Magento 2 Catalog Permissions

Use case 1: Target products for relevant buyers

Business goals:

• Set special visibility for products to increase purchases

Default Magento technical limitations:

• A default Magento store lacks the ability to change items' restrictions for consumers.

Solutions:

• Provide the ability to select which specific customer groups are not allowed to view an item
• Give you the feature to hide irrelevant products.
• For example, if you sell both male and female items, you can restrict them so that only gender-related items are available for viewing.

Use case 2: Apply suitable sales strategies with timers for restriction

Business goals:

• Use product visibility as a strategy to tackle different situations, such as peak seasons, holidays, etc.

Default Magento technical limitations:

• You can't change the restrictions or the period of the restriction rules.

Solutions:

• Let admins set the time in which the restrictions are valid.
• For example, during the peak season and a product category doesn't have enough quantity, you can set advanced permissions so that the category is only visible to customers from within the same country and save shipping efforts

Use case 3: Apply category permissions to specific groups of customers

Business goals:

• Change category visibility for different types of visitors.
• Build up relationships with special customer groups.

Default Magento technical limitations:

• You simply can't give different category permissions to customers.

Solutions:

• Magento 2 Category Permissions enables restrictions so only specific groups can view a category.
• You can divide customers into wholesalers, retailers, or any other segment.
• For example, if you have a category of shoes that is only available to order in large quantities, you can set restrictions so the shoes will only be available for wholesalers on the website.

Use case 4: Restrict access to certain pages and blocks

Business goals:

• Extend the restriction applications to other parts of the website
• Make sure customers only receive suitable content.

Default Magento technical limitations:

• It's impossible to restrict access with the default Magento backend.

Solutions:

• Support admins to set advanced permissions that restrict pages and blocks with specific customer groups.
• For example, you can limit sensitive content such as Return & Refund Policy or Commission Policy so guest visitors won't be able to see it. Only when they sign up, and they start seeing these policies for purchasing

Use case 5: Redirect restricted visitors

Business goals:

• Take restricted visitors to other pages
• Reduce the annoyance of restriction to have a better shopping experience.

Default Magento technical limitations:

• You can't set a certain URL for a group of visitors or customers.

Solutions:

• Magento 2 Category Permissions provides URL Direction so limited visitors will see replaced pages or content.
• For example, if buyers don't have permission to view a product because they haven't reached a tier yet, you can guide them to another product of the same category and notify them about the program.