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Customize the email subject by language

How to use Twig logic in your email templates to set a different email receipt subject line based on the cart's language.

By default, the email receipt’s subject line is set directly on the email template page and isn’t tied to a language string — but you can add Twig logic to your email templates to vary the subject based on the cart’s language.

How it works

The email subject is not itself a language string, with one exception: subscription dunning emails, where the subject is controlled by the language settings using these strings:

  • email subject subscription cancelled

  • email subject subscription past due

  • email subject expiring payment reminder

For the standard email receipt (not dunning emails), you customize the subject per language by adding Twig logic to the top of your email templates.

Steps

  1. 1

    Go to the Foxy admin and open your email templates.

  2. 2

    Add the following Twig snippet to the top of your email templates. Include it in both the text and HTML versions if you’re using both:

{% set custom_subject = "" %}
{% if not is_subscription_dunning_cancellation and not is_subscription_dunning_reminder and not is_expiring_payment_reminder %}
    {% if language == "german" %}
        {% set custom_subject = "German Email Subject Line" %}
    {% elseif language == "french" %}
        {% set custom_subject = "French Email Subject Line" %}
    {% endif %}
{% endif %}
{% if custom_subject != "" %}
    {{ custom_subject|fc_output_data('email_subject') }}
{% endif %}
  1. 1

    Add an {% elseif %} block for each additional language you support, replacing the language value and subject text.

  2. 2

    Save your template.

Notes

  • If none of the conditions match — for example, the cart’s language doesn’t have a custom subject defined — Foxy falls back to the default subject set in your store’s admin.

  • This snippet intentionally excludes subscription dunning emails, since those use their own subject language strings rather than the email template’s subject field.

  • The same approach can be used to customize the bcc and from addresses per language.

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