3 Replies Latest reply: Aug 12, 2014 8:18 PM by Liam Dilley

plugin to filter customers by location

mcwho3 Aug 12, 2014 1:52 PM

Hello BC users,

I am wondering if there is a way to only allow customers within a certain geographic location (a few states within the US) to purchase from a BC website. I was pointed in the direction of a JS plugin, but was wondering if there was an easier more customer friendly way around the problem. I am rather new to programming and the whole process of web-site creation so i would appreciate as simple an answer as possible.

The reason we would want to do this is because of manufacturer's contracts that limit our territory. We have the options to allow people known to only do business within our area access to the storefront and to have login information created in the back office by admin, but again not very customer friendly.

Thanks for the assistance.

1. Re: plugin to filter customers by location

Liam Dilley Aug 12, 2014 3:22 PM (in response to mcwho3)

Hi there,
Sorry, no. You will need to use coding to detect their location in terms of states in one country, and then showing and hiding or giving access to content for those regions.
There is no easy way/point and click solution to that.
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2. Re: plugin to filter customers by location

TheBCMan Aug 12, 2014 5:33 PM (in response to mcwho3)

JS only at this point as Liam points out, if you want something easy but not so automatically you could just ask the question "what state are you from" with a drop down and only allow people to continue if they select that state. Not fool proof but might be simple enough to work.
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3. Re: plugin to filter customers by location

Liam Dilley Aug 12, 2014 8:18 PM (in response to TheBCMan)

True but you would still need to code some javascript to do what ever based on that like dropping a cookie or setting a class for styles.
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