How can I limit one items quanity as one per customer?

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I want to sell an item as a one time sale in my store but I want to limit this one item. I only want to sell one per customer. Everything else in the store they can purchase as many as they want.

Any help would be appreciated.

[MUtester]

if you go into your catalog, than categories, select the product you want to limit, you will find an option "Product Qty Maximum:"

If you set this to "1" the customer should only be allowed to buy one of this specific product...

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Thank you very much.

[Ajeh]

NOTE: that prevents more than 1 per order but will not stop them from buying again in another order ... is that a problem?

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NOTE: that prevents more than 1 per order but will not stop them from buying again in another order ... is that a problem?

Yes it could be a problem. Is there any other way of doing it without going in and doing some coding?

[Ajeh]

Afraid not ... in order to check that the customer only buys 1 for forever ... you would need to add some custom code to check the orders_products table for the customer to see if the product is already ordered and if so, disable the Add to Cart for it ...

This is not impossible to do, but it will require custom coding ... have you got your coder's hat on?

[Carolc]

if you go into your catalog, than categories, select the product you want to limit, you will find an option "Product Qty Maximum:"

If you set this to "1" the customer should only be allowed to buy one of this specific product...

Is there a way to default this field to "1"? All items on my site are for download, so if they order more than one it would be by mistake.