Email templates in thirty bees

[the.rampage.rado]

Hi forum,

I'm 'working' on a small module that swaps the default email templates with new custom ones that can be configured in BO - for v1 - only colors and email logo, more additions later. It also detects missing email templates during sending, so the merchant can later add them. The idea is to have granular per-shop control over the styling and the theme used. We would have the opportunity to have multiple themes and use them simultaneously for different shops.


What current templates do you use? Are you stuck (as I am) to the default ones, or have you created/adapted the code to follow your FO design more closely?

Can you add screenshots?

[DRMasterChief]

A good idea, especially if you use multishops. Then your idea/module is actually absolutely necessary. 
For multi-shops, I have to honestly say that I would prefer to have two of my own installations.

I support the idea (but we don't have a multishop).
For us, we use the standard email themes, but some of them have already been heavily modified to suit our needs.

[the.rampage.rado]

Yes, the idea is generally targeted to multistore installations so we can achieve better coherence with FO branding and not use style-neutral templates.

But it can also be useful for merchants using various modules from separate developers to track, detect, and unify them in one style. For example, currently my revws emails are quite different from my core ones. Yes, you can do that when using one shop by changing the module email template, but you have to keep a map of the modules that have emails and track this on every module update. Using the module, you will create a module email template override and use it instead of the standard one.

Can you give some screenshots of the empty templates you use?

The inspiration for this module came from one long forgotten one my theme developer supplied, but it is no longer packed with the theme, I even failed to find it in old backups of the template so no logic is shared at all.

[DRMasterChief]

In that case, screenshots wouldn't be helpful. We have them as standard and have only really integrated the logo well. By "adjustments," I meant technical ones, like placeholders or modified uses for standard themes (such as notifications about partial deliveries).

We use a third-party theme for the shop and the relatively clean standard emails are quite suitable for it (thankfully).

[the.rampage.rado]

I hope I have something to show in the recent days.