For the longest time I’ve been wanting a cash register sound to play whenever I get a sale notification from ClickBank. After months of searching I finally found a program that would allow me to do that. Okay, I admit, things have been a little slow this month and I may have been a little bored, but it’s very cool and motivating every time I hear my ka-ching! This is how I did it…

First I needed a really cool cash register sound file. I discovered a very useful site called FindSounds that searches the net for all types of wav files. I simply typed in “cash register” and found over 50 sounds! This sure beats that $10 CD of sound effects I bought from Best Buy! The sound I decided to use was kaching.wav, click to hear it.

Thunderbird comes with plenty of email filter options but unfortunately sound isn’t one of them. After months of searching I finally gave up for a while. Then today after searching for it again I came across MailBox Alert. MailBox Alert is a free extension that installs into Thunderbird and they recently added sound as one of their options! Now I could finally start hearing the sweet sound of money every time I made a sale!

So once I installed the extension I set up a filter to sort all my ClickBank sale notifications into a separate folder. Then I simply set my Mailbox Alert settings for that folder to play my sound file evertyime it receives an email! KA-CHING!!!

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2 Comments on “Cash Register Sound for Thunderbird Emails”

1. 
   Comment by West - August 21, 2006 @ 12:58 pm

   You can config Thunderbird Notification Sounds by clicking on Tools, Options, General is default, then config sounds at the bottom.
   And an easy way to tape your custom sound is to bring up MSN Instant Messenger, and click on the little speaker buttons in the emoticon icons, and then speak or play music, then let go and it will appear in the sent message area, then click on Play/Edit or Save_As and save it to your computer, and insert it in sounds in Thunderbird.
   Peace. West

2. 
   Comment by Miles Baker - August 21, 2006 @ 1:02 pm

   Yeah, you can do that, however that’s for ALL incoming emails. The solution I posted about was for specific sales-notification emails. But thanks for your comment.

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