Customer roles
The customer roles in nopCommerce enable you to form groups of your web store users. You can create various groups such as store admins, shoppers, vendors, and other. You can also grant these groups certain rights such as discounted pricing, and other special statuses (such as tax exemption, free shipping, and more) using the access control list.
To manage customer roles go to Customers → Customer roles. The Customer roles window is displayed, as follows:
Click Add new to add a new customer role. The Add a new customer role window is displayed:
Define the following information:
Name of the customer role.
Tick the Active to make this role active.
Tick the Free shipping checkbox, to enable customers with this role to get free shipping on their orders.
Tick the Tax exempt checkbox, to enable customers with this role to make tax-free purchases.
Tick the Override default tax display type and select from Default tax display type drop-down list one of the tax types:
- Including tax
- Excluding tax
Tick the Enable password lifetime, to force customers to change their passwords after a specified time.
Purchased with product. Click the Choose product button to choose a special product. A customer is added to this customer role once this product is purchased (paid).
Note
In case of refund or order cancellation you must manually remove a customer from this role.
Is system role. This setting shows whether this role is used in the code. It is predefined and cannot be modified.
System name of the customer role.
Click Save.