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

[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...

[attroll]

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?

[attroll]

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?

[demiurgia]

Would there be a way to set this as a default so it dopesn't have to be manually done with each new product. i have had 2 orders this week with customers ordering the same product twice[and they are digital products]. I have default as no quantity box so they must have placed in the same cart twice. I would love to be able to set so they cannot order more than 1.

[Ajeh]

Again, you would need to customize the code to check the customer's previous orders to see if a product has been purchased before ...

Are you trying to prevent the customer from buying more than once just because it is dumb? Or is there another reason that you need to do this?

[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.