

The rules list, showing each rule's trigger, targeting, delivery mode and status.
Some products need to say something the rest of the order does not — licence terms for a
download, or a lead time for a made-to-order item. Write that message once, choose which
products it applies to, and decide when it goes out. It runs through WooCommerce’s own
email system.
A rule is one message plus the conditions under which it is sent, and a store can have as
many as it needs. Trigger, timing, recipients and subject belong to a rule sent as its own
email; an inserted rule takes those from the WooCommerce email it joins.
These apply to a rule sent as its own email. An inserted rule has no trigger of its own:
WooCommerce decides when its email sends.
Target a rule by individual products or variations, product categories, tags or product
type. Each selector can include or exclude products. An item matches any selected
include, while a matching exclusion always wins. Choose “Every product in the order”
to start broadly and then exclude exceptions.
Two modes, chosen per rule:
Both of these belong to a rule sent as its own email. It can wait — seconds, minutes,
hours or days after the trigger — queued through Action Scheduler, WooCommerce’s own
background queue. And when it matches several products in one order, you choose: one
message for the order, listing the matched products, or one message per product.
Recipients belong to a rule sent as its own email. A line can be the word customer for
the order’s billing address, admin for the site administrator, or any email address, and
a rule can carry separate To, Cc and Bcc lists. A rule with no To recipient sends nothing
and records that as the reason. An inserted rule has none of its own: its content goes into
the WooCommerce email already being sent, to whoever that email is addressed to.
Body content can carry placeholders filled in from the live order: customer name, email
and phone; order number, date, status, total and payment method; billing and shipping
addresses; store name and sender address; the matched product’s name, SKU, quantity and
variation attributes; list placeholders covering every matched product; and custom fields.
A separate email takes them in its subject and heading too, and the rule editor lists each
one with a description.
Every automatic delivery is recorded — rule, order, recipient, subject line, whether it
succeeded and the reason if it did not — store-wide on its own screen and per-order on the
order edit screen. Details go with a personal-data erasure request, or when you remove the
plugin’s data; nothing is cleared on a schedule in this release.
From an order you can send any eligible rule’s message on demand, resend one already sent,
and send or cancel one waiting on its delay — each behind a confirmation naming the
recipient.
Messages use WooCommerce’s email templates. Compatibility with theme overrides and
third-party email customizers varies. Preview rules and verify insert mode with a real
test order. The plugin declares compatibility with High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)
and is tested with it enabled.