Getting Magento to send email when a payment is received - magento

Question

I don't believe Magento has an out of box method of sending an email to inform the owner when a payment has been received so is there any way that this can be programmed?
So far I have read this but it looks like it might be more focused on sending the email to the customer instead of the vendor; and this but apart from being completely lost ( as by the sound of it was the OP ) one person said accepted answer was a bit out of date and also I'm not sure it's what I need anyway.

Answer 1

Basically, what you need is (surprise) an observer module to do exactly that. Also, it is quite the same work in one of the links you provided.
To make a barebones observer module, you only need three files:
/app/etc/modules/Electricjesus_Notifyowner.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<Electricjesus_Notifyowner>
<active>true</active>
<codePool>local</codePool>
</Electricjesus_Notifyowner >
</modules>
</config>
/app/code/local/Electricjesus/Notifyowner/etc/config.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<modules>
<Electricjesus_Notifyowner>
<version>0.1.0</version>
</Electricjesus_Notifyowner>
</modules>
<global>
<models>
<notifyowner>
<class>Electricjesus_Notifyowner_Model</class>
</notifyowner>
</models>
<events>
<sales_order_payment_pay>
<observers>
<notifyOwnerEvent>
<class>notifyowner/observer</class>
<method>notifyOwnerEvent</method>
</notifyOwnerEvent>
</observers>
</sales_order_payment_pay >
</events>
</global>
</config>
/app/code/local/Electricjesus/Notifyowner/Model/Observer.php
<?php
class Electricjesus_Notifyowner_Model_Observer
{
public function notifyOwnerEvent($observer)
{
// parameters you can get from the $observer parameter:
// array(’payment’ ? $this, ‘invoice’ ? $invoice)
$payment = $observer->getPayment();
$invoice = $observer->getInvoice();
// derivative data
$order = $invoice->getOrder(); // Mage_Sales_Model_Order
$ownerEmail = 'owner#shop.com';
/*
- build data
- build email structure
- send email via any php mailer method you want
*/
return $this; // always return $this.
}
}
You can also use other events in place of sales_order_payment_pay (see config.xml). See this list for a semi-complete list of events along with their parameters. And on this document to is some techniques to check/get an update of the current list of events with their parameters.
I recommend using Zend_Mail to do your mail stuff inside the observer. Nothing special, I'm just biased towards Zend stuff.
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.mail.html
--- EDIT
if you want a ready-made extension to do this (and more) and if you do not mind paying for it, you can take a look at:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/admin-email-notifications.html