Email Templates

PicPeak uses customizable HTML email templates for all automated notifications.

Available templates

• Gallery creation --- sent to the customer with the gallery link.
• Expiration warning --- sent before a gallery expires.
• Gallery link resend --- sent when you manually resend the link.

Editing templates

1. Go to Admin > Settings > Email (or the email template section).
2. Select the template to edit.
3. Modify the HTML. Available placeholders include event name, gallery link, password, expiration date, and customer name.
4. Preview the rendered result.
5. Send a test email to verify formatting.

Multilingual support

PicPeak includes English and German email templates out of the box. The template language is selected based on system or event settings.

Translations are managed through the i18n system. Locale files are in frontend/src/i18n/locales/ for the UI and in the backend email service for email content.

Email wrapper

All outgoing emails are wrapped with a consistent layout using the wrapEmailHtml() function in emailProcessor.js. This wrapper applies:

• Standard header with logo
• Consistent typography and spacing
• Footer with branding

The logo URL is derived from FRONTEND_URL. Set this to your publicly accessible domain so email recipients can see images.

Testing

Send test emails from the admin panel to verify your SMTP configuration and template rendering. Check the backend logs if emails are not arriving:

docker compose logs backend | grep email