notification email doesn't show shipping method

I've noticed that the notification email that goes to the shopping cart administrator doesn't show the type of shipping the customer has picked. The order notification does say "Shipping Method:" but its right next to just the cost of shipping, it however doesn't suggest to the administrator what shipping the customer has chosen. I'm using the USPS module and if, for example, a customer orders product and chooses to ship via Priority Mail, the only way the administrator would know that is if they log into the system and go through the order. Shouldn't this information be in the email that they receive?

Hi there,

The information display is the right one.
If you want to display the shipping method you'll have to edit the email in Configuration>Email and add something like

echo '<tr><td colspan="'.$colspan.'" style="text-align:right">'.JText::_('HIKASHOP_SHIPPING').' : ';echo $data->order_shipping_name.'</td></tr>';

There is no Configuration>Email option for me to edit the email . . . This was something I had a problem with before and was told I needed to "pay more money" in order to have the "feature" of being able to change what emails are sent and how the emails look. This really is a problem. This feature should be built in to all the versions of Hikashop, it's simply a core feature that's almost a deal breaker on every level. Nowhere in the feature list of any of the Hikashop versions does it say that you don't have the ability to control the way the shopping cart system communicates with the customers, and yet, in order to have the ability to do this, I have to purchase the Business edition? I've gone through the feature comparisons and none of my customers need anything that the Business edition has to off above the Essentials edition and yet in order to control email functions I'm going to have to buy it anyways?

If I'm incorrect on this, please let me know where I might be going wrong in finding the Configuration>Email option in my shop . . .

Thank you for your reply, I appreciate the advice and I will look into making the changes.

I'm a developer too and I understand the need to charge appropriately for your work, and I was not suggesting the inclusion of all the features you offer in the free version. But something as integral as the email system doesn't seem to be a "feature" but more of a core need of the system. And, even if we disagree on that, if it is indeed considered a "feature" then it should be mentioned on your comparison charts for the different versions of your product so we can make educated decisions about our purchases. My customers wouldn't hesitate to pay the extra, but I'm placed into a situation that I either eat the cost of the upgrade or I have to go back to my customer and tell them I made a mistake.

You have a great product, wonderful support and I think the end result is awesome. I'm coming from a background of using some competing components and your's is well worth the investment. None of the issues I've run into have been deal breakers.

Back to the original post, I took a look around at the email code and this particular piece of code was already there:

echo '<tr><td colspan="'.$colspan.'" style="text-align:right">'.JText::_('HIKASHOP_SHIPPING').' : ';
echo $data->order_shipping_name.'</td></tr>';

However, the $data->order_shipping_name doesn't seem to contain anything as it is coming out empty. I'm getting the JText showing up as expected, however there is no value next to it. is "order_shipping_name" correct?

Neither of those ways work correctly, they both give the "shipping id" or whatever the number is. I did discover that the numbers that are attached are unique to each shipping method and so I made a simple key to translate the numbers into actual usable text with a few if/then statements in PHP. Not pretty, but works like a champ.