The solution looks great – see example below and contains some nice touches including the option to create a watermark graphic on the invoice and a comments box.

I have also developed a standalone invoice management solution that can run externally to magento. Click here for more.

DOWNLOAD (github)

Tested with Magento CE 1.3 -> 1.9.x

download here

WISHLIST

• Add an Email button to email the HTML invoice directly to the customer.

Installation

Modman

modman clone https://github.com/gaiterjones/magento-htmlinvoice

Manual

Download and extract the source files and copy to your Magento root folder.

Refresh your Magento system cache, log out and back into admin to enable the module and confguration area.

Configuration

The extension is configurable under system > configuration > my extensions > html invoice. The configuration consists of some options to help customise the html invoice.

LOGO URL
Enter the URL to an image to use as a logo to appear on the invoice. Default if blank is no logo.

WATERMARK URL
Enter the URL to a watermark image if you want to use one. Default if left blank is no watermark image.

HEADER TEXT
Enter the text (or html) you want to appear at in the header of the invoice, your company name and address for example. Default is no header

SHOW COMMENTS BOX
Select Yes to enable the comments box on the invoice, this lets you type a short comment that will appear on the printed invoice.

FOOTER TEXT
Enter the text (or html)  you want to appear on the bottom of the invoice. Default is no footer text.

ADD VAT / TAX TO PRICING
Set this to YES and then specify your VAT rate as an integer i.e. 19 for 19% VAT, this will add VAT to the invoice pricing at the rate you specify.

Save any options you have changed and goto an order in Sales > Orders. Select an order to view and you should see a new PRINT button on the top right hand side of the order view screen.

Clicking the print button will open the HTML invoice for this order in a new browser tab. An invoice example is below.

To customise the invoice further just take a look at the code in

app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/paj/htmlinvoice/invoice.phtml

This contains all the formatting for the invoice and is fairly easy to modify for your exact requirements.

To extract individual product information to display on the invoice insert the following within the foreach loop

$_product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_item->getProductId());

Now you can echo out product information e.g. custom attributes

$_product->getMy_custom_attribute();

Acknowledgments again to the original developer for parts of the code used in this solution.

This Magento module helps to get more Magento customer product feedback by giving customers the opportunity and incentives to complete reviews and ratings for products they have recently purchased.

HOW IT WORKS

The code in the module is called at checkout caching customer information and products ordered. The module then uses the Magento scheduling system to execute code that regularly checks the cached files to create a customised customer feedback email containing direct links to the review pages of the products the customer has ordered.

When configurable parameters, such as order status, or elapsed time since the order was placed are met the email is sent to the customer and the order status updated.

The customer feedback email allows you to directly follow up every customer order and offer incentives to the customer to complete product reviews and ratings. An example email is shown below.

Tested with Magento CE 1.3-1.9.x

GIT – https://github.com/gaiterjones/magento-GetCustomerFeedback note – the latest code will always be available at the git hub for download.

Place an order in my development store to test the customer feedback email yourself.

Updates

This module was originally coded in 2013. I updated it in 2017 with some bug fixes, better translation options and a new responsive email template.INSTALLATION

Prerequisites : PHP5.4+, Working Magento scheduling system, Magento CE 1.x

To install this module:

Modman

modman clone https://github.com/gaiterjones/magento-GetCustomerFeedback.git

Manual

1. Unzip the module and copy the contents of the modules app folder to the app folder of your Magento store installation.

2. Ensure that the module /cache folder has write permission set to allow the WWW user group write access. The module caches customer and product information in this folder.

3. Refresh the Magento Store cache

4. Logout and login back into the admin backend, goto System – Configuration and locate the configuration settings under My Extensions – Get Customer Feedback.

CONFIGURATION

Email body content:

Enter the text that will form the main body of the customer email here, this text appears before the product information. You may use HTML.

For example for the offer shown in the example above I used the following HTML, remember you should replace special characters with html entities.:

<p align="center"><img src="/images/articles/comp_win50.jpg" width="650" height="130" align="middle" /></p>
<p align="left">Thankyou for your recent order, we hope you are very happy with your products. We value your opinion so simply tell us what you think about your purchases and you could win £50 to spend with us.</p>

Email footer content:

Enter the text that will form the footer of the customer email here, this text appears below the product information. You may use HTML.

