Pending Approval Notify Wizard

 

This email job requires the Order Approvals optional module to be useful.  It's designed to send email reminders to order approvers who have requests awaiting their approval. 

Inactive User Notify Wizard - Step 1

  1. Set how often you want the job to run.
  2. Set the time at which you want this job to start running each day.
  3. Set the time you want the job to stop running each day.
  4. If you want all of the emails generated by the job to go to a specific email address instead of the order approver for the order, enter that email address in this field.
  5. Set the additional recipients of the automated email
  6. Set the additional recipients of the automated email; Other recipients won't be able to see that someone else has been sent a copy of the email using this method.
  7. Set the Email address you'd like to appear as the sender.
  8. Enter the text that you want to appear as the subject line for the Pending Approval email.
  9. Set the maximum number of emails you want a particular approver to receive for the same approval request.
  10. Set how many days you want there to be between consecutive emails sent to the same approver for the same approval request.
  11. Set the minimum number of days you want the email job to wait after an order approval request has been submitted before it sends the first reminder email.
  12. Set the maximum number of days after an order approval request has been submitted that an email would still be sent.

Pending Approval Notify Wizard - Step 2

On the second step, edit the template's HTML to change the email report that will be emailed. After you're done, click "Activate Notification".

You can always go back later to edit this template using the Email Templates tool.  The name of this email template is Automation Job - Approval Awaiting Reminder.

Pending Approval Notify Email Example

This email lets the order approver know when the approval request was created and provides them a link directly to the request.