WooCommerce: Hide “Thanks for shopping with us” @ Emails

WooCommerce emails come with the following hard-coded (argh!) greetings: ‘Thanks for shopping with us.‘, ‘Thanks for reading.‘, ‘We look forward to seeing you soon.‘, ‘We look forward to fulfilling your order soon.‘, ‘Thanks!‘, ‘We hope to see you again soon.‘ based on the specific email.

While having these greetings in the WooCommerce customer email footer may look nice and friendly, you should have the freedom to remove or edit them.

So, you have two choices: doing that via the email settings, or by “translating” those strings via PHP. Enjoy!

WooCommerce Customer Completed Email: hiding the “Thanks for shopping with us.” greeting

WooCommerce Options: Edit or Remove “Thanks for shopping with us.” and other greetings @ WooCommerce Customer Order Emails

Just go to WooCommerce > Settings > Emails and open a given email, then delete or change the “Additional Content” input field value:

PHP Snippet: Hide “Thanks for shopping with us.” and other greetings @ WooCommerce Customer Order Emails

/**
 * @snippet       Hide Greetings @ WooCommerce Emails
 * @how-to        Get CustomizeWoo.com FREE
 * @author        Rodolfo Melogli
 * @compatible    WooCommerce 4.6
 * @donate $9     https://businessbloomer.com/bloomer-armada/
 */ 

add_filter( 'gettext', 'bbloomer_translate_woocommerce_strings_emails', 999 );

function bbloomer_translate_woocommerce_strings_emails( $translated ) {
   // Get strings and translate them into empty strings
   $translated = str_ireplace( 'Thanks for shopping with us.', '', $translated );
   $translated = str_ireplace( 'We hope to see you again soon.', '', $translated );
   return $translated;
}

Where to add this snippet?

You can place PHP snippets at the bottom of your child theme functions.php file (delete "?>" if you have it there). CSS, on the other hand, goes in your child theme style.css file. Make sure you know what you are doing when editing such files - if you need more guidance, please take a look at my free video tutorial "Where to Place WooCommerce Customization?"

Does this snippet (still) work?

Please let me know in the comments if everything worked as expected. I would be happy to revise the snippet if you report otherwise (please provide screenshots). I have tested this code with Storefront theme, the WooCommerce version listed above and a WordPress-friendly hosting on PHP 7.3.

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6 thoughts on “WooCommerce: Hide “Thanks for shopping with us” @ Emails”

Felipe
April 6, 2021

Hi there,

Does anyone know how do I hide the supplier name from my customer’s email? I’ve purchased the dropshipping paid plug-in from Woo a few months ago however every time I send emails to my customers either notes or purchasing completed via Woo the information of my supplier is on the body of that email as part of the description of that order.

I will appreciate it if somebody can help me with that.

I can’t provide a link, but I can show you a screenshot of what the customers seeing on their emails.

Thanks for your time!

F

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  April 20, 2021
  
  Hey Felipe, did you ask the plugin developer?
  
  Reply
Boris
September 2, 2019

I just tested this snippet, and it’s not working for me. Does it need updating?

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  September 6, 2019
  
  Not really, as gettext is a WordPress function. Are you translating the correct, full, complete strings?
  
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KoolPal
February 21, 2019

Hi Rodolfo,

Thanks for this. Couple of queries.

1. I read somewhere that gettext is very resource intensive. Please share some thoughts on this. Will the above code make everything slow?
2. This code seems to look for the phrase everywhere. Is there something that can be added to restrict this translation to specific emails?

Thanks

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1. Rodolfo Melogli
  February 27, 2019
  
  It’s fine if not used too much 🙂 Also, you can pass the “textdomain” to the gettext function and e.g. only look for “woocommerce” strings. Hope this helps
  
  Reply

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