Configuration questions for new store

[fiddycent]

Hi. I am new to Ablecommerce. Just looking to answer a few questions quickly. I have searched the forums for these without much luck. Any help, tips, ideas would be most appreciated!

1. I want it so that only registered customers that are logged in can see pricing, quantities, and checkout.
2. All of my customers are on account terms such as Net 30. I send them the invoice after shipping them the product. So I don't need to actually collect credit card payments online.
3. Is it possible to do customer or group specific pricing? For example, my top customers will see $1.00 while my second tier of customers might see $1.20 for the same part.
4. Category Page Layout - I have a subcategory with some parts. When I set my category option to "Category Grid (Deep Item Display) With Add to Basket", it does not show the parts when I select that subcategory. In fact it does not even show the subcategories. When I set it to "Category Details Page", it shows the parts and category listing just fine. I'm not sure what I did wrong.

[mazhar]

1. I want it so that only registered customers that are logged in can see pricing, quantities, and checkout.

The latest version of AbleCommerce Gold which is GoldR6 does have the ability to restrict complete retrail store for authorized users. It also allows to restrict products access for user groups.

2. All of my customers are on account terms such as Net 30. I send them the invoice after shipping them the product. So I don't need to actually collect credit card payments online.

You can create some new payment method in Configure -> Payments -> Payment Methods as Purchase Order, Phone Call or maybe mail payment method and remove all others. This will simply enable a button to complete the order.

3. Is it possible to do customer or group specific pricing? For example, my top customers will see $1.00 while my second tier of customers might see $1.20 for the same part.

Yes. If you open details of any product in admin panel you will Specials tab in there. This tab will let you create pricing rules for that product for different user groups.

4. Category Page Layout - I have a subcategory with some parts. When I set my category option to "Category Grid (Deep Item Display) With Add to Basket", it does not show the parts when I select that subcategory. In fact it does not even show the subcategories. When I set it to "Category Details Page", it shows the parts and category listing just fine. I'm not sure what I did wrong.

For me Category Grid Deep Item Display with Add To Basket is working and listing the items and sub categories. Sub categories appear at top while products in grid. You can try applying the page for all categories by going to Administration > Website > Category Pages section and then using change default option.

[fiddycent]

Thanks. I will try all of these suggestions out.

[kwikstand]

So, in regards to #3 for group specific pricing, this has to be done on a product by product basis? That can be quite time consuming. What about setting up a discount and assign it to a specific group? Will this conflict with other discounts assigned to the same products or categories?

[ForumsAdmin]

Groups can be defined for selected groups. These discounts will apply only on the products which belong to the group(s) that the discount applies to.

[kwikstand]

What I meant was, a "user group". When talking about products, it is called "scope" This is the way it is on the edit discount page. So what I was asking was about setting up a discount for selected products, or "scope" and then assigning that discount to apply to a specific a "Group" of users.

Will this conflict with another discount applied to the same products (scope), but to all groups (users)?

Does one discount have precedence over the other?

[ForumsAdmin]

The more specific discounts take precedence over more genral discounts. For example a discount defined on the product itself will take precedence on the discount defined on its category. A discount defined on the lower level category will take precedence on the discount defined at a higher level.

When multiple discounts are defined at the same level, the discount with higher discounted value takes precedence over the discount with lower value.

Groups have no role to play in the precedence of discounts. Groups are 'qualifiers'. The tell us which products/categories 'qualify' for a discount in question.