Question

I need to somehow setup a Magento store to disable purchasing of a few products, and instead show a message that they can only be bought in the physical store. The twist is that the store owner/administrator has to be able to “buy” these products on the frontend on behalf of the customer — all payment options are not available in the backend.

So, is there a way to only allow certain customers/users to purchase certain products, and show all other customers and anonymous visitors a “not for sale” notice? (Not “out of stock”.)

I have thought of creating a special store view or custom design, or even using some Javascript trickery to prevent unauthorized visitors to purchase these products. Any clever ideas?

Answer 1

1 – Creating a custom product attribute that identify these products

2 – Put owner/administrator in a special customer group

3 – Anywhere you have a ‘add to cart’ button, you check the above logic and only should ‘add to cart’ for those product if customer is in that owner/administrator customer group