Email Customisation

I would like to customise the order notification emails. I have customised the front end invoice and I would like the customer email to be of a very similar format. I would also like the administrator notification to include allot more detail, essentially to eliminate the need for my accounts team to access the backend of our website.

So with this in mind I have a couple of questions.
1. When are the following emails sent and to whom are they sent?
Order administrator notification
Order creation notification
Order status notification
Order notification
User account

2. Within these templates I see that the variable $data is used to obtain order_number, order_payment_method, order_full_price ect. Can you please point me in the direction of where this is all declared so I can get a comprehensive list of what data is available to call upon when customising the emails? For example I would like to include the coupon code, customer email and tax codes used.

Thank You

Thankyou ,

By Tax codes I just meant which Tax rate was applied.
This should be ok though as I only have one and therefore if there is a Tax value then I know the tax rate.

I have mostly got the Order administrator notification customised now however:

echo 'Email: '.$data->customer->user_email.' returns Email: Array

What code is required to return the email string?

I would also like the same for the customer phone number.

echo 'Email: '.$data->customer->user_email[0];

This does not return the customers email it returns the administrator email. In other words the email to which the notification is being sent.
I would like to display the email address of the customer who bought the products.

$user = hikashop::loadUser(true);
echo 'Email: '.$user->user_email[0];

This has returned the same result. Admin email address.

Thank you that worked.

All my email customisations are now complete.

What file does one need to modify to add customizations to the admin order notification?'
Thanks

Nicolas, i followed this thread to add the customer's email to the admin email template. i got the same results as divine. BUT i couldnt get the last piece of code to work either.
$userCMS =& JFactory::getUser();
echo $userCMS->get('email');

returns null.

the others returned exactly what divine said. an array and then the admin email.

i am using the business edition (latest). joomla 1.5.23

can you help?

thanks liz

hi there, thanks, this returns the following error:
Call to undefined function hiakshop_get() in /..mypathhere../media/com_hikashop/mail/order_admin_notification.html.modified.php on line 10

nicolas, with the typo fixed (i should have seen that)... it returns array.
when i dump the array it returns only one item. our email address not the customers email address.
help!
we really need this.
thanks, Liz

I just used this code lately..
$userClass = hikashop_get('class.user');
$userClass->get(false);
$user = $userClass->get($data->order_user_id);
echo $user->user_email;
This gotta work for u..