Hi Everyone,

We have a client that is requesting a way that their customers can enter certain dates (such as spouse’s birthday) when they create an account. Once that info is entered, they would like an automatic email to be sent out to the customer a couple of weeks before that date reminding them of the occasion coming up with suggested products for them to buy.

Is there anyway to manipulate PrestaShop the way it is now to do this? Or is this something that can be added in a future release?

I would be tempted to create this as a stand-alone table, linked to the customer via the customer_id. You could then provide an interface in the account to “Manage your birthday reminders list” and potentially extend this to multiple family birthdays. It’s a kind of variation on the “wish-list” if you like.

You would then need to create (integrated into the PrestaShop template and page display scheme) pages to allow listing, adding to and editing the “birthday list”. Most of the code is fairly generic and would not be particularly specific to PrestaShop, but may benefit from using it’s object framework for the database encapsulation.

In the background you would also need a cron job to check the dates on all customers’ lists and send emails as appropriate containing the suggested “presents”; not sure how you would match appropriate products though?

Entirely do-able, with limited modification to the PrestaShop “core”. Interesting idea!

Paul