Products for certain customers

[magicmarc]

I have searched, but its hard to know what terms to search for.

I want to have my setup so that certain chosen customers can have access to certain products, and others cannot.

How do i go about this?

Sorry to be dumb,

Marc

[Ajeh]

This would require some custom coding ... it is not part of Zen Cart at this time ...

[magicmarc]

Could anyone help me with this coding? or perhaps has anyone done this before?

Are there not any workarounds that zen supports, like hiding products from certain customers, or putting the customers in certain groups?

Is there a way to group customers, so orders from certain customers can be denied if they contain certain products?


Many thanks if any of these questions can be answered.

[Ajeh]

You would want these filters on the products to happen to people not logged in and once logged in have the products flags as what should or should not show based on the customer login ...

This can be done with extra data in the customers table to determin who is who as well as extra data in the products table to determin which products are affected ...

Then all of the select statements would need to be altered or the displays to only show these products to the right customers ...

Again, this is not built into Zen Cart but could be customized for it ...

[poosk]

interesting idea, I've been thinking about using zen cart group pricing option... Could it be used to create groups so different users would have some priviledges, extra products, extra news (using newsmanager) and so on. but I haven't got really far yet. Any idea ajeh where to start and is it possible to do.

[magicmarc]

Indeed.
I didnt realize zen didnt support this already, but still, would be great if someone could construct this.