Send an email when a new coupon is added

[vicent]

Hello. Anyone knows if there is a way to send an email when a coupon is added for a customer?
Is it possilble to do it by configuration? if not. which is the best way to do it?

thanks.

[vicent]

my version is 4.2.0.1

[julie]

What do you mean by "coupon added for a customer" ?

[vicent]

Well I done it by code. I have 2 promotions, one is invite a friend and other is birthday, both promotions generates a coupon when a customer acomplishes the requeriments. Of course, the customer should receive notification by email. I do it by code but my question is if there is some configuration in konakart that makes it automaticaly, providing a template for each promotion. If not, I think it might be a good improvement. And most if shops owner wants to make more promotions without adding code.

[julie]

I'm still not sure about what process you use to generate the coupon, but anyway we do have an API call to send a template based eMail:

    /**
     * This method is used to send a template based eMail to a customer identified by the
     * customerId.
     * <p>
     * Valid options are:
     * <ul>
     * <li><code>templateName</code>: The name of the template used to send the mail without the
     * country code and the .vm extension. e.g. If the name of the template is myTemplate and the
     * two letter country code is en, then KonaKart will search for a template called
     * myTemplate_en.vm .</li>
     * <li><code>countryCode</code>: The two letter (lower case) country code used to search for the
     * template. e.g. en, de, es etc.</li>
     * <li><code>customAttrs</code>: An array of name value pairs used to pass custom information to
     * the Velocity engine. The value can be retrieved from the template using the name preceded by
     * the $ sign. e.g. If a name value pair contains StoreId and 22, the value 22 will be displayed
     * in the eMail where the template contains $StoreId.</li>
     * <li><code>fullAttachmentFilename</code>: The complete filename of an attachment.</li>
     * <li><code>friendlyAttachmentName</code>: The friendly filename of an attachment that can be
     * viewed from the eMail.</li>
     * <li><code>deleteAttachmentAfterSend</code>: When set to <code>true</code>, the attachment is
     * deleted after being sent. The default value is <code>false</code>.</li>
     * </ul>
     * <p>
     * The Velocity context contains the following data:
     * <ul>
     * <li><code>customerName</code>: The name of the customer in the format firstName lastName</li>
     * <li><code>customer</code>: The CustomerIf object</li>
     * <li><code>message</code>: The message that may be used by the template</li>
     * <li><code>storeOwner</code>: The name of the store owner.</li>
     * <li><code>storeName</code>: The name of the store.</li>
     * <li><code>storeOwnerEmailAddr</code>: The email address of the store owner.</li>
     * <li><code>dateTool</code>: org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.DateTool object used to format
     * dates.</li>
     * <li><code>locale</code>: java.util.Locale object</li>
     * <li><code>currencyMgr</code>: Used to format prices</li>
     * </ul>
     *
     * @param customerId
     *            The numeric id of the customer
     * @param message
     *            The information within the message may be used by the template.
     * @param options
     *            Options for the email
     * @return Returns an Email object containing the content of the email
     * @throws KKException
     */
    public EmailIf sendTemplateEmailToCustomer1(int customerId, String message,
            EmailOptionsIf options) throws KKException;