VM Shopper Group Login Redirect

Virtuemart is the most powerful and most popular shopping cart for the Joomla CMS. It has an awesome native shopper group capability that can be used to control the display of pricing and other important information in your shop. However, until now, there has been no way to direct shoppers to specific pages when they log in based on their Shopper Group. CorFun's VM Shopper Group Login Redirect closes that gap and now lets store owners direct shoppers of different shopper groups to the best pages for them.

CorFun, Inc. has used Virtuemart extensively to build shopping sites for customers for years. Often shops have multiple shopper classes such as Wholesale, Retail, Paid Member, or just Shopper. As a development team, we often found ourselves wanting to redirect Wholesale shoppers to a list of specials for them, while the regular Shoppers needed a different page. We were able to get around this by using JUGA and JACLPlus to create custom ACL groups and then using our regular login redirect component. However, this was not ideal, because it was too much effort and the Shopper Group was the natural place to control this process. Because we needed a simpler process that works with Virtuemart Shopper Groups directly, this component was created.

• The component installs easily as any other Joomla component.
• Set up is very simple. After accessing the component, you will see as many dropdown boxes as you have Shopper Groups in Virtuemart. The first line is for a default URL for any groups not specified. Select as many different Shopper Groups as you like, and map them to different URLs within your store, or even on different Websites. As shown below:

• Works with any Joomla login module.
• Replacement Virtuemart Login Module is included in the download package for designers who would like to use the VM login system.
• Gets your various shopper groups to the page with the products tailored to their needs!
• Does not depend on Joomla's user groups at all. Works directly with the custom shopper groups in Virtuemart!

Easy, efficient, powerful!

Here are just a few examples of how to use this component in a production Virtuemart store.

Example 1: Your online store has both retail and wholesale shoppers. You have a page of specials for each. When the users log in to check the specials, you need the retail shoppers to go to their page, and the wholesale shoppers to see the page with their specials. VM Shopper Group Login Redirect can make this a reality.

Example 2: Your eCommerce site has both free and paid members. Paid members have their own shopper group in Virtuemart, and get their own specials and their own pricing. Again, VM Shopper Group Login Redirect can handle it by getting paid members to the page for their specials, categories, and pricing.

Example 3: Your eCommerce site has special pages for different client companies and organizations. Employees of one client are all grouped in a single shopper class with company-specific information. After logging in, all employees need to see the same information based on the unique shopper class. Once again, this component comes to the rescue!