I want user with company name automatically assigned to specific group

Hi,

Really struggling with this - been searching forever and can't find out how to do this. If I have missed a thread with relevant info then sorry - please point me in the right direction.

But what I want is that IF a customer adds a company name when registering, they automatically get put into the 'Trade' group that I created, which will give them an immediate discount.

I realise that anyone could enter a company name in the hope of getting a discount but this isn't a problem because while the order is being processed, which takes a few days, I will be contacting them for further details.

So all I want is for them to automatically be assigned to my 'Trade' group so that they can order immediately at the discounted price.

Here's my version info:

Zen Cart 1.3.8a
Patch: 1::
Database Patch Level: 1.3.8

Can anyone help me figure this out. I'm tearing hair out in clumps now! :-)

Jon.

Nothing is built in to do this. You would have to customize the signup process by writing code.

Yes, thanks - I realised there would be some editing to do. But I have no clue what to edit or what changes to make. That's the part I need the help with.

I know how to edit the files as I have already done a few mods so all I need is the name of the file to edit and the changes that need to be made. I have looked at some of the files but I can't figure it out.

In includes/functions/functions_customers.php I did find this code:

if ( (ACCOUNT_COMPANY == 'true') && (zen_not_null($company)) ) {

  $address_out = $company . $cr . $address_out;

}

The stars are not in there but I added them here because I'm wondering if this is a place where I could insert code to put the customer into a group? I'm assuming that at this point a company name is in use.

Please can someone let me know if I'm in the right area. Thanks.

Mmmm - having thought about this, maybe not. Obviously, I only need to set this up once at registration and I assume adding code here would keep on assigning to the group each time this function is called...

Looks like I might have half the code I need - I just don't know what to add to it and where it needs to go...

Can this part be used?

if ( (ACCOUNT_COMPANY == 'true') && (zen_not_null($company)) ) {

ADD CODE HERE TO ASSIGN TO A GROUP NAMED 'Trade'

}

Close? Miles off? I'm half guessing really so any help would be appreciated.

Here's how to have ALL customers join a particular group: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123132
You can adapt it to have it use a different group number depending on whether certain fields have been filled in, or whatever.

Thank you! That works great. I had to make a minor change so here's what I did, in case anyone else is trying to do the same thing:

First I created two groups - Trade (1) and Standard (2). Trade has 30% off and Standard has 0% off.

Then I edited /includes/modules/create_account.php

if ( (ACCOUNT_COMPANY == 'true') && (zen_not_null($company)) ) {

$grp = 1;

} else {

$grp = 2;

}

if ($error == true) {

// hook notifier class

$zco_notifier->notify('NOTIFY_FAILURE_DURING_CREATE_ACCOUNT');

} else {

$sql_data_array = array('customers_firstname' => $firstname,

                        'customers_lastname' => $lastname,

                        'customers_email_address' => $email_address,

                        'customers_nick' => $nick,

                        'customers_telephone' => $telephone,

                        'customers_fax' => $fax,

                        'customers_newsletter' => (int)$newsletter,

                        'customers_email_format' => $email_format,

'customers_group_pricing' => $grp,

                        'customers_default_address_id' => 0,

                        'customers_password' => zen_encrypt_password($password),

                        'customers_authorization' => (int)CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL_AUTHORIZATION

);

Not sure if that's the best way to get that working but it does so I hope it helps someone else. Thanks again for the help.

This is helpful I have one small question... What if you have a certain company you want to be assigned to a specific group? how would that look in the code?

Could you do this??

if ( (ACCOUNT_COMPANY == 'ACME') && (zen_not_null($company)) ) {

$grp = 1;

} else {

$grp = 2;

No.

This would be more appropriate:
Change this:```
if ( (ACCOUNT_COMPANY == 'true') && (zen_not_null($company)) ) {

$grp = 1;

} else {

$grp = 2;

}
to this:
if ( (ACCOUNT_COMPANY == 'true') && ($company == 'ABC Company')) ) {

$grp = 1;

}

Ahh I see thanks ... wait what line was this on ??...

Regarding the all "Group Pricing Per Item" issue:
I did all (I think...) I asked in the instruction of:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=256

When I making some test order proccess:
The Shopping Cart contain the right Sub-Total OK and the right total group price. BUT, when I continu to the checkout page:
in Step 2 of 3 - Payment Information and also
in Step 3 of 3 - Order Confirmation and also
in the Order Confirmation email

The Total shown is the regular price and not the group price. why?