An email template is a pre-designed email design (as well as the design of website) which WooCommerce applies to all outgoing emails. They are also known as the transaction emails. The current version of WooCommerce sends 11 kinds of emails including new account, new order, new invoice etc.

In short, email templates are the nice look of your outgoing emails.

If your WooCommerce installation is sending a unique email design each time and not the standard WooCommerce emails design You'll begin to develop brand consistency across all of your marketing channels including your website, transactional emails, newsletter, and social media.

This occurrence is especially true if you use a unique design and logos in your marketing to maintain brand consistency and awareness.

Yes. The email templates include an "empty," pre-designed HTML email template that you can replace with your content.

Please note: there is no guarantee or support for third party modules/providers.

Before you make any changes, it is important to backup your data.

• 1. Unzip the file.
• 2. Create a folder "woocommerce" in your active theme.

  \[root]\wp-content\themes\[YourTheme]\woocommerce\

• 3. Copy the "emails" folder from the unzipped folder.

Customize email templates using the WooCommerce Admin

Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Emails, and you will find the section, Email Template.

Here you will find some elementary options where you can change colors, logo, footer text. For more advanced modification you will have to edit the template in the file system.

Customize email templates in the filesystem

You can modify email templates using your favorite IDE or text editor. The advantage of this method is that it gives you more control over the code used in the templates.

Main files of email template to modify

• email-header.php - the file contains the header of email
• email-footer.php - the file contains the footer of email
• email-styles.php - allows to output a set of CSS rules directly into the template as inline styles.

• - In the section Email Template click at the button Click here to preview your email template.
• - You can install the extensions WooCommerce Email Test or similar plugin.
• - You can place a test order or create a test account.

Bought an email template and need a bit of customization work completed? Let’s do it.

• - The path to the email templates is set wrong. Your CMS system cannot find the templates.

These are most common reasons. Ensure everything is okay.