Adding products that are only visible to 'club' members?

I run a site where I sell handmade one of a kind products that once they are sold out, are gone. The current 'trend' in this market is to so a monthly 'club' - where my customers will pay in advance for a 3 month membership and get a shipment each month.

I would like to do mine slightly differently - and give my club members a preview of the items I have and let them choose which ONE they would like to claim as theirs. This means that the items need to be on the site for them to look at, but not visible to any other customer that happens on the site.

Once the club member preview/preorder period has ended, any remaining items will be released to the site along with my regular repeatable products for sale to all my customers.

In theory, this seems simple enough. I've run the idea by a number of my customers and they're lining up to join the club. All that is left is a way for me to actually implement it. And I have no idea how. Anyone have any clues?

Thanks
Jas

http://shop.artsygal.net - Handpainted Luxury Yarns

Ditto, I need the same solution, basically i need to hide catagories until a user logs in. Is this possible?

How have you marked your customers as club members?

You could add a flag to the customers table and if not logged in with that flag when these products go to draw/display you can customize the code to mask those products ...

Depending on how much you need to mask this could be quite a task ...

Does the product need to:
absolutely disappear
or, does the product need to not be allowed to be purchased
or, it can be seen on sideboxes and listings but not on the product _info page

I have a major client that would like to have a catagory of products show up only when his shop owners log in, but it should be restricted to be visible only to his shop owners. All products will be specific to this catagory.
Example: Catagory is "Pre-approved items", when a designated shop owner logs into our site, I would like this catagory to appear. otherwise have it hidden.
https://www.mysalon.biz if you would like to see the site.

Ajeh:

How have you marked your customers as club members?

You could add a flag to the customers table and if not logged in with that flag when these products go to draw/display you can customize the code to mask those products ...

Depending on how much you need to mask this could be quite a task ...

Does the product need to:
absolutely disappear
or, does the product need to not be allowed to be purchased
or, it can be seen on sideboxes and listings but not on the product _info page
If I wanted a catagorie to appear only upon successful login, or even more specific upon specific user login is more accurate. This could be used for group members or club members to get additional catagories showing up exclusive only to them. I haven't done a lot with sideboxes but if a link to a private page with products can appear when users login, this will work. How would I do this? Is there a contribution that may enable either option in ZenCart that can be modified for this?

yeah i'm curious about this also

Easiest way is to add Membership mod from
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=492

Ajeh:

How have you marked your customers as club members?

You could add a flag to the customers table and if not logged in with that flag when these products go to draw/display you can customize the code to mask those products ...

Depending on how much you need to mask this could be quite a task ...

Does the product need to:
absolutely disappear
or, does the product need to not be allowed to be purchased
or, it can be seen on sideboxes and listings but not on the product _info page

Hi Ajeh

"Does the product need to:
absolutely disappear",
yes, untill logged on.
is there a way?
Thank you

You would need to do some custom code for this ...

Or, you might look at that add-on that misty suggested, as I think there is something to manage this or something that could be adapted further as needed ...