Updating Sales Emails – Magento

A poor feature of Magento, is how the sales emails are set up. Unless you know exactly what to do, you’re stuck with a bunch of emails that say ‘thanks for your purchase from the Magento Demo Store’ alongside the Magento logo.

I’m pretty sure that most stores will want their own logo and their own shop name mentioned in sales emails, why there isn’t a script to do this, I have no idea. Anyway, the simple way around it is just to update them all yourself, it doesn’t take too long.

Download the folder from app/locale/en_US/template/email

There’s about 30 or so files to change. You’ll want to update the telephone number, any references to Demo Store, the dummy email address and obviously the logo. With the logo I usually change it right at the root level by going to:

skin/frontend/default/yourtheme/images/logo_email.gif

Now when you test your sales and customer info emails, they should all read correctly. There’s one thing you should note however… this is not an update-proof solution. Make sure you keep a copy of it to overwrite an updates. There’s a permanent way of changing emails in the admin area but it takes much, much longer. For the sake of 20mins, I’d do this way every time.