{"id":2766,"date":"2016-02-19T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T22:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2016-02-19T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T22:30:47","slug":"restricting-product-visibility-to-members-or-wholesale-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/2016\/02\/19\/restricting-product-visibility-to-members-or-wholesale-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Restricting product visibility to members or wholesale customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/vip-customer-560x420.png\" alt=\"vip-customer\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/>New feature&#8230; and free for every store!<\/p>\n<p>So your business has been growing and you want to expand into the wholesale area or maybe you&#8217;re creating customised products for specific groups of customers. How on earth do you deal with that in your Spiffy Store?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve found that a lot of small businesses are running into that exact problem, so we decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>The concept is pretty simple. When you enable customer accounts for your store, you can add &#8216;tags&#8217; to all of your customer accounts to help you group and categorise them. For example, maybe some of your customers have a VIP status, so you could add a &#8216;vip&#8217; tag to each of these accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Now suppose you want to offer only these customers a special package deal. You can create this special product exactly like every other product, but then you add the &#8216;vip&#8217; tag to the product in the Customer Visibility section.<\/p>\n<p>Once that&#8217;s done, only customers who are logged in to their accounts and have the &#8216;vip&#8217; tag will be able to see and buy that product. It won&#8217;t be visible to any other customers or guest users. Nor will it be visible to the search engines or product data feeds.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a VIP product, so only VIP customers get to buy it!<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it. Now imagine how you can extend this idea to support lots of different groups of customers and you can see how powerful this feature is.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0this feature to even show up you&#8217;ll need to do the following;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enable <a href=\"\/kb\/Advanced_settings#Advanced_product_options\" target=\"_blank\">Advanced product options<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ensure\u00a0<a href=\"\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/customer-accounts-now-available\/\" target=\"_blank\">Customer Accounts are enabled<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Add <a href=\"\/kb\/Product_Visibility_for_Customers\" target=\"_blank\">some tags to your customers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Go <a href=\"\/kb\/Products\" target=\"_blank\">edit a product!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, remember that this is a free feature and is included on every Spiffy Store plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New feature&#8230; and free for every store! So your business has been growing and you want to expand into the wholesale area or maybe you&#8217;re creating customised products for specific groups of customers. How on earth do you deal with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/2016\/02\/19\/restricting-product-visibility-to-members-or-wholesale-customers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiffy-store-announcements","category-show-all"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgk4DF-IC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}