Prestashop Module Customer Group Retrospect

Retrospect configures customers' default groups to predefined groups during account creation according to the rules specified in advance so the settings apply to the customer from registration.

Customer Group Retrospect Main Features

Feature :

• Automatically add customers to specific groups
• Use specific rules to add customers to groups at registration

Retrospect prospectively configures customers' default groups to predefined groups during account creation according to the rules specified in advance, so the settings that apply to a group (e.g. discounts, or carrier) apply to the customer from the point of registration, and eliminate the need to change customers' default group manually.

In effect Restrospect enables you to implement very sophisticated concepts that are otherwise impossible:

• — Allow carrier X to be used only by customers with postcode Y.
• — Give all customers residing in region Z 5% discount.
• — Show category W to only customers from country Q.
• — If customer is a student give free shipping.
• — Accept Bank wire only from customers residing in state P.
• — Give students residing in country M for the items in category N $10 discount and enable carrier P for those orders.
• — ...

It is possible to base rules on the customer's email address, zones, countries and postcode/zip.

On a default installation of PrestaShop, if you want your customers' default group to be any group other than the default group, you must change each customer's group retrospectively. So, say for example, if you have a group Academia with a special discount, and you want the default group of customers whose email addresses end in .edu to be the group Academia. Then, after the account creation you must manually change the customer's default group.

This has two disadvantages: it is not scalable; if you have a busy shop you will be spending a lot of time changing new customers' groups. The second disadvantage is that the rules that govern the group are not applied during the initial purchase which is likely to have led to the account creation.

Retrospect attempts to overcome these issues by allowing you to create group rules that will be applied during the account creation to assign the customers' default group according to those rules. In addition, Retrospect can apply a rule to the existing customers retrospectively and can be set to watch for changes made to customer details after the registration.