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Email & Newsletter Templates

This feature is in beta

Email & Newsletter Templates is currently in beta (0.1.0, requires Hyvä CMS 1.3.0-beta1). Features, configuration, and the developer API are still evolving and may change - possibly in backwards-incompatible ways - before the general release. We don't recommend using it in production yet; if you do, expect that upgrading to later versions may require rework. See Release Process & Status for what beta means, and the beta upgrade notes for how to install beta versions.

Hyvä Email & Newsletter Templates brings the Hyvä CMS Liveview Editor to your transactional emails and newsletters. Instead of hand-editing Magento email HTML, you compose emails visually from email-safe components - headings, text, buttons, order summaries, tracking info, and more - with a live preview that shows exactly what your customers will receive.

The module covers two content types:

  • Email Templates - Magento transactional emails (order confirmation, invoice, shipment, credit memo, password reset, customer account emails, and any custom template).
  • Newsletter Templates - Magento newsletter campaigns, sent through the standard newsletter queue.

Both share the same components, editor, and configuration, so once you know one, you know both.

Key Features

  • Visual editing with the same Liveview Editor used for Hyvä CMS pages and blocks
  • Email-safe components that render as bulletproof table-based HTML with inlined CSS
  • Ready-made presets for all common transactional emails, so you never start from a blank canvas
  • Dynamic content through Magento directives such as {{var order_data.customer_name}}, inserted from a variable picker
  • Live preview with realistic dummy data, including a real order of your choice
  • Email client simulation and health checks - catch accessibility and compatibility issues before you send
  • Test sends to your own inbox
  • Version history so you can safely iterate

Do I need Hyvä CMS?

Yes. Email & Newsletter Templates is a feature module for Hyvä CMS and requires the Hyvä CMS module to be installed and enabled. See the Hyvä CMS documentation.

Do my emails still work with my existing theme?

Yes. The module renders complete standalone email HTML. Your storefront theme does not need any changes, and emails built with the editor work with any theme, including non-Hyvä themes.

What happens to templates I don't convert?

Nothing. The Hyvä editor is opt-in per template. Templates without the Hyvä editor enabled continue to render exactly as before.