Email subject:

Enter a custom subject for the feedback email, if left blank subject is “STORENAME : Your Order # ORDERNUMBER”.

Leave feedback icon URL:

To specify your own Get Feedback icon image in the customer feedback email enter the image URL here. If no image url is specified the text “Leave Feedback” will be used.

Send feedback request email :

Specify when the email should be sent, immediately after the order completion or after a specific period of time to allow the customer time to receive the products and form an opinion. When order status check is set to YES, email will be sent X days after order status is set to complete.

Check order status: YES/NO

To only send customer feedback emails when the order status is “Complete” set this field to YES.

Test mode enabled: YES/NO

In test mode customer feedback emails are sent to the general email address of your store and not to the customer. When you are happy that the emails are formatted correctly set this option to NO and emails will be sent to the customer. Test mode is enabled by default.

To test your email and cron settings rename the test email file in the cache folder to GetCustomerFeedback.emailtest

The module will now send a test email to the general store address every time the cron scheduler runs. Delete or rename this file to stop the test emails.

Use PHP email

Send customer feedback emails using the Magento email system or directly via PHP. To BCC feedback emails use PHP email mode.

To test that you are receiving emails from the module rename the file GetCustomerFeedback.emailtestOFF in the cache folder removing the word OFF from the end. The module will send you an email every time the Magento cron.php runs. Note the default cron task is set to once per hour, you can manually change this in the module config files to a shorter period for testing if required. If you receive the test email you know the module cron task is running and email is functioning. Rename the control file again to turn off the test emails.

URL Tracking tags:

Specify Google UTM tags here to track traffic generated by customer feedback emails.

Send alert emails: YES/NO

The module will send alert emails to the general email address of the store when errors are detected, enable this option during testing and disable afterwards when the module is functioning correctly.

Edit Locale Files for Translations
In the root folder of the extension is an example locale file named translation_store_id_1.txt this will be used to translate phrases used by the extension that cannot be set in admin. If you have a multi language store a translation file should exist here for each store, i.e. if your store ID 1 is French and store ID2 is German then your translation_store_id_1.txt file should contain English to French translations and you should create a second file called translation_store_id_2.txt containing English to German translations.

ENABLE MAGENTO SCHEDULING

Magento uses a single file named cron.php to execute all its scheduled tasks –  cron.php should be executed regularly to allow configured background tasks in Magento to run and is also used by this module. For example to run cron.php every 5 minutes add the following or similar to your crontab (crontab -e):

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php -f  /PATH-TO-MAGENTO/cron.php

Alternatively for testing you can execute cron.php from your browser by browsing to

http://www.yourstore.com/cron.php

When you manually execute the cron job you may want to change the configured cron schedule from every hour to every minute by editing the config.xml module file otherwise your manual cron job will only run once per hour.

How it Works

The code in the module is called at checkout and a random product is selected from products in  the customers cart. The information from this random “Top Seller” product is used to create a product marketing post, including a headline, short description and short Bit.ly URL to link to the product page. The built in Magento scheduling system is then used to regularly check for new marketing posts and send them to Twitter and Facebook.

To use this module you must enable the Magento scheduling system and will need a Twitter  account, and configured Twitter application, a Facebook account and configured Facebook application and a Bit.ly account, further information for setting these accounts up is detailed below.

Tested with Magento CE 1.6.1

I am looking for extension testers, download BETA version 0.26 (last updated 09-12-2011) of the extension here

Updates

If you use this extension be sure to update to the latest version.

*  0.22 – First beta release. 15.09.2011
*  0.23 – Developed Facebook integration and duplicate post control logic. 16.09.2011
* 0.24 – Improved Facebook posting, added logic to exclude posts for products in specified categories. 19.09.2011
* 0.25 – Added time range to stop being too spammy by restricting posts to specific hours of the day. 04.11.2011
* 0.26 – Fixed grouped products not being posted due to hidden child simple products of the parent group product.

Wishlist

Implement logic to control the duplication of product Tweets. Done – v0.23
Extend to other Social Media platforms, Facebook, etc. Facebook Support in v0.23
Implement hash tags for Twitter.
Add to Cart link in Facebook posts
Add option to use Short or Long description text.

