Hi everyone,

I'm possibly taking on my 4th Zencart project in as many months but this particular woman needs something a little different than just a standard shopping cart solution. The following is a rough description of what is possibly needed...

Instead of individuals coming to the site and creating an individual account where they go on to shop with their credit card or paypal, etc I'm thinking that people become members of this supply company and have their user access and member type or 'entity level' set by an administrator and each individual entity level has it's own rules that apply to it.

For instance say 'Community Care Center' signs up for an account. An administative worker then creates their account for them and associates that individual account with 'entity level 100'. Rules for 'entity level 100' are somehow already set to allow every account under this entity level to have access to more items than say someone under 'entity level 200'. Now 'entity level 200' will have it's own unique quality as well and so on. This is a glib description but I'm still in the dark to all the details. I don't see a need for many levels but you get the point.

I'm kinda thinking I could use attributes to set the 'rules' somehow if I'm creative? Like if varying user levels are possible, then applying specific attributes to the different user levels?

Also, instead of a 'complete sale' being made for each purchase, the sales for each account will accumulate and the purchasers will be billed monthly, quarterly, etc. I'm not sure if an invoice will be issued or if the businesses have credit accounts that will be billed yet.

Each 'entity' would be able to log in and simply check stock levels on the items they are allowed to purchase as well.

Off the top of my head, Joomla sounds like it would be good for the user access but they want to sell product and evidently quite a bit of product so obviously I'd rather use Zencart if possible.

I just wanted to get some feedback before I ask her more detailed questions.

Thanks