Password Protect certain items

[k_lee]

I apologize if this is a question that's answered somewhere in the documentation. I have been looking through it, but I haven't found the answer yet.

 

Here's my problem. We're looking to set up an ecommerce site (obviously) that will sell to the general public. However, we have certain products that we're contractually prohibited from selling to anyone but certain customers who meet criteria set out in the contract. We would like to be able to create a system whereby anyone can come and buy on our site, but some products will be password protected. The average person should be able to see that we have these items for sale (so that they can contact us so we can see if we're allowed to sell to them), but should not be able to see the price or put those items in their shopping cart.

 

Our current site, a turnkey site we have set up through another company, doesn't offer us this flexibility forcing us to leave these items off of our site altogether. (The people who hold contract on these items are hard nosed about the whole thing. Unfortunately they also have a very popular product. I don't get any of it, I'm just the guy responsible for the website.) Which is why we're looking for another solution.

 

So my question is, does oscommerce have this capability? I've got some knowledge of PHP programming, but obviously not enough to engineer a large project from scratch. I'm interested in using this system, but I don't want to spend a lot of time looking into it if it can't do the one thing I need it to do.

 

Thanks.

[nev25]

I apologize if this is a question that's answered somewhere in the documentation. I have been looking through it, but I haven't found the answer yet.

 

Here's my problem. We're looking to set up an ecommerce site (obviously) that will sell to the general public. However, we have certain products that we're contractually prohibited from selling to anyone but certain customers who meet criteria set out in the contract. We would like to be able to create a system whereby anyone can come and buy on our site, but some products will be password protected. The average person should be able to see that we have these items for sale (so that they can contact us so we can see if we're allowed to sell to them), but should not be able to see the price or put those items in their shopping cart.

 

Our current site, a turnkey site we have set up through another company, doesn't offer us this flexibility forcing us to leave these items off of our site altogether. (The people who hold contract on these items are hard nosed about the whole thing. Unfortunately they also have a very popular product. I don't get any of it, I'm just the guy responsible for the website.) Which is why we're looking for another solution.

 

So my question is, does oscommerce have this capability? I've got some knowledge of PHP programming, but obviously not enough to engineer a large project from scratch. I'm interested in using this system, but I don't want to spend a lot of time looking into it if it can't do the one thing I need it to do.

 

Thanks.

 

Sorry to steal the thread but my question is on a simular line

I want to have a page to sell item of an adult nature and want to be able to restrict visitors over a centain age

Can anyone see how this can be done??

[NodsDorf]

There is a Hidden Products Mod

and a Restricted Website mod

 

Never used either so not sure how well they work.

 

To answer the main question can it be done, yes I don't see why not.

[satish]

osCommerce does not have this facility by default.

You need to apply a code in price formatter that should not return a value if not logged in.

 

Satish