Maury Markowitz Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 We do both B2C and B2B sales. The B2B customers get special discounted pricing. In our existing system these discounts are associated with the *company*, which may have multiple users. I'd like to retain this basic workflow in our new Presta shop. That is, I would like Bob Smith and John Smith of Smith Electric to both have separate logins, but both of those logins to receive the same discounts. That makes it easy to add or remove users on an account basis. Additionally, any user in the account should be able to see all of the orders for that account, even if entered by another user. This would be an *option*. Is this something that can be done in PS? The guys on the phone suggested I ask here, as there might be a module for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papagino Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Hi Maury, you probably got your answer already but anyway, this can be done by creating Groups in your Prestashop under Customers/Groups. You then associate your B2B customers into that Group (ex: Retailers) and then you can setup a group to have a discount in %. You can also go in your Catalog/Products and for each product you have a feature called "Specific prices" where you can specify different prices for different customers or Groups. You can even set it up for quantity discount... Hope this help.. Cheers Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maury Markowitz Posted March 6, 2013 Author Share Posted March 6, 2013 Yeah Dan, thanks, much of this I did pick up by osmosis. One thing though - I added the new group but no products appear in that group. If you go to the product pages, that group is not selected to be able to see it. Is there an easy way to add this? Going to all 400 products would take a while… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papagino Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Hello again Maury, If you created a new group for your B2B customers, make sure that you tick the boxes Visitor, Guest & Customer as below in Customers > Customers > Edit in PrestaShop Backoffice. Otherwise, they won't see much on your webpages once they are logged in. You have also control over Module restrictions under Customers > Customers > Groups > Edit. This is useful when you want to limit the access to certain modules to only customers who belongs to a certain group. Hope you understand... This is in PrestaShop 1.5.3.1 by the way... Cheers Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilsown Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Prestashop handles B2B customers very poorly. If you have a company say acme bricks and you have the customers name "owner" as john smith. Now if Jason in accounting calles in and wants to order over the phone. then you have to figure out that the person name the account is under is john smith. This gets hard on huge companys where people don't know eveone in the company. I sell to companys that could have any number of employees and they don't always know each other. Finding the account to put it under can be a pita. If you could search by company name than you would be gold So just be careful how you setup all these account. Do you really want to setup account for every person that orders from companys or you want 1 account for each company? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maury Markowitz Posted March 8, 2013 Author Share Posted March 8, 2013 On 3/6/2013 at 10:19 PM, papagino said: If you created a new group for your B2B customers, make sure that you tick the boxes Visitor, Guest & Customer as below So are you saying I leave the visibility on the products alone, and instead grant visibility by ensuring that the products are visible in the other groups? This seems like a lot of work! It would seem Presta would be greatly improved if they had an area on the Group page that showed all the products visible in the group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maury Markowitz Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 On 3/6/2013 at 10:19 PM, papagino said: If you created a new group for your B2B customers, make sure that you tick the boxes Visitor, Guest & Customer as below in Customers > Customers > Edit in PrestaShop Backoffice. Otherwise, they won't see much on your webpages once they are logged in. Ok so maybe I don't understand those boxes very well. I see a similar set of boxes in each Product. And my new Groups are not turned on in those pages. So I was going through the products turning them on (ugh!) But it seems you're saying I don't have to do this. Instead, I simply turn on the OTHER groups in the Group page instead. So if my customer is in Guest and Visitor, he'll see the Product because that Product has Visitor turned on. Is that it? If so, that just saved me a LOT of work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maury Markowitz Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 On 3/6/2013 at 11:53 PM, devilsown said: Prestashop handles B2B customers very poorly. [snip] If you could search by company name than you would be gold Exactly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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