Installation

Prerequisites :

Enable Magento scheduling system
Twitter Account
Twitter Application
Facebook Account
Authorised Facebook Application

Bit.ly Account (optional)

To install this extension:

1. Unzip the module and copy the contents of the modules app folder to the app folder of your Magento store installation.

2. Ensure that the module /cache and /cache/Bitly folders have write permissions set to allow the WWW user group write access. The module stores the product Tweets and caches the Bit.ly short URLs in this folder.

3. Refresh the Magento Store cache

4. Logout and login back into the admin backend, goto System – Configuration and locate the configuration settings under My Extensions – Social Media Marketing.

Configuration

1. Configure the Twitter, Facebook and Bit.ly account, authorisation and API keys. See below for further information. If you do not want to use the Bit.ly short URL service set the enable option to no.

Twitter is enabled by default, Facebook is disabled by default.

2. Define a headline prefix for the product marketing text, the default if left blank is “Top Seller:” To disable this prefix enter NONE. For Facebook you can define the text to use for the post header. Define the “uniqueness” value for posts, this value will be used to check for if a product has already been posted in the last X posts, where X is the value you define here. This will help prevent duplicate posts. You can also configure a time range so that Social Media Marketing posts will only be made during the times selected.

3. Configure Google UTM tags for traffic tracking in Google analytics.e.g. ?utm_source=SocialMediaMarketing&utm_medium=Top-Seller&utm_campaign=MyCampaig

4. Enable email alerts which will help you debug the module during testing.

5. Save the extension configuration settings and test.

Testing

Make a test order in your store to test the extension. Upon checkout completion the product marketing information will be written to the modules cache folder. At the next scheduled Magento task execution the text will be posted to Twitter (and Facebook if enabled) and the cached file deleted.

To force the Magento scheduler to run navigate to http://www.yourwebshop.com/cron.php. Check your Twitter and Facebook pages to confirm the marketing post has been submitted. Any errors that occur during this process will be emailed to the default store email address if you set email alerts enabled to YES in the configuration.

ENABLE MAGENTO SCHEDULING

Magento uses a single file named cron.php to execute all its scheduled tasks –  cron.php should be executed regularly to allow configured background tasks in Magento to run and is also used by this module to check for marketing information to post. For example to run cron.php every 5 minutes add the following or similar to your crontab (crontab -e):

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php -f  /PATH-TO-MAGENTO/cron.php

Alternatively for testing you can execute cron.php from your browser by browsing to

http://www.yourstore.com/cron.php

TWITTER Configuration

Folow the steps below to create a Twitter application that will be used by the module to access your Twitter account and post product marketing Tweets.

1. If you do not already have a Twitter account, create an account at http://www.tiwtter.com

2. Go to https://dev.twitter.com/ and login with your Twitter credentials.

3. Click the Create an App link.

4. Complete the first page of the application form with your application name, description and website address. A Callback URL is not required. Click the “Create your twitter app” button to continue.

5. Goto the application settings tab and ensure your application is set to Read and Write and click Update Setting to continue.

6. Click on the details tab and scroll down to the Create my access Token button, click it to create access tokens for the application. You will see the four main authentication tokens listed CONSUMER KEY, CONSUMER SECRET, ACCESS TOKEN and ACCESS TOKEN SECRET. Ensure that the access tokens have READ and WRITE access.

7. Copy each authentication token into the configuration settings of the module and click save.

If you do not want to use Bit.ly to shorten URLs in the marketing tweets you have the option of enabling t.co shortlinks in the application settings and you can disable Bit.ly in the extension settings.

You can confirm your application is enabled and has access to your Twitter account by going to account settings -> applications in Twitter.

FACEBOOK CONFIGURATION

Login to Facebook and then browse to

http://developers.facebook.com/

Create an application that will be used to post marketing information to your Facebook page, this can be a normal profile page or a Business/Fan page. When complete note the application ID and application secret.

The application must be authorised for your Facebook page to work.

