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Default LiteCommerce configuration makes the whole online store catalog available to all Internet users. Wholesale Trading module allows the store administrator to define product access restrictions for any product in the store. For each product in the catalog the administrator can specify members of which membership group(s) can see product information and price, and order the product. Follow the instructions below to define product access restrictions:
| • | Choose the 'Products' section from the 'Catalog' menu in the Administrator Zone. |
| • | Find the product and click on its title to enter the 'Product Info' page. |
| • | Click on the 'Product access' tab to switch to the product access settings page. |
Defining product access restrictions
| • | Three sets of permissions are defined here: |
| • | 'The product will be shown to' set contains the list of membership groups, whose members can see this product in the catalog in the Customer zone. |
| • | 'The product price will be shown to' set contains the list of groups, whose members can see the price(s) of this product. |
| • | 'The product will be available for sale to' set contains the list of groups, whose members can buy the product. |
Select membership groups that should be given the corresponding privileges. Use <CTRL>-click to specify more than one group. Choose 'All' to make a certain privilege unrestricted.
| • | Click on the 'Update' button to save restrictions. |
Customers that do not have enough privileges cannot see restricted information or perform restricted actions.
| Note: | If the 'Enable direct addition to the cart for products with disabled catalog visibility' parameter of the Wholesale Trading module is set to 'Yes' (a check mark is placed in the corresponding field in the module's settings page), products which are not visible through the catalog can still be purchased by direct placement of a product to the cart. To arrange this, the store administrator must e-mail to a customer the HTML code of a link or button provided in the 'HTML links' tab of the 'Product Info' page. To place a product to the cart, the customer must access the URL supplied by the store administrator. |
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