Email Notification when a new customer has been added - Magento

Question

I would like to send an email notification to my store\'s contact email address every time when a new customer has been Registered.

I don\'t want to purchase any kin

Answer 1

As an alternative to an event based approach, you could run a separate API based script to fetch new (or updated) customers and email them to you, it may or may not be desirable for you to get a once-per-day list rather than an email for every single customer too.

Benefits:

• Nothing installed in your Magento store
• Does not add any extra processing or network delays to a new/updated customer operation
• Opportunity to batch all emails for a day into one email

Here's an example I used recently which is almost exactly what you want, which is why this caught my eye. Code is available here.

$client =
   new SoapClient('http://www.yourstore.com/magento/api/soap?wsdl');
 $session = $client->login('TEST_USER', 'TEST_PASSWORD');

 $since = date("Y-m-d", strtotime('-1 day'));
 // use created_at for only new customers
 $filters = array('updated_at' => array('from' => $since)); 


 $result = $client->call($session, 'customer.list', array($filters));

 $email = "New customers since: $since\n";

 foreach ($result as $customer) {
         $email .= $customer["firstname"] ." ".
                     $customer["lastname"] . ", " .
                     $customer["email"] . "\n";
 }

mail("customer-manager@yourstore.com", "Customer report for: $since", $email);