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29 Mar 2009, 8:47 PM
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Password Protecting my site

Hi there,

I have a Zencart site which sells children's books.

I would like to password protect my site so that only subscribers can view the contents. The reason for this is that my Unique Selling Point is that the books I sell are the ones that come very highly recommended from children themselves(based on work that I do in schools). In this way we provide more of a service to children , parents and teachers than standard web booksellers, recommending all the "5 star" books that the kids love and therefore encouraging them to read. I think customers are currently coming onto the site, listing the books we sell and going to buy them somewhere cheaper(I can't compete with the big booksellers on price!)

I think, therefore, the only way to make this a viable business is to "sell" my knowledge about the best books to subscribers. I have been told that you cannot password protect individual categories in Zencart. I wondered whether anyone knew if I can password protect the whole site or perhaps set up just a few extra pages that would then take you through to the existing site with a subscribers username and password?

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

29 Mar 2009, 8:52 PM
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Re: Password Protecting my site

Look at:-

Admin>>>Configuration>>>My Store>>>Store Status

and

Admin>>>Configuration>>>Customer Details>>>Customer Shop Status - View Shop and Prices

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31 Mar 2009, 4:40 PM
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Re: Password Protecting my site

Thanks for your help, schoolboy. I'll look into this.