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22 Jan 2009, 3:58 PM
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Limiting which products are available based on Customer Login

I work for a shop that has Resellers entrenched in various businesses, Chambers and Schools. What I need to do is set up one backend, but Limit which products appear in the storefront based on their log in. So only St. Joseph Christian School can see and buy St. Joseph Christian School products. Is there a way to do this?

I've been searching and searching but not finding anything.

22 Jan 2009, 5:50 PM
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Re: Limiting which products are available based on Customer Login

This is slightly tangential, but we did a project for a client in a similar field to you and concluded that duplicating products for each school would create a data structure that would be increasingly difficult to maintain as they grew. So instead we had them identify their actual products i.e. sweatshirt, T-shirt, trousers, etc. Then created a category for each school and linked the products available to each school to their category (we automated much of this and provided filters for color attributes so that only the schools colors showed up in the school's category.

I don't think we went so far as to automatically take a customer to their school's shop when they logged in. But with the above data structure, that would be a simple matter of going from the login to the index listing for the relevant category - though complicated a little if a customer has children at different schools.

22 Jan 2009, 5:56 PM
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Re: Limiting which products are available based on Customer Login

Though I have never used it, the multisite module may provide an option.

See Free Software Addons, for Multisite...

22 Jan 2009, 6:37 PM
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Re: Limiting which products are available based on Customer Login

Thanks. I'll give that Multisite thing a try.:clap: