When a purchase is made, an email confirmation is automatically sent from Rocketspark to your customer. This email is sent to the email address the client entered at the time of purchase. The order confirmation will be sent to your customer from an info@rocketspark.com address but the reply-to address will be the admin email on your account.
Customising the Order Confirmation Email
You can add a custom message, business details, and tax details to your order confirmation emails. We recommend that these are different from your delivery message/pickup message to avoid a double-up on your order confirmation emails.
- Once logged into your Dashboard click on Manage Store on the left-hand side.
- Scroll down to Store Preferences section. Here Look for the heading "Order confirmation email"
- Add your message and click Save.
We recommend testing how this message looks by placing a test order - Please note there is no control over where this message sits on the email.
If you would like to see how the Order Confirmation email appears to your customers check out the help guide here.
Customising the Default Shipping Message
When you have shipped an item to a customer you have the option of sending them an automatic email explaining that their goods have been sent and any other details you may want to include like courier tracking numbers.
You can customise this email, to do so follow the steps listed below:
- Once logged into your Dashboard click on Manage Store on the left-hand side.
- Click on Shipping
4. On the right side of the page click the button labelled Edit default shipping message
5. This will display a popup box detailing the contents of the default email. There are four sections that can be customised
Subject: This will appear as the subject for the email.
Message Header: This is automatically set to input the name and order number of the customer you are sending the message too.
Tracking Information: Will display the courier tracking number. If you do not plan on having courier tracking numbers you can delete the text from this section.
Message Footer: Closing comments of the email which automatically inserts your company’s website name and URL.
You can make changes to any of the above areas. If you wish to save the changes you make click the Save button when completed.
Sending the Shipping email out & Adding in tracking information
Once you have received an order and payment you can begin to get the order organised and ready to be sent to the customer. When the order is ready to be shipped you can log back into your Rocketspark dashboard and let the customer know that the goods have been sent.
If you have connected your website up with Gosweetspot refer to this help guide on how to send shipping notifications.
If you haven't connected up with a shipping integration you can manually enter in the courier and tracking information:
- Return to your Orders section in the Shop Settings
- Here there will be a drop-down box labelled Delivery / Pickup Status
- When you click Ship & Notify a pop-up box will appear, here you can enter a courier company, tracking number and URL if you have one
- You can either click Save (this will not notify the customer) or Save & send to customer.
- If you click Save & send to customer another popup will appear displaying the customised message to send to your customer explaining that the order has been shipped.
If you would like to see how the Order Confirmation email appears to your customers check out the help guide here.
Customising the Pickup Message
If the customer chose to pick up their order you can edit the Pickup message that is sent out.
- Once a customer makes an order and you are ready for the customer to pick up the order go to your Orders section (by clicking the setting cog next to the Store)
- Change the shipping status to 'Send pickup message' this will come up with a message box that will auto-populate the information as below. Here you can choose to add to this message if you wish to send out some additional information.
Note: You will need to add your own information each time you send this message - at this time the information won't save for each pickup order.
If you would like to see how the Order Confirmation email appears to your customers check out the help guide here.
Why do the emails come from info@rocketsparkmailer.com?
The email was not sent by that person, it was actually sent by your website, which is on the Rocketspark servers.
If we set the address as the customer's email address instead of an @rocketspark email address, your email programs (Outlook, Google+) can detect that the domain of the From address does not match the server it was sent from and would likely block it as "spam" a good amount of the time, which would mean lost enquiries for you.
The reason these email programs do this is that this is how scammers appear to email you from trusted companies like banks, PayPal, Google etc. They make it appear like the email has come from a legitimate source because the form address says so when in reality the scammer's web server is just creating an illusion.
The reply email address and the order confirmations emails you receive for sales in your online shop are sent to the email account that is used to log in to your Rocketspark website.
If you have any questions at all please email the Customer Success Team at support@rocketspark.com, they are more than happy to help you out.