I'm setting up a shop to allow rent payments. I would like to be able to restrict access to products using CC Website Access Manager. Can this be done? This would be a great feature for other shops, so that you could have custom prices for every account and keep it stealthy.
Thanks for looking.

Hiya Eric,

If you're talking about access to a specific product alone then that would probably be no... unless (and I could be wrong here) you were to setup the shop and not make any changes at all to the ordering of the products in that category, nothing turned on and off etc for whether it's published or not. Then you "might" be able to get away with it by using the specific URL for that product and setting access rights to it. That would "I believe" be like restricting access to a page for the most part which in the end is what you would be doing.

I am not positive how changing orders, and publishing and unpublishing a product affects the URL which is why I mention it. You could play around to test that theory also as maybe the URL is always the same even if you unpublish and then republish it. Dunno, never ventured to need that info.

If this works (being that I don't know how access around the products might affect other things), then you wouldn't have to setup any certain shops for specific products, you could theoretically set this up for many clients to access different pages for payments etc. Just keep in mind that your users would always need to enter a password to access that page, there is no account based setup, only page/file/directory access itself and therefore no account info or login system is used. If you're clients don't care about that then this "should" theoretically work.

Thanks Jo Ann, Your thinking was right inline with mine. I setup a shop and noticed the ulr for the product page, but haven't checked to see if it changes as of yet. I am setting up my products(rent) so that I have a main category and then a subcategory thats the individual rental units then each subcategory will have the 12 months rent as products. I just started setting it up and am designing my access page for each individual right now for testing. Like Scott says "Can't hurt to try".

Well testing for me shows that restrictions can only be placed at the category level. So I get a login request for every category that I click on. The login works but I can't restrict at the subcategory level. I'm thinking that I'll have to have separate shop for each tenant. That's not a great solution but is possible with the small numbers I'm dealing with. Anybody else have some ideas?

Ok so I'm going to assume you've clicked on your particular subcategory that you wanted to protect and grabbed that exact URL and used that in the WAM program and it won't allow you to do it?

Is there a spot to type custom ULR's? It only logs onto the server allowing me to pick a directory or file to protect. The only file I see is the main category file.
I typed the exact ulr in the search but it didn't show up as one to pick.