The standard, open-source Magento system cannot show or hide products, based upon the customer type. This can be accomplished with an add-on. However, we will accomplish building a wholesale store with the standard Magento installation.
If you use the same storefront for both wholesale and retail customers, you will be forced to show them the same products. However, you do not need to show them the same prices. That is because Magento can change the prices in your catalog based upon the type of customer that is logged in.
In theMagento Beginner's Guide, we showed you how to create customer groups, and how to assign a customer to a customer group. In this chapter, we will combine those techniques to create wholesale customers.
Wholesale customers usually don't pay sales tax. Sales tax can be removed using a shopping cart price rule. We showed you how to create this inChapter 6. In this chapter, we will show you how to create a shopping...