Hi Zenophiles, (a branch of Xenophiles?)

Is it possible to create CATEGORIES with restricted (login) access?

The situation is that I have one client who imports goods, and is both selling directly to end customers at recommended retail prices, and to retailers at wholesale prices.

What he needs is CATEGORIES with possibilities for the retailers to order online, but at wholesale prices. Hence the need for username-password RESTRICTED CATEGORIES to keep end customers out.

The most elegant solution would of course have it so that when the retailers order, their login will automatically class them as retailers, and the pricing be accordingly, and have a password protected area with wholesale price lists.

But as a newbie the set up of this is way beyond me, and I cannot find anything even closely relevant.

Also, as an alternative solution, is there a relatively straight-forward way to password protect certain pages in Zen Cart (or other directory) so that each retail customer has a unique username and password to access the price list?

Have searched the web, but none seems too user-friendly.
Looked into a Coffeecup program, but it wasn't very intuitive, and the instructions more confusing than instructive (- just me getting old and demanding?).

Any solutions or suggestions?

Cheers,
shonny