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Created: 06/06/2016 | By: Magenest | Email: [email protected]

Introduction

Ulitimate Follow Up Emails extension is a powerful extension which allows you to to keep a healthy interaction with your customers. You will be able to create flexible rules for follow up emails and specifically link them up with your store.

Extension page: Ultimate Follow Up Emails.

Features

• Customizable multiple email template for each rule.
• Ability to specify a delay of sending mails in days, hours, minutes.
• Automatic integration of discount coupon in promotion rule. Auto complete for the "Coupon Name" field in the coupon page.
• View the log of follow up emails which are sent to customers.
• Ability to manage rules in the order view.
• Can create and preview customized template email to be sent.
• Flexible rules and conditions.
• View abandoned cart list.
• View customer birthday list.
• Supports Daily and Hourly Cron job.
• Attach File 
• Madrill 

System Requirements

Installation

Here we will guide you through the installation process of our extension. First off, open FileZilla, log in to your host as follows:

In the above example we switched the local site to the extension directory, and the remote site to the code directory. Now on the remote site window, inside app/code directory, create a folder named Magenest and go inside it. Now on your local site window, right click on Wrapper extension and click Upload. The extension will be uploaded onto your host in a few minutes.

The second method will require you to compress the extension into .zip or .tar.gz format, then execute the following command in your Command Line/Terminal:

    scp <path to your extension> <ssh server>:<path to Magenest directory>

Then log into your ssh server, go to Magenest directory and execute the following command to decompress the module:

    unzip <.zip compressed extension> 

Or

    tar -xzvf <.tar.gz compressed extension>

Now go to your Magento root directory, say it's named magento2, and execute the following commands:

    sudo chmod -R 755 .

    php bin/magento setup:upgrade

    php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

    sudo chmod -R 777 var pub

After running all these, your Command line/Terminal window might look like this:

Finally, you need to flush the cache by either type this into the Command Line/Terminal:

    php bin/magento cache:flush

Or go to System > Cache Management and click Flush Magento Cache

Now you can go to your store and check if the extension is working as expected.

Configuration

General Configuration

You can configure the extension;s general settings in Store > Configuration > Magenest > FollowUp Emails Configuration

• Time to be consider as abandoned cart: Set the period time for an abandoned cart ( Magento default is 60 minutes)
• Enable send email via gmail: If Yes, the follow up emails are sent to customers by Gmail account that you define below. If No, the follow up emails are sent by default mail account of website
• Gmail password & Gmail account: defines the default sender for extension's emails
  
  

Main Functions

We created a Ultimate Follow Up Emails tab which allows admin can easily set and manage, regarding to this extension. 

The following is the great features that Ultimate Follow Up Emails extension brings the owner stores.

• Setting Up Rules

Firstly, admin need to set rules related the email type which suit their business strategy such as abandoned cart, customer birthday and so on by clicking on Marketing > Rule.

At Rule screen, admin can manage the entire existing rules. 

To create a new rule, admin only click on New Rule button.

Then, admin need to select a event that they want.

Events

The extension supports these events:

Click Save button to continue the next step.  Admin will need to set some information here.

Rule Information

General information include Rule Name, Status, Active From-To, Websites and Customer Groups.

Condition

Go to Marketing > Ultimate Follow Up Emails > Rule and open a rule and click the Conditions tab.

Setting up rules allows you to set additional conditions based on customer details, who will receive certain emails.
You can use Customer, Shopping Cart, Order, Shipping Address, Wishlist conditions.

Email Chain

In this section you can add email instances that would be sent to a customer when the rule gets triggered. Remember you must add at least 1 email when creating a rule. 

To add new email to mail chain, follow these steps:

*Case 1:    

• Go to Marketing > Communications > Email Template and open the rule.

• Press Add New Template

Then go to Marketing > Ultimate Follow Up Emails > Rule, follow Email Chain Tab.

• • Select when the triggered message will be sent.

    By default, it will send immediately after a triggering event (0 days 0 hours 0 minutes). You can choose set times from as short as one minute to as long as few years after the trigger’s criteria is met.

  • Select Email Template, which will be sent.

*Case 2:

Navigate to Marketing > Ultimate Follow Up Emails > Rule, follow Email Chain Tab.

• Select when the triggered message will be sent.
• Select Add new email Template in dropdown email template menu. You be led to a popup screen that allow you to write your template.

Google Analytics

To configure Google Analytics Campaign, follow these steps: 

1. Go to Marketing > Ultimate Follow Up Emails > Rule, open rule and follow tab Google Analytics.
2. Fill in 3 required fields:
   • Campaign Source - Identifies a search engine, newsletter name, or other source.(i.e. email, follow-up-email, newsletter)
   • Campaign Medium - Identifies a medium such as email or cost-per-click. (i.e. cpc, banner, email)
   • Campaign Name - Identifies a specific product promotion or strategic campaign. (i.e product, promo code, or slogan)
     Also, you can optionally fill in other fields:
   • Campaign Term - Identifies paid keywords.
   • Campaign Content - Differentiates ads or links that point to the same URL.
3. Save the trigger

After configuring Google Analytics Campaign, extension will automatically add special get params to all links in emails. Thus, you don't need to do additional configuration adjustments. (i.e. url http://example.com/about-us/ will be converted tohttp://example.com/about-us/?utm-source=email&utm-medium=trigger-email&utm-name=review-request).

To track Google Analytics Campaign log in into your Google account and go to Traffic Sources > Campaigns. Select campaign source from the list.

Coupon

Navigate to Marketing > FollowUp Emails > Rule, follow Coupons Tab.

At first, you need to creates some Cart Price Rules then select the Specific Coupons value in the Coupon field and check the Use Auto Generation box.

In the Coupon section of extension you can search your cart price rule by type 3 characters for search auto complete. The extension will show 3 nearest results for you. Enter the promotion coupon you want for rule. 

• Abandoned Cart List

Go to Marketing > Ultimate Follow Up Email > Abandoned Cart List. 

Manage your customers' abandoned carts in this section.

• Customer Birthday Collect

Go to Marketing > Follow Up Email > Customer Birthday 

Collect your customers' date of birth in this section.

Mail Log

Go to Marketing > Follow Up Email > Mail Log.

In the mail log grid, you can view any of the currently scheduled, already sent, failed and cancelled emails. The grid shows the status, created at/ sent at timestamps, rule details (rule ID, rule name) and recipient details  email address).

You can also apply certain actions to any of the queue items - Preview, Cancel and Send Now (the latter sends the selected email(s) instantly, disregarding their schedule or status)

Testing Rule

To test abandoned cart rule, follow these steps: 

1. Go to Marketing > Follow Up Emails > Rule.
2. At top right corner press Emulate Hourly Cron..
3. Extension will send all email (chains) associated with the abandoned card rule for each selected store.
   
   

To test customer birthday rule, follow these steps: 

1. Go to Marketing > FollowUp Emails > Rule.
2. At top right corner press Emulate Daily Cron.
3. Extension will send all email (chains) associated with the customer birthday rule for each selected store.

Sample Email Template

• Abandoned carts reminder

Dear {{var customerName}}
<br>
We notice you have abandoned cart 
 <br>
{{var cart}}
 
<br>
 
Please click <a href="{{var resumeLink}}" > Resume Cart </a> to complete the order.
 
<br>
We gift you a coupon with code {{var coupon.code}}
<br>
 

• Happy birthday email template

Dear {{var customerName}}


Happy birthday .
We gift a coupon $50 {{var coupon.code}}
 
Thank  you

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