To authorise the application for your page edit the following URL and paste to your browser, replaceing YOURAPIKEY and YOURPAGEID..

facebook.com/connect/prompt_permissions.php?api_key=YOURAPIKEY&v=1.0&next=http://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html?xxRESULTTOKENxx&display=popup&ext_perm=publish_stream&enable_profile_selector=1&profile_selector_ids=YOURPAGEID

BIT.LY CONFIGURATION

To create a Bit.ly account goto http://bit.ly and register an account. Once registered obtain your API key by clicking on Account -> Settings. Configure your bit.ly username and API key in the configuration settings of the extension and save them.Bit.ly is enabled by default in the extension, If you do not want to use bit.ly you can disable it in the configuration settings.

Simply configure a coupon as usual in Magento, set the coupon name i.e. “MYCOUPON1” but do not configure any coupon discount information. Then configure the name of the coupon in the Coupon section of the extension, and the ID of the free product, product Y. You should create a new or duplicate an existing product to create a unique product ID for your free gift.

When the customer enters the coupon code, the free product is added to the cart.

See the full extension page post for more information and to download. Thanks to Darren for the idea!

I thought it would be a good idea to monitor this folder for new files and to be alerted by email when a change in the folder contents is detected, i.e. when a new error report is generated so that I am aware of Magento errors as soon as they happen.

I put together a quick PHP script and then converted it into a Magento Extension that runs as part of the magento scheduled cron tasks. The extension will check the /var/report folder every hour and send an email alert when a change in this folder is detected with the latest error report file attached.

The extension uses the Magento scheduler which should be enabled. And the Magento scheduler script cron.php should be configured to run periodically in your crontab.

To install the extension, copy the extension app folder to your magento store app folder. Refresh your magento cache. Logout from admin, and login again. Check out your var/reports folder, if you have not checked it for a while there could be reports there, it is quite safe to remove old reports.

The first time the extension runs you will receive an email if there are existing files in your var/report folder showing the total number of reports with the newest report attached. After that you will be alerted each time new reports are detected.

Configure the extension with a valid email addresses, in the My Extensions, Monitor Reports admin section.

Tested with Magento 1.3.x, 1.5.x

Download the extension here.

Tested with Magento eCommerce Community Edition only v1.3 -> 1.9.x

https://github.com/gaiterjones/magento-masterpassword

Features

Uses an MD5 hash of the password, master password is never stored in plain text.

Installation

MODMAN

modman clone https://github.com/gaiterjones/magento-masterpassword.git

MANUAL

Copy the files to your magento installation folder. Refresh your cache and log out and back into admin. Goto System – Configuration and select My Extensions – Master Password to access the configuration.

Configuration

Enter your master password in the Create Master Password MD5 hash text box to generate an MD5 hash of the password. Copy the MD5 hash to the Master Password MD5 text box and save the config. Note the plain text password is not saved.

Test by logging into any valid customer account with the master password.

FREE Magento Extension Buy One Get One Free

A common requirement for an eCommerce store is the Buy X Get Y free sales promotion, where a bonus product Y is offered if the customer buys a quantity of product X or the Spend X Get Y Free scenario where a bonus product Y is offered when the customer spends X amount on a single order.

Free Magento Extension for Magento eCommerce Stores

This free magento extension provides Buy X Get Y, Spend X get Y, use Coupon X get Y and buy from Category X get Y functionality for Magento eCommerce stores.

Tested with CE 1.3 – 1.9 and EE 1.x

The module code is now pretty stable and has been implemented in many Magento stores.

Download Free Magento Extension

Download the latest version of this free magento extension / module via Github here  https://github.com/gaiterjones/magento-buy-x-get-y-free

Try out the extension at my development store here http://dev.gaiterjones.com/magento/

Updates

If you use this free magento extension be sure to update to the latest version, latest source code will always be available at the github.

