In this episode, we're diving into how to send a confirmation email when a customer completes a purchase. First, we talk about setting up your local development environment for sending emails. While Laravel comes preconfigured for Mailpit, you can use any fake email service (the video uses a tool named Hello, but feel free to stick with what works for you).
With your local email testing sorted, we go through generating a new Markdown-based mail in Laravel with artisan make:mail, naming it PurchaseConfirmation. This lets us build a nicely-styled email with some basic formatting. We set up the mail class to accept the sale information so we can personalize the email: for instance, saying "Thanks for purchasing {product title}!".
We walk through sending the email when the webhook fires after a successful purchase, passing the correct customer email and sale info into the message. Then we do a test purchase and check out the message in the mail client, confirming it's all working.
Lastly, we update the actual content in the Markdown email template, making it say thanks, mention the specific product the customer bought, and include a button—ready for adding a download link in the next steps. Overall, we see the whole flow from configuring email locally, to sending, testing, and customizing a Laravel confirmation email.