How to change email template when emailing abandoned cart customers

Topic summary

A Shopify store owner wants to customize the default email message that appears when clicking customer emails in the abandoned carts section. Currently, a generic “Complete your purchase while orders are still available” message opens in Outlook.

Current Limitation:

  • The default email body text is hardcoded by Shopify and cannot be modified directly.

Suggested Solution:

  • Use the official “Shopify Email” app to design custom abandoned cart email templates.
  • This app allows creating branded, personalized emails that can be sent automatically to customers who abandon their carts.

Status: The discussion provides a workaround rather than a direct solution to modifying the click-to-email template. The question of whether the Shopify Email app fully replaces the default behavior remains partially addressed.

Summarized with AI on November 4. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

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When clicking on customers emails on the abandoned carts section I would like to have my own custom message that opens up on Outlook, instead of the “Complete your purchase while orders are still available”

How do I do this?

It seems that we can’t modify this email “body” text.It is hardcoded by Shopify.
Maybe you can try the official “Shopify Email” app to design “the abandoned carts” email template and send the email automatically