The hideCategories mod wasn't quite what I was looking for. I was looking for something like a product staus of "Manual" in addition to OFF, ON, and Linked. Any product with a status of "Manual" does not appear on the web store unless manually linked to a customer id.
Below the "Options" section of the "Customers" page, a new section for manually linked products would be added. The data would be stored in a table and then a query used to retrieve the products after the normal product listing query is run.
Or maybe Zen Cart already has similar functionality and it's just not immediatley obvious. I just thought, "categories, products, customers, groups" and figured there'd be a way to have products only certain groups could see.
There is nothing that functions exactly as you describe. Coding this would be a very large job.
HideCategories gives the same end result in a different way - it will not let a (sub)category (which can have one or more products in it) be visible to anyone but the customer or customers you specify.
If the readme documentation with the mod doesn't give enough information, look for the hideCategories support thread in Contributions. I haven't used it so can't say more about it.
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