Add email address at checkout

I have the basic version. For some customers (eg a school) I give out one Joomla registration for all to share. When the customer places an order they are asked to enter name and address. But there is no email field and the confirming email goes to the Joomla recorded email - which is me.

How do I change this so that I record each user's individual email address along with their shipping details, and have the shop system send their confirming email directly to them? This has become more important since I have started to sell downloads. They need to receive the confirmation instantly so that they can download their file.

In HikaShop > Display > Custom fields you can publish the field "address_email" and it will be asked during the checkout.

I added email as a special field (it was not in the default list). It appeared at the bottom of the address list at checkout time. But the confirming email still went to the Joomla logged in name. That means that the customer had no way of getting the download file.

You probably need a small customization done to hook into the order confirmation step, to send a new email to the email address entered into that custom field. If you know PHP you can do it yourself, or hire a developer to handle it. Shouldn't be more than a few hours of work for someone who knows HikaShop well, assuming you don't want anything too fancy in the email.

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That's actually quite easy to link the custom field with the email if you have the Business edition.
You can go in the menu System->Emails and edit your order creation/status notifications and add a line like that at the end:

<?php $data->customer->user_email = $data->cart->billing_address->address_email; ?>