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Liquid variables in notifications

Alpaca uses liquid to load dynamic content into notifications and order status content. Liquid objects and variable names are denoted by double curly braces: {{ and }}. Notifications have access to the following liquid objects:

• shop
• customer
• order
• attributes
• locations

Shop

The following attributes are available on the shop object.

• shop.name The name of your Shopify store (e.g. Snowdevil).
• shop.domain The domain of your Shopify store (e.g. snowdevil.myshopify.com).
• shop.contact_email The primary contact email of your Shopify store. (e.g. sales@snowdevil.com)

Customer

The following attributes are available on the customer object.

• customer.name The full name of a customer. (e.g. John Smith)
• customer.first_name The first name of a customer (e.g. John)
• customer.last_name The last name of a customer (e.g. Smith)
• customer.email The customer’s email address, if available.
• customer.phone The customer’s phone number, if available.
• customer.locale The customer’s preferred language (e.g. en, fr, es, etc).

Order

The following attributes are available on the order object.

• order.name The human-readable name of orders. (e.g. #1000)
• order.type By default, Alpaca tags every order with the order type. (e.g. alpaca:pickup, alpaca:delivery, alpaca:online)
• order.order_status_url The URL of the order status page.
• order.pickup_schedule_url The URL where customers can go to (re)schedule a pickup time.
• order.delivery_schedule_url The URL where customers can go to (re)schedule a delivery time.

Attributes

• attributes['Pickup location'] The address where customers pick up orders from.
• attributes['Pickup time'] The pickup time selected by the customer, if available.
• attributes['Deliver from'] The address where the order will be delivered from.
• attributes['Delivery time'] The delivery time selected by the customer, if available.

Location

The following attributes are available on the location object.

• location.address The address of this location (e.g. 150 Elgin Street, Ottawa)
• location.name The internal name of this location (e.g. Warehouse)
• location.pickup_instructions The pickup instructions for this location.

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