SilverCommerce Abandoned Cart Notifications

Allows adding of configuirable reminder notifications to your SilverCommerce store for users who have added something to their cart, but not progressed through to payment.

Install

Install this module via composer:

composer require silvercommerce/abandoned-cart-notification

Once installed run dev/build to add additional database tables

Configuration and Setup

This module relies heavily on the i-lateral/silverstripe-notifications module, but automatically registers it's own configuration.

Cron Job

Reminder emails are currently sent via AbandonedCartNotificationTask. You can add this to a cron job, with something like:

0 9 * * * root /usr/bin/php /path/to/project/vendor/silverstripe/framework/cli-script.php dev/tasks/AbandonedCartNotificationTask flush=1

The above will run the task at 9am every morning.

Middleware

If you do not want to use a cron job, the best solution would be to add some custom middleware that calls AbandonedCartNotificationTask. See the following docs for more:

https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/4/developer_guides/controllers/middlewares/

Adding reminder notifications

1. Go to SiteConfig > Notifications.
2. Add an Abandoned Cart Notification.
3. Set "Object to monitor" as "Shopping Cart" and save.
4. Add a new Time Passed Rule, choose field and time period.
5. Add an Abandoned Cart Email type and set relevent fields.

NOTES/CAVIATS

Currently This module is currently pretty dumb, it will send notifications to ALL cart's that match the required timeframe.

Also, the process of sendeing notifications relies on looping through a list and sending notifications one at a time. It might make sense to look into adding integration with some form of external message queue.