Possible to send personalised notification to multiple users from one trigger?

Hi, thanks for the kind words!

Unfortunately, that’s the main drawback of our plugin at the moment, but I just figured out how we could implement that feature pretty easily.

We’ll probably add that feature within a next month or so, in the next bigger release.

A sneak-peak on how this will work:

In the email body you’ll be able to use a special merge tag {recipient $field}. So this could be {recipient ID} or {recipient firstname} or even a custom meta with our Custom Fields extension: {usermeta {recipient ID} _meta_key}.

In the background, it’d take the recipient email, search for this user in the database and if there is an user with this email, it’d pull all the necessary data.

Thanks – that sounds great!

Would this open up the possibility of customising it to apply any individualised piece of data to a group of recipients? For example: “Dear {first_name}, Your {order_title} has been dispatched.”?

Oh, yes, you’ll be able to combine it with any trigger and other merge tags ??

Cool, but just to be clear: I meant cases where {order_title} would be different for each user, just like {first_name}

I see. You’ll need an order-specific trigger then! Like order status changed. If you’re using WooCommerce, we have a WooCommerce extension that provides such triggers.

The whole idea of the plugin is to have a contextual trigger that hooks to a specific action. This provides the merge tags because we know what order is being updated or placed.

Damn, I knew using orders as an example might come back to haunt me!

The example was not meant to imply woocommerce at all, sorry! What I am getting at is this:

Say I have some list of email addresses to which I want to send emails, and I also have a list of values for each email that should be entered into the same position of the body of each email. Maybe the simplest version would be just “First Name”, but in a situation where the email addresses are not users on the system… In that scenario, would I be able to use Notification to say “Here are the recipient addresses, here is the content; and here is a list of values to replace the content tokens for each address”?

Ohh, basically no, this isn’t how this plugin is intended to work. The closest would be to create a custom trigger and for the set of data invoke the action with the proper context.

We’re looking forward to this feature very much as well, especially if it could be used in combination with custom merge tags.
We need to generate user specific content depending on the recipient, so we’d need access to the recipient email in the resolver function.
1+ for this and thanks for the nice plugin!

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Hey Kuba,

Any idea where this feature is in the pipeline and when it might be released?

It’s the one thing holding us back from getting the plugin!

Hey, unfortunately, no idea when this will get released. It’s definitely a long-term update.