If you deal with
certain types of customers such as retail customers, wholesale
customers, preferred customers, etc. you may find it useful to group
these customers so that you can easily find all similar customers or
apply certain benefits, prices and restrictions to them. The customer group
functionality in Kartris can be accessed by going to 'Customers >
Groups').
One of the
common requirements of an online store is to hide certain categories
and products from all but specific customers. When editing a
category, product or version, you will see a dropdown menu selection
for 'Limit by group'. In this way, you can link a category, product
and/or version to a specific group. In this case, only customers who
are logged in to the front end and are members of the appropriate
group will be able to see these items. Other customers will not see
them, or be able to find them in searches.
Although you can set a % discount at customer level, you may find that this does not give you the direct control
you need. You may want to individually price certain items for a
specific group, so for example it might be $15.00 for retail
customers, or $13.25 for wholesale clients.
Kartris has a
tab under versions labelled 'Customer Group Prices' where you can
override the price of any version for each customer group. Leaving
the price at zero for any group will mean that the item for that
group will be at normal price (and not zero!).
Of course, this functionality can enable you to have customer-specific prices too - you can create a customer group and assign just one customer to it, and then set prices for that group.