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Squirrelcart v6.1.0

Restricting Store Access

Overview

This feature can be used to restrict access to your entire store. When enabled, customers must be logged in and a member of a group that you designate to be able to access the store.

When not logged in, they will see your storefront without products, and with a login form:

 

If they login and are not yet approved, they will see this instead:

 

The contact form links will only appear by default if you have our Contact module installed.

Enabling Store Access Restrictions

  1. Open the control panel
  2. Store access is restricted via group membership. You will need to create a group that you will put customers in that will be allowed access to the store. If you do not have a group setup that can be used for this, create a group before continuing. A good name for this group would be Approved.

    If you have the News module installed, you have the ability to create special groups called News Groups. Do not use a news group to restrict access to your store, as your customers will be able to join the group themselves on their account form by opting into the news group.
  3. Open the store settings page
  4. In the Access Restrictions > Store Access Restrictions fieldset, click Restrict Store Access
  5. Select the group you wish to grant store access to using the to group field.
  6. Click Save Changes

 

 

 

 


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