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Zencart sends order confirmation emails, but by default they might not have enough information.

To add some extra info to emails that your customers receive, look through incudes/modules/classes/order/php and around line 863 you'll find these fantastic instructions:

/* START: ADD MY CUSTOM DETAILS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
 * 1. calculate/prepare custom information to be added to this product entry in order-confirmation, perhaps as a function call to custom code to build a serial number etc:                                                                                                   
 *   Possible parameters to pass to custom functions at this point:                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 *     Product ID ordered (for this line item): $this->products[$i]['id']                                                                                                                                                                                                     
 *     Quantity ordered (of this line-item): $this->products[$i]['qty']                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 *     Order number: $zf_insert_id                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 *     Attribute Option Name ID: (int)$this->products[$i]['attributes'][$j]['option_id']                                                                                                                                                                                      
 *     Attribute Option Value ID: (int)$this->products[$i]['attributes'][$j]['value_id']                                                                                                                                                                                      
 *     Attribute Filename: $attributes_values->fields['products_attributes_filename']                                                                                                                                                                                         
 *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 * 2. Add that data to the $this->products_ordered_attributes variable, using this sort of format:                                                                                                                                                                            
 *      $this->products_ordered_attributes .=  {INSERT CUSTOM INFORMATION HERE};                                                                                                                                                                                              
 */
 
    $this->products_ordered_attributes .= $custom_insertable_text;
 
/* END: ADD MY CUSTOM DETAILS */

$this→products_ordered_attributes gets added into the email a few lines down both for html and text-based emails.

In our case, we wanted to add links to the products documentation, so our code looks like this:

$this->products_ordered_attributes .= "\n Tutorials: [[" . HTTP_SERVER . '/products/' . $this->products[$i]['id'] . "#tutorials]]"; 
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