How to disable email sending when programatically creating an order in Magento

23rd JUL 2010 | Posted by in Email, Magento, Orders
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Here is a little snippet of code that can come in handy if you are like me handling a task of programatically creating an order in Magento. My issue was that I had to disable emails beeing sent out to the customers, while at the same time leave the normal frontend process. Thus I could not just go under Magento admin System > Congifuration and disable email sending from there.

Here is the sample line code you just need to place above final $order->save() or possibly $checkout->saveOrder():

Mage::app()->getStore()->setConfig(Mage_Sales_Model_Order::XML_PATH_EMAIL_ENABLED, "0");
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Vedran Subotic

Ex. Inchooer

Vedran worked in Inchoo from 2009 to 2012 as a Senior backend developer and as a team leader.

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  1. Jonathan Day
    23-07-2010 at 13:56 | #

    nice. I assume it needs to be turned back on again after saving the order?

  2. Tomas Novoseli?
    26-07-2010 at 6:08 | #

    @Jonathan
    Config is not saved so you don’t need to turn anything back. This code is merely used to overide saved config value at the moment you need it.

  3. David
    12-11-2010 at 13:05 | #

    Interestingly this doesn’t seem to work with the newsletter subscription. The email is still sent.

    Mage::app()->getStore()->setConfig(Mage_Sales_Model_Order::XML_PATH_EMAIL_ENABLED, "0");
Mage::getModel('newsletter/subscriber')->subscribe('example@example.com');

    This is on CE 1.4.

  4. nico
    30-12-2010 at 12:25 | #

    Hi,

    thanks for sharing this tip, but I havea slightly different problem and maybe you can help.

    When I’m enabling the ordermail system-> configuration -> Sales Email -> Order
    both the customer and the admin get the same email.

    But I just want the admin to get the email because theres another backend sending the emails to the customer.

    Do you have an idea?

  5. -G-
    08-02-2011 at 0:38 | #

    Can I disable the Order Confirmation email only ?

    Customers receive 3 auto emails.

    Order confirmation, order complete & Order shipped.

    latter are processed at the same time and are redundant.

    Thanks -

  6. robin
    01-12-2011 at 11:56 | #

    Can I disable the welcome e-mail?
    I have a silent account creation so customers don’t need to register explicitly, but an account is made so they can check their order status.
    They receive 3 e-mails when placing an order: welcome email, separate password email and confirmation email

  7. Vedran Subotic
    01-12-2011 at 12:33 | #

    @robin

    sure you can…
    try to trace the code in the class:

    Mage_Customer_Model_Customer

    and trace which XML_PATH you need

  8. Kurtis
    11-01-2012 at 2:37 | #

    @robin

    This worked for me

    Mage::app()->getStore()->setConfig(Mage_Customer_Model_Customer::XML_PATH_REGISTER_EMAIL_TEMPLATE, "0");
				Mage::app()->getStore()->setConfig(Mage_Customer_Model_Customer::XML_PATH_REGISTER_EMAIL_IDENTITY, "0");

    in a custom customer.php file we have. Worked for my english store, but not in my french store. ;P

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