We come across a requirement to restrict specific products (not complete catalogue) to sale in specific countries (different products per country). On a website with multi-currency per country and worldwide delivery of products its not a straight forward task. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If we want to restrict product for sale in a specific country then potential customers (including anonymous customers) should not able to add to basket and not able to search these products to avoid disappointment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Markets<\/span>: If we create different markets for each country, We can only add a “Valid” price for a country where a specific product can be sold. This approach seems fine and it works with Episerver find as well but it is very hard to maintain. We probably need to create 100s of markets as one per country. We also have to add and maintain prices of these markets and if the catalogue has products in 1000s then it will be very hard to manage. A potential customer will still be able to buy (if they manually change cookie value )<\/p>\n\n\n\n Restrict countries in payment provider (Allowed \/ Disallowed countries)<\/span>. So for example, if the UK is a restricted country in payment provider then customers from the UK would not able to buy any product. The problem with this approach is; payment provider restricts all products from a specific country. We want to restrict specific products per country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Customer Groups:<\/span> Product price can be restricted per customer group but it will be very hard to workout Customer groups if the customer is not logged-in and this approach has similar issues like Markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are different moving parts of this solution<\/p>\n\n\n\n All Episerver DXP environments use Cloudflare CDN and it provides a request header (“CF-IPCountry”) that tell us visitor location. So we can create a helper method to get a visitor’s location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Create a property of variant that takes a list of all restricted countries. I have created string type property that uses a custom selection factory “CountriesSelectionFactory” and uses SlectMany property decoration to take more than one country ISO name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Countries Selection Factory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Property<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n We have created property in the variant so it will be available in Epi Find. We can create a filter while getting search results from Episerver find. <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/world.episerver.com\/documentation\/developer-guides\/commerce\/search\/Configuring-facets-and-filters\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are two places you can restrict a variant to add to basket<\/p>\n\n\n\n We come across a requirement to restrict specific products (not complete catalogue) to sale in specific countries (different products per country). On a website with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,9,32,23,13,22],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episerver","tag-cms","tag-commerce","tag-developer","tag-development","tag-episerver","tag-episerver-commerce"],"yoast_head":"\nSolution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Get an accurate visitor location<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
using System.Web;\n\nnamespace Foundation.Helpers\n{\n public static class CustomerHelpers\n {\n public static string GetVisitorLocation(HttpRequestBase httpRequest)\n {\n \n var countryIso = httpRequest.Headers[\"CF-IPCountry\"];\n return countryIso;\n }\n }\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nAdd variant Property for restricted countries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
using EPiServer.Shell.ObjectEditing;\nusing System.Collections.Generic;\n\nnamespace Foundation.Features.Blocks.ElevatedRoleBlock\n{\n public class CountriesSelectionFactory : ISelectionFactory\n {\n public virtual IEnumerable<ISelectItem> GetSelections(ExtendedMetadata metadata)\n {\n return new ISelectItem[]\n {\n new SelectItem { Text = \"United Kingdom\", Value = \"GB\"},\n new SelectItem { Text = \"United states\", Value = \"US\"},\n new SelectItem { Text = \"Canada\", Value = \"CA\"}\n \/\/ Other countries\n };\n }\n }\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n[Display(Name = \"Restricted Countries\", Order = 40)]\n [SelectMany(SelectionFactoryType = typeof(CountriesSelectionFactory))]\n [BackingType(typeof(PropertyString))]\n public virtual string RestrictedCountries { get; set; }<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nRestricting products or variants in search based on their restrictions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Restricting variant to Add to basket<\/h2>\n\n\n\n