Shipment Notification Mailings and Process

Use this mailing to send shipping notification emails to customers whose orders have been marked shipped and/or a summary email to specific email addresses.

Mailing Parameters

The following search and replace fields are supported for this mailing:

[varCustomerID] - The Customer ID.
[varEmail] - The customer's e-mail address.
[varFirstName] - The customer's first name.
[varContactName] - The customer's contact name.
[varCompanyName] - The customer company name, or the customer's first and last name if no company name is specified.
[varAuthorName] - The author name.
[varShipDate] - The shipping date.
[varShipMethod] - The shipping method (short name).
[varTrackingNo] - The shipping tracking number.
[varInvoiceNo] - The invoice number.
[varOrderDetails] - A placeholder where the HTML invoice will be inserted. The surrounding HTML should take this into account. This is only supported for HTML e-mails.

Mailing Sample Content

Body (HTML)

How to Send

This mailing is sent through the Shipping Notification Daily Process.

SOLO Server Shared and Dedicated URL authors will need to contact support@softwarekey.com to set up and enable this process.

Daily Process Input Xml Elements

The Input Xml for this process includes the following elements:

MailingID: The Mailing ID of the mailing to be sent. See Creating Custom Mailings for details on configuring custom mailings, and see above for the supported search and replace fields.
AdminEmail: Optional email address to send a summary notification email to. Note that multiple AdminEmail elements can be specified to send to multiple email addresses.
NotifyOnNoProcessingData: Optional True/False value which determines whether an administrative email notification is sent when no data was found to process. If omitted, the default is false.
BCCAdminEmails: Optional True/False value which determines whether the customer email notification is BCC'd to the AdminEmail emails.
AuthorID: Optional. When specified, the process only targets invoices for the given Author ID.
DaysBack: The number of days back from the current date to search on the invoice shipping date. In most cases, this should be set to one to pick up invoices shipped the previous day.