*  0.34 – First beta release. 05.03.2011
*  0.40 – Corrected problem rendering cart in Magento versions 1.4+
*  0.41 – Added logic to allow a maximum product X limit for product Y i.e. buy 5 get 1 free, buy 10 get 2 free etc.
*  0.42 – 01.07.2011  Added control to ensure product Y is unique across all offers to prevent a nasty cart loop
*  0.43 – 20.07.2011  Developed Coupon X get Y Free, get a free gift with a coupon.
*  0.46 – 22.07.2011  Bug fixes and coupon dev.
*  0.50 – 04.08.2011  Developed Category X get Y Free, get a free gift, bonus product when you buy a product that is a member of a specific category.
*  0.51 – 09.08.2011  Bug fixes.
*  0.53 – 15.08.2011  Developed customer group check for Spend X
*  0.53 – 25.08.2011 Tested with Magento CE 1.6.0.0
*  0.56 – 21.10.2011 Enhance coupon X function.
*  0.57 – 02.11.2011 Enhanced Spend X to function in multi currency store.
*  0.59 – 13.01.2012 Bug Fixes
*  0.61 – 08.03.2012 Fixed coupon function to ignore coupon case. Added product exclusion to Spend X function.
* 0.63 – 21.03.2012 Added minimum X quantity required for Category X
improved excluded products logic for Spend X. Admin updates.
* 0.65 – 22.03.2012 Translation improvements.
* 0.66  – 06.07.2012 Bug Fixes in Category X function
* 0.70 – 16.11.2012 0.70 – Changes to indexAction to improve functionality with other modules extending cartcontroller
* 0.71 – 18.11.2013 Added max limit to allow various Y products in SPEND X

Wishlist

Buy category X get Y free – done (v0.50). Many thanks to CC LLC for the development incentive.
Spend X, offer choice of product
Use a coupon for a free gift – done (v0.46).
Restrict offers to customer groups. Done for Spend X in v0.53.
Specify cart amount required for Coupon X (done v0.55)
Exclude specific products for Spend X (done v0.61)
Minimum X quantity for Category X (done v0.63)

If you have a requirement for a specific feature let me know and I will add it to the wishlist.

Features

Works with simple and configurable products ( as product X), or categories containing product X.
Prompts customers that a bonus product is available
Multiple offers configurable
Offer details customisable in admin
Manage stock of offer products – send alert emails, low stock, errors etc.
Use coupons for free gift promotions.
Use category to define products that qualify for free/bonus product.
Restrict offers based on customer groups
Can work with AheadWorks products, Ajax Cart, Mobile Theme

Installation

Extract the extension and copy the files to the /app folder of your magento installation. Refresh your cache, log out of admin and back in again.

Configuration

Configure the extension under System>Configuration>My Extensions see below for examples. There are four sections to configure, one for each type of BUYXGETYFREE promotion, BUY X, SPEND X, CATEGORY X and COUPON X.

BUY X

Buy product X get, product Y free, discounted.

SPEND X

Spend amount X, get product Y free, discounted.

COUPON X

Use coupon X get product Y free, discounted.

CATEGORY X

Buy products that belong to a specific category X, get product Y free, discounted. Allows you to step product X to provide for example buy 3 get 1 free, buy 6 get 2 free etc.

You must create a new simple product to represent your free gift product (product Y), or duplicate an existing product. Product Y must have a unique ID across all configs, buy, spend and coupon. It must be saleable, should be hidden from your catalog search and have a zero price.

If you want to provide the same product Y free or discounted for various product X’s you must duplicate product Y for each offer so that each product Y has a unique ID number.

If you want to give a bonus product for multiple product X’s either use an existing category that the X products are members of, or create a dummy category, i.e. BuyXGetYFree that is not enabled/visible. Then add the X products to this category. Specify the ID number of the offer category in the extension configuration.

The extension works best for a free gift product that is a simple product without options. If you want to make your free gift product Y a configurable product i.e. a product with colours RED/BLACK/WHITE, then consider creating a simple product to represent the free gift i.e. “FREE RED/BLACK/WHITE GIFT – select colour at checkout” and then include a comments section at checkout to allow customer to specify the colour/size etc there.

To configure the extension for use with a coupon, first configure the coupon under Admin->Promotions. Configure the name of the coupon but do not apply any discount info, conditions or actions, i.e. in effect the coupon does nothing. Under the Coupon X configuration section of the extension, define product Y, the free or discounted product and the coupon code of the configured coupon. You can also configure a minimum cart total required for this coupon. Test the extension by applying the coupon to the cart, product Y should then be added.

Consider modifying your theme so that products that have a zero price have the quantity selection box disabled or removed in the cart or during the checkout process.

Test out the extension at my development store here http://dev.gaiterjones.com/magento/

Here are some examples of functionality.