Common customizations for the Order Receipt email


	Common customizations for the Order Receipt email
	Last Edited - 03/4/2013 4:25pm PST
	Category Path - Shopping Cart Software Components > Administration Area > Design > FAQs & Tutorials

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I'm customizing my Order Receipt email message, and I want to edit it to include any Checkout Fields and Part Numbers associated with our orders. Can this be done?

It most certainly can! These items can be applied to your Order Receipt using simple QuickCode Tags. This is a request we receive quite commonly, as well as for adding other information to the receipt. This article will provide the QuickCode Tags needed to implement additional information into the Order Receipt template.

Locating the Order Receipt template

To locate and edit the Order Receipt, as well as the other various Store-Generated Email Messages:

1. In your Administration Area, locate [Design > Email Messages].
2. Open up the Order Receipt (SID 100) in the editor, by clicking on the SID or

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3. You will notice there is a Plain Text and HTML Version of the message. Any changes made will need to be made to both versions.
4. Once changes have been made, click "Save Changes".

Customer Fields

Displaying the title, description and value of Custom Customer Fields associated with an order within the Order Receipt email:

{CUSTOMER-FIELD-BLOCK-BEGIN}
TITLE: {CUSTOMER-FIELD-TITLE}
DESCRIPTION: {CUSTOMER-FIELD-DESCRIPTION}
FIELD VALUE: {CUSTOMER-FIELD-VALUE}
{CUSTOMER-FIELD-BLOCK-END}

Checkout Fields

Displaying the title, description and value of Custom Checkout Fields associated with an order within the Order Receipt email:

{CHECKOUT-FIELD-BLOCK-BEGIN}
TITLE: {CHECKOUT-FIELD-TITLE}
DESCRIPTION: {CHECKOUT-FIELD-DESCRIPTION}
FIELD VALUE: {CHECKOUT-FIELD-VALUE}
{CHECKOUT-FIELD-BLOCK-END}

Other information

Other commonly sought out information to include in the Order Receipt email can be viewed below.

Customer phone numbers:
{CUSTOMER-PHONE-AREA-CODE}{CUSTOMER-PHONE-NUMBER}

Product part number:
{PRODUCT-PART-NUMBER}

block tags

The {PRODUCT-PART-NUMBER} tag must be placed between the {RECEIPT-PRODUCT-BLOCK-BEGIN} and {RECEIPT-PRODUCT-BLOCK-END} block tags