Email Receipts

This guide will show you how to email your sales receipts.

In TAKU Retail you are able to email the receipt to the customer directly from the sales register. In order to be able to email receipts you must set up the SMTP server.

To set up the SMTP server go to Settings > Stores > Current Store.

Click on the Email Settings card.

The Email Settings page will open where you can add the details to set up your SMTP server. To get the information required to set up your SMTP server, you will need to find the SMTP server details from your email provider.

Under the SMTP Server Options section:

• SMTP Host: Enter your SMTP host.

  • To find your SMTP Host, click on the following links.

    • Find your SMTP server address

    • How to find your SMTP host and port number

• Port: enter the port number from your email provider.

• Encryption: Select your encryption method based on the port number and encryption method

  • Click the following links for more information on encryption

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    • [SSL encryption](https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-privacy-what-is-encryption.html#:~:text=Using encryption via,is a must.)

    • [TLS encryption](https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/learning/ssl/transport-layer-security-tls/#:~:text=What is Transport,published in 2018.)

• Authentication: Toggle between ON or OFF.

• Username: enter the email address you will be using to send emails to your customer.

• Password: this password will be set up by your email provider as an app password if you are using Outlook or Gmail. For all other email providers this is will be your email password.

Once you have entered the details to set up your SMTP server, click the Save icon at the top right hand corner to save your changes.