How to Add New Total to Email in Magento 2

Hello guys! The tutorial today will help the Magento 2 merchants to add the new total block into order email by themselves. As it is necessary when sending your customers the verified email to confirm their purchasing on your store. And your company will be even more reliable when informing your shoppers with the total purchase orders.

However, Magento 2 does not support the available feature of adding the new total block into the confirmation email or email of invoice. Hence, let’s follow the guidance in this post to setup the total block into the order email before sending it to your customers.

Add New Total to Email in 2 Steps

Step 1: Generate the file: sales_email_order_items.xml
Step 2: Create the block new.order.totals

Step 1: Generate the file: sales_email_order_items.xml

Create the file: sales_email_order_items.xml in the etc/frontend folder:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
   <body>
       <referenceBlock name="order_totals">
           <block class="Mageplaza\HelloWorld\Block\Order\Totals" name="new.order.totals" />
       </referenceBlock>
   </body>
</page>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<page xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/page_configuration.xsd">
   <body>
       <referenceBlock name="order_totals">
           <block class="Mageplaza\HelloWorld\Block\Order\Totals" name="new.order.totals" />
       </referenceBlock>
   </body>
</page>

Now the block new.order.totals have been inserted to the order_totals when sending the email.

Step 2: Create the block new.order.totals

Create the block new.order.totals to show the information for the new total.
Create the file : Mageplaza\HelloWorld\Block\Order\Totals.php
In the initTotals() function, insert your logic to calculate the amount which you want to show in the email.

<?php
namespace Mageplaza\HelloWorld\Block\Order;
class Totals extends \Magento\Framework\View\Element\AbstractBlock
{
   public function initTotals()
   {
       $orderTotalsBlock = $this->getParentBlock();
       $order = $orderTotalsBlock->getOrder();
       if ($order->getNewTotalAmount() > 0) {
           $orderTotalsBlock->addTotal(new \Magento\Framework\DataObject([
               'code'       => 'new_total',
               'label'      => __('New Total'),
               'value'      => $order->getNewTotalAmount(),
               'base_value' => $order->getNewTotalBaseAmount(),
           ]), 'subtotal');
       }
   }
}

Save the file.

Wrap up

So this is all you need to add a New Total to Email in Magento 2. Perform all these steps carefully and double-check them to ensure the results come out successfully.

Thank you for reading!

Abandoned Cart Email for Magento 2

Solutions to abandoned carts issue, helping online businesses boost sales and enhance conversion rates (Hyva ready)

Check it out!

Sam Nguyen

Sam is the CEO & co-founder of Mageplaza, a company established to support Magento merchants with different powerful tools and resources. Sam Nguyen is also the CEO & founder of Avada Commerce, an e-commerce solution provider headquartered in Singapore – aiming to support more than a million online businesses to grow and develop.

Previous Magento 2 Unit Test

Next How to Create a Custom Theme in Magento 2?