If you have to work with manufacturers or drop-shippers, then you have to have some way to let them know that you've received an order and they should start producing or sending products. This doesn't have to be limited to drop-shipping—it could also be a partner, an employee who just ships the products, or some other usage. With the Advanced Notifications plugin, you can send notifications to anyone, based on which products were in the cart.
You can also send notifications for all sorts of activity in your store, such as products being low on stock, out of stock, or when backorders are made. For this example, we'll be sending a drop shipper an e-mail when an order gets placed.
You'll need the Advanced Notifications plugin, available at WooThemes.com, installed and activated on your site.
You'll also need a product already created on your site.
To send out notifications, we need to create a recipient in the notification settings and then set a recipient on the edit product page, by performing the following steps:
- From the WordPress admin, go to WooCommerce | Notifications.
- Click on Add notification.
- Fill in the Recipient name and Recipient email address(s) fields.
- Leave the Plain text field unchecked.
- Select Purchased from the Enable notifications field.
- Leave Notification triggers blank.
Note
If you have a lot of products that send notifications, then you could create a category and send the notification for any products in that category. You can configure this with the Notification field. If you are sending a notification for one or two products, it's best to do this on the product page, which we'll do now.
- Optionally, check the Include prices and Include order totals fields, depending on how much information the recipient needs.
- Click on Save changes.
Now that we have a recipient, we can send them a notification on a per product basis. We will set this on the product page in the WordPress admin by performing the following steps:
