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Superal
VP-CART Expert
Canada
542 Posts |
 Posted - March 05 2003 : 10:57:36
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The xproductmatchcustomer function is practically useless as it stands because you have to either force a login to shop or show everything anyway. What a turnoff to new customers and existing customers.
My suggestion is to set the CustomerProductGroup session variable to some default. Then the anonymous shopper will only be able to view categories and/or products that match that default. This also addresses the administration problem of all the products. Why are you forced into tagging ALL products. If the customermatch field is empty, it should be considered as having some default value. Again a huge admin time saver. Only having to tag part of the 40,000 products!
What this comes down to is customer convienience and admin time saving.
Your thoughts, requirements for your shop and ideas are all welcome, please feel free to add any well thought out points.
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lcaseydc
VP-CART New User
USA
90 Posts |
Posted - March 19 2003 : 00:31:30
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I agree....
This is needed
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couchboy
Starting Member
4 Posts |
Posted - January 16 2005 : 19:29:23
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Was there ever a response to this?
Is there a way to set the CustomerProductGroup session to a default value?
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Cam
VP-CART Super User
Australia
361 Posts |
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jstablein
Starting Member
6 Posts |
Posted - February 11 2005 : 13:46:17
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----------Support excerpt---------------
If a customer logs in and has something in the productgroup, that is all they will see. If they do not login they see all categories.
-----------End Support excerpt----------
Thus in 5.5, products disappear from visitors who login and are not on the matching product list. And for those who match, nothing changes when they login. Seems backwards to me.
I think it would be an improvement if the products showed up ONLY for matching customers. If I have a product for VIP shoppers, I don't want every anonymous visitor to see it.
I should be able to do it like this--
Customers record 1: productgroup=VIP
Customers record 2: productgroup=Bartenders
Product 1 record:
Product 2 record: customermatch=VIP,Bartenders
Product 3 record: customermatch=VIP
Categories record: customermatch=VIP,Bartenders
Shop Configuration: xproductmatchcustomer - Yes
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Then my VIP customers would see Product 1, 2 and 3. Bartenders would see Product 1 and 2. Anonymous visitors would see only Product 1.
When I purchased VPASP 5.5, I thought it would work like this and I think this functionality would make the program exceptional.
Comments?
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Edited by - jstablein on April 04 2006 15:43:13 |
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