One or Two Instances of OSCommerce needed?

[Brian Hardin]

I've looked all around the forums here for a solution to this one, I can't seem to find it.

 

Is there a way to set up OSCommerce so that only certain clients can see certain categories/items in it?

 

In other words, if we have PizzaDudeCompany and BikerChickCompany and we don't want BikerChickCompany to see the items we sell to PizzaDudeCompany, can we still have them log into the same instance of OSCommerce, but not see each other's products?

 

Or would we need to install a second instance of OSCommerce?

[davidinottawa]

I've looked all around the forums here for a solution to this one, I can't seem to find it.

 

Is there a way to set up OSCommerce so that only certain clients can see certain categories/items in it?

 

In other words, if we have PizzaDudeCompany and BikerChickCompany and we don't want BikerChickCompany to see the items we sell to PizzaDudeCompany, can we still have them log into the same instance of OSCommerce, but not see each other's products?

 

Or would we need to install a second instance of OSCommerce?

 

Hey Brian -

 

So - if I come to your site, and register my name, email, etc, etc through OSCommerce registration page - *how* are you going to know if I am Pizza or Biker ?

 

Are you saying - You want to sell compleltey different products, to 2 distinct types of clients - but you want the product input and administration aspect to be shared by one database ?

[Brian Hardin]

Hey Brian -

 

So - if I come to your site, and register my name, email, etc, etc through OSCommerce registration page - *how* are you going to know if I am Pizza or Biker ?

 

Are you saying - You want to sell compleltey different products, to 2 distinct types of clients - but you want the product input and administration aspect to be shared by one database ?

 

 

Well, it's like this:

 

We sell promotional items, each one is customized with someone's logo. Let's say I have a client called PizzaDude, and a client called PizzaChick, they are competitors, but both use me as a supplier for their promotional items.

 

I don't want PizzaDude to see PizzaChick's items , or vice versa, as I don't want there to be a percieved "conflict of interest", nor do I want them to see what I am charging the other person (one might order 500 pens where the other might want to order 50,000 pens - i'm going to give a discount to the 50,000 pens and possibly a discount on a future order as well).

As for the login, there is usually one person that will be viewing the cart on the corporate end, so we will manually create a login for that client to use.

 

So in short, yes, completely different products, to distinctly different clients, but i do want the input and admin aspect to be shared by one database.