommerce: Add Content To “New Account” Welcome Email

First impressions matter, especially in ecommerce. When a customer creates an account on your WooCommerce store, the “Your {site_title} account has been created!” welcome email is your golden opportunity to solidify a positive connection.

However, the standard WooCommerce email might fall short:

Hi Rodolfo,

Thanks for creating an account on {site_title}. Your username is ____. You can access your account area to view orders, change your password, and more at: ___

Click here to set your new password.

This tutorial teaches you how to display additional content in the “welcome” email. You can then personalize greetings, showcase your brand story, and strategically introduce features like exclusive offers or product recommendations. By tailoring these emails, you’ll not only provide valuable information but also nurture customer loyalty and encourage them to explore your offerings further.

Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Send Default Order Email For Custom Status Transition

WooCommerce offers flexibility with custom order statuses, but email notifications can be limited. By default, in fact, WooCommerce triggers the “completed”, “processing”, “on-hold” and all the other default emails when the order status changes from X to Y as defined in the plugin code.

But what if you want to trigger the “Order Completed” email if the order status transitions from your custom order status to the “completed” one? Or what if you want to trigger the “Order On-hold” email beyond its default triggers?

This post unlocks a powerful technique: triggering a default order email for a custom order transition. Let’s see how it’s done!

WooCommerce: Send Cancelled Order Email to Customers As Well

As per the WooCommerce settings, “Cancelled order emails are sent to chosen recipient(s) when orders have been marked cancelled (if they were previously processing or on-hold)“.

What’s not 100% clear, however, is that this email notification goes out to admins only (and additional email addresses, if entered in the email settings). Which means, the customer receives no cancelled order notification. So, let’s change this, and let’s add the customer email address to the list of people that receives this WooCommerce email.

WooCommerce: Send Pending Order Email Automatically

The “Customer invoice / Order details” WooCommerce email notification is often used for manually sending payment requests to customers – it’s not automatically triggered like other WooCommerce emails. You can access it from the individual order screen under the “Order Actions” section.

In certain cases, however, you’d want to make it automatic. And I don’t know why it’s not like that by default. So, let’s fix it: if you create a manual order from the backend, set it as pending, add some products to it and “Save”, the email notification will trigger on its own thanks to the snippet below. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: “New Order” Email Recipient Based on Billing Country

The amazing thing about WooCommerce is that you can override any setting with a few lines of code. In today’s example we will try to code a solution where the “New Order” WooCommerce email will be delivered to a custom recipient based on the billing country.

This could be helpful when the WooCommerce store is managed by multiple people, and you want to make sure that order notifications only go to the right manager. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Disable “Password Changed” Administrator Emails

The “Password Changed” email is – actually – a WordPress core notification. It goes to admins when a WordPress user changes their password, and the email body says something along the lines of “Password changed for user: XYZ“.

So, why are we saying this email notification can be stopped if you run a WooCommerce website? Well, because WooCommerce provides us developers with a handy filter, that we can use for this exact reason.

For what concerns my own experience, I use Sendgrid to deliver Business Bloomer WordPress/WooCommerce emails – and on the free plan I have a limit of 100 daily emails. Which means I needed to find a way to reduce the number of email notifications.

Today we’ll cover the “Password Changed” one – let’s see how to stop administrators from getting them!

WooCommerce: How to Level Up Your Email Marketing

In today’s competitive ecommerce landscape, email marketing plays a crucial role in connecting with customers and driving business growth.

With WooCommerce, you already have a powerful platform at your disposal to send and manage transactional emails effectively. However, when you need to send targeted marketing emails, additional plugins may be necessary.

In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of optimizing your email marketing strategy using WooCommerce.

Whether you’re a seasoned email marketer or just getting started, we’ll explore actionable tips and practical techniques to help you level up your communication game.

So, let’s jump right in!

WooCommerce: Bulk Re-Send All Customer’s Completed Order Emails

This is quite an uncommon WooCommerce requirement, but especially for downloadable products the Completed Order email is such as important one – and customers may end up asking you to resend them all their past order emails.

This is an interesting snippet, as it features important functionalities: getting orders by billing email, looping through the results and re-triggering the Completed Order email whenever a specific admin URL parameter is posted. Enjoy!