#727 Question About Product-Based Email Notifications in J2Commerce

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Latest post by Olivier on Wednesday, 01 April 2026 19:38 UTC

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Hi,

I would like to ask for some clarification regarding email customization in J2Commerce.

At the moment, I understand that J2Commerce does not seem to provide a default option to send a specific email based on the product purchased.

In our case, we would like to understand if it is possible to configure different order confirmation emails (or additional automatic emails) depending on the specific product bought by the customer.

For example:

  • If a customer purchases Product A, we would like to send a dedicated email with custom instructions or specific content.
  • If a customer purchases Product B, we would like to send a different email with other information.

Could you please let us know:

  1. Is there any built-in feature in J2Commerce that allows product-specific email templates or product-based email automation?
  2. Is there any recommended extension, workflow, or official method to achieve this?
  3. Do you provide any developer hooks, events, or plugin system that would allow us to implement this customization?
  4. Is there a dedicated vendor/developer support channel or documentation for advanced customizations like this?

We are evaluating the best approach and would appreciate your guidance on whether this can be done natively or through a custom development method supported by J2Commerce.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Best regards,
Andrea

Olivier

Hello Andrea,

I don't believe I came accross a product-based email automation add-on for J2Commerce.

In your scenario, what happens if a customer purchases products A and B? I suppose you would have to send out 2 emails. It looks like each product should have a space dedicated for optional email notification. If setup, the email would be sent out alongside the order confirmation email.

We do have limited developer documentation for the current version of J2Commerce (https://docs.j2commerce.com/developer-guide), and I doubt this is enough to help you build such functionality into the current version of J2Commerce.

However, J2Commerce v6 is around the corner, we are in the final testing phase before a public beta release, and we have much better and extensive documentation to help produce such mechanism. That documentation will lay out the official way to extend J2Commerce. And yes, it goes through event hooks and the need to create a j2commerce-type plugin. The documentation will be available at the time of the public beta release.

Do you already have a J2Commerce store and wanted to extend its functionality or are you planning on setting up a new store? 

 

Olivier.

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