Is there a way to create a custom product ...

Hi,

I'm often creating custom products for my customers. Is there a way to add such a product to my shopping cart such that only the customer for which the product is created can view/purchase it?

SoyCandleMaker:

I'm often creating custom products for my customers. Is there a way to add such a product to my shopping cart such that only the customer for which the product is created can view/purchase it?In theory this should be relatively simpe though it would require PHP and MySQL skills to achieve.

You would create a new product type which has an extra field for customer restrictions and then, every time that a product list is generated for diaplay, you would filter it to only display products where the field is blank or matches the current customer.

There is however, one wrinkle, namely that you would need the customer to log in much earlier tha is normally necessary if he or she is to see those products. This rather goes against the approach taken by Zen Cart (and most other modern carts) to place as few barriers as possible between a customer's arrival at your site and their buying decision.

Not at this time ...

You can obscure it ... by make a Category then turning that off and adding subcategory where you actually place the product ...

Then manually edit the products_date_added to be older than your New Products setting so it won't show there ...

Then customize All Products so it skips products in the subcategory where you place the custom products ...

Then customize the Previous/Next so it does not show for this subcategory ...

Easy smeazy, eh? :blink:

Thanks Linda. Phew! Um can this become a feature request =). Heh.

I have built customizations like this for sites ... and haven't gotten enough of a true "pattern" for what works for all ...

So ... it's on the list of things to do ... but not in the immediate future ...

Still looking but wondering if anyone has a mod for this yet? (Couldn't find one and now trolling the search results...)

This seams a very common request with no solid way forward that I have found....

My need is that as a screenprinter we have a generic wholesale list of products. (eg any of our customers can buy retail or wholesale)

However we also do custom print jobs for a few customers of their own lines. (Ideally we need these to only be visable/searchable to the customer that "owns" the design)

They like being able to log in and order instaed of having to use manual order forms and fax them etc.

HideCategories in Downloads is made for the purpose of showing certain products to only selected customers.

I am working on such a modification, where I create a new customer in admin, and then create a product, place it in their shopping basket and send them an automated email. This way you can then set the 'order' to something like 'quote only' status, and the customer can then login to their account and proceed to checkout. So far there has only been a minor modification to the 'alt_nav.php' file to show a link to the mod from admin, and some custom database changes.

For anyone to make this work, you would only need to create some attributes and perhaps add some database tables, depending on their needs.

I need some help with this, as I am only a budding programmer with little experience and have run into a snag with zen_href_link (see my post in the forum)

Kind regards,

Goshawk

This is Great!

I to am looking for a way that a customer can click on custom category fill out a attribute and detail text and then add submit via email . I can quote and send them a custom product for add to cart and checkout.

I Look forward to the development.

RJ

rjspomer:

This is Great!

I to am looking for a way that a customer can click on custom category fill out a attribute and detail text and then add submit via email . I can quote and send them a custom product for add to cart and checkout.

I Look forward to the development.

RJ

This mod would work differently, where you as admin create the product according to your customers spec's, but ofcourse you can have them mail the instructions if you like.