Restrict Products based on Country

[ultra_mao]

Hi!

I need to restrict some products on the same product category based on some countries. That is, customers in countries A, B and C are not allowed to buy the products in the category. However, the same customers are allowed to buy products in another category. Is there a way to achieve this in Zencart?

Any advise is appreciated.

Thanks!
Jenny

[Ajeh]

How many countries and categories are involved with this?

There are a number of ways to address the issue but knowing more details helps in determining a simple method or a more complicated method to manage this ...

[ultra_mao]

Hi Ajeh,

Thanks for replying.

I'm looking to restrict an entire category to 3 countries. I'm using zencart 1.3.8a.

Thanks.

[Ajeh]

Do customers have to log in before they can add to the shopping cart or can they add to the cart as a guest?

Basically I am trying to determine if the test for what is in the cart and the country can be done "before" the product is added to the cart or has to be checked after the customer logs in ...

[ultra_mao]

actually customers can add to cart even though they haven't log in yet, they can add to cart as guests. so that check has to be done when the customer logs in or creates an account.

[Ajeh]

How do you want this handled?

Do you just want a warning on the shopping cart or an attempt to checkout?

Do you want the Products, once the customer logs in, to not be allowed to be added to the cart if you are one of the 3 countries? Or is the 3 country restriction meaning only people from these countries can buy ... so are the 3 countries NOT allowed to buy these products? or are the 3 countries the ONLY countries that can buy these products?

And the big question is ...

Are the restrictions based on:

Customer Address?

Billing Address?

Shipping Address?

[ultra_mao]

people from these 3 countries are not allowed to buy the products in the category. If they login and they are from these 3 countries, the "add to cart" functionality for the products in the category should be disabled.

As for the address, as long as any of the address has these 3 countries, they are not allowed to buy the products in the category. But they are allowed to buy products from another category.

Thanks!

[Ajeh]

So if the UK was one of the 3 countries not allowed to buy any Product from master_categories_id 33 where categories_id 33 is the Category with these Restricted Products ... and Grandma lived in the UK ...

Grandma CANNOT buy this for herself to send to her UK address ...

Grandma CAN buy this for Tiny Tim and send it to his US address ... (the US being an "allowed" country) ...

Is this correct?

[ningyotan]

I have one type of product I'd like to restrict to Australian buyers only.

Aerosols, is there any easy way to do this?

[Ajeh]

Is it restrict to Australian *buyers* or Australian *shipping* that needs the restriction?

What happens in a mixed cart?