It's been a loooong time since any meaningful changes were made to the overall email template system. And we have a whole lot more email templates than the 7.x days.

It's important to have a consistent look-and-feel to all store communications. In it's present state, the Able email template feature makes it very cumbersome to keep all store emails consistent in their appearance.

First, we should have a place where we can define separate email template headers and footers. Just like how HTML snippets work for web pages.

Next, the specific email templates become just the body. When editing an email template, the user can assign which email header and email footer to include when that specific email is rendered by nVelocity. Email template headers and footers always include support for nVelocity references to useful global vars like $store.

Finally, The template rendering routine is then modified to render the assigned email template header, then the body, and then the assigned footer into a single html email.

Now if we need to change a phone number, logo or hyperlink in the store emails, we change it in 1 place instead of 40. And the overall consistency of all store emails is vastly easier to maintain going forward.

Joe,

just wondering if you were ever able to use nVelocity to pull in the Store Logo? I can't seem to find a store property that points directly to it (still looking).

Best I can see is doing something like this:

${store.StoreUrl}Themes\${store.Settings.StoreTheme}\Content\images\logo.png


which still requires you to make an assumption on png, gif or jpg.

I added this as a feature request for a future version. It's a great idea Joe. We should have done this a long time ago.