1. Configure settings of the customer reminder for Store Reviews
Go to module settings -> tab «Store Reviews» -> tab «Customer Reminder settings»
Here you can configure:
- Enable or Disable Send a review reminder by email to customers (If activated, when a customer purchases a product on your shop, an e-mail will be sent to him after X days (specify below after selecting "yes" here) to invite him to rate the shop.)
- Delay between each email in seconds (The delay is intended in order to your server is not blocked the email function)
- Number of emails for each cron call (This will reduce the load on your server. The more powerful your server - the more emails you can do for each CRON call!)
- Delay for sending reminder by email (We recommend you enter at least 7 days here to have enough time to process the order and for the customer to receive it.)
- Send emails only for the orders with the current selected status (This feature prevents customers to leave a review for orders that they haven't received yet. You must choose at least one status.)
- Send a review reminder by email to customer when customer already write review in shop? (Enable or Disable)
- Send a review reminder by email to customers a second time? (This feature allows you to send a second time the opinion request emails that have already been sent.)
- Days after the first emails were sent (in days)
2. Import old orders for customer reminder for Store Reviews
Go to module settings -> tab «Store Reviews» -> tab «Customer Reminder settings»
Here you can:
- select «start date» (Please select a date. All orders placed between that start date and end date (today) will be imported.)
- click «Import old orders» button
3. Configure CRON task for customer reminder
You can configure sending email messages through cron. You have 2 possibilities:
1. You can enter the following url in your browser: http://www.yoursite.com/module/{MODULE_NAME}/cronshopreviews?token={your_cron_token}
2. You can set a cron's task (a recursive task that fulfills the sending of reminders)
The task run every hour: * */1 * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q http://www.yoursite.com/module/{MODULE_NAME}/cronshopreviews?token={your_cron_token}
How to configure a cron task ?
On your server, the interface allows you to configure cron's tasks
About CRON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
{MODULE_NAME}:
"Product, Shop Reviews, Reminder, Profile, Rich Snippets" - spmgsnipreview
"Product Reviews + Shop Reviews, Reminder, User Profile" - spmprodstorerev
www.yoursite.com - this is your site URL
{your_cron_token} - this is your unique token
4. Customer reminder statistics for Store Reviews
Go to module settings -> tab «Store Reviews» -> tab «Customer Reminder statistics»
Here you can:
- Filter orders by «start date» and «end date»
- See orders and «Send order manually» to customer (send manually customer reminder)
- See customer already wrote review for Store