Send out email automatically when status changes

[saschapi]

Is there a filter or action I can hook into to send out an email automatically if an admin switches the status for a member let’s say from “pending” to “active”? I know that I could train my admins to use the checkbox and send out manually, but it would save a lot of trouble (and forgotten emails) if that would be possible automatically?

Thanks in advance for any hint into this direction. 🙂

Cheers Sascha

[The Assurer]

Are you trying to do this???
https://simple-membership-plugin.com/manually-approve-members-membership-site/

[saschapi]

Thanks for your reply.

Not exactly. In fact I am trying to have both email verification AND manual approval. For our region and the specific task at hand it is a must by some regulation. I got it to work just fine by filtering the status after email approval.

Everything works as it should, I would just love to have an automatic email send out when the account goes to active. Everything else is already working as it should.

[The Assurer]

I believe this is an Either/Or but not both situation, but I will touch base with the developer.

[The Assurer]

Per the developer, it’s an Either/Or but Not both (Exclusive OR) situation. This is made clear in the “yellow box” of the documentation I provided a link to.

[saschapi]

Hi again. Thank you for your answer. I understand that.

That’s why I asked this specific question. So it is NOT possible to send out mail automatically when the account status changes? The answer you gave per the developer tackles the use case, but not my original question if there are any hooks that can be used to send out mails if the account status changes.

[The Assurer]

my original question if there are any hooks that can be used to send out mails if the account status changes.

No.

SWPM is Open Source code. You are more than welcome to hire someone to add the functionality that you require, or you can use our Paid Support service:
https://simple-membership-plugin.com/paid-support-simple-membership-plugin/

[admin]

Hi, If all you need just a hook, we can add a hook.

We are generally very receptive to incorporating new action or filter hooks into our plugins. If you have specific suggestions, please feel free to indicate the exact file and line number where you believe a hook would be beneficial. Alternatively, you are welcome to submit a pull request with your proposed hook to our plugin’s GitHub repository.

[saschapi]

@all I found the hook that I need in the code. It is already there. 🙂

For anybody else that is looking for something like this. I implemented the following action in a plugin to send out an email automatically if the status from a member switches from “pending” to “active”. It uses the subject and body text from the bulk status update emails.

// Add Action Hook to Account status change
add_action('swpm_admin_account_status_updated','send_email_at_status_change', 10, 1 );
function send_email_at_status_change($info_array) {
	
			$member_id = $info_array['member_id'];
			$from_status = $info_array['from_status'];
			$to_status = $info_array['to_status'];
	
			if($from_status == 'pending' && $to_status == 'active') {
				
				$settings = SwpmSettings::get_instance();

				$to_email = SwpmMemberUtils::get_member_field_by_id($member_id,'email');
				
				$subject = $settings->get_value( 'bulk-activate-notify-mail-subject' );
				if ( empty( $subject ) ) {
								$subject = 'Account Activated!';
				}
				$body = $settings->get_value( 'bulk-activate-notify-mail-body' );
				if ( empty( $body ) ) {
								$body = 'Hi, Your account has been activated successfully!';
				}

				$from_address = $settings->get_value( 'email-from' );
				$headers = 'From: ' . $from_address . "\r\n";

				//Send the activation email one by one to all the selected members.
				$subject = apply_filters( 'swpm_email_bulk_set_status_subject', $subject );
				$body = apply_filters( 'swpm_email_bulk_set_status_body', $body ).' ID/from/to: ';
				$to_email = trim($to_email);
				SwpmMiscUtils::mail( $to_email, $subject, $body, $headers );
				SwpmLog::log_simple_debug( 'Bulk activation email notification sent. Activation email sent to the following email: ' . $to_email, true );
				
			}
                        
}

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