AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Is there any way to change the default group for new customers to be put into? Currently, when a new customer signs up, they are put into a 'non-group'. We would like to have them placed into a group that we can set up, so that we can better control discounts by disallowing codes and volume discounts to certain groups who already received discounted pricing.

We don't have this built in, but it shouldn't be very hard to accomplish. There are a couple of ways it could be done - the quick and dirty (but perhaps most reliable) would be to hook up code that runs with every request and checks the current user's group memberships. If none are found, add them to your default group.

I may be able to figure that out with some help. I guess the big question is would this take place in advance of a customer passing the point where discounts are taken off. In other words, if a new customer signs up, and we have a discount offered across the default group, would they receive the discount on a new registration, or would it be too far into the process by the time they registered?