How to automate welcome email to specific user group

[asigno]

Hi,

I want to send automated welcome emails which are to a specific user group, e.g. paid users who have purchased a subscription, with their user ID. 

I can't find any nice way to do this.

• Bulk email - would be a good option but can't schedule to run daily, and is not reliable due to running as a background task 
• Alerts - this could work, but you can't use tags in content so I can't add the user ID
• Auto Welcome plugin - this is great but can't specify a specific group
• Language strings - can't change “email_reg_complete" as can't specify specific group and is very rudimentary

Is there any other way or plugin you know of I can use?

Thanks

[teraßyte]

No, I can't think of any other modification that can do this. Are you using Commerce Subscriptions or Products for the paid option?

• If you are using Products, in ACP you can setup a custom email that is sent after a member purchases the product (WYSIWYG editor, HTML with default email wrapper, HTML with no wrapper).
• If you are using Subscriptions, the only option would be custom modification.

[asigno]

I'm using subscriptions. I'm genuinely surprised there's no native way to do this.

[teraßyte]

Subscriptions are basically a "watered down" version of products with very few options. Sending out an email after a purchase is not included by default, unfortunately. 🤷‍♂️

Maybe something will change with the coming v5.

Edited January 30 by teraßyte