Registered customer groups (Business Edition)

Registered customer groups are a special type of member group that is created for the purpose of associating buyer organizations with one or more stores. (Extended Sites, where a single instance of WebSphere Commerce contains multiple stores, are an essential example of the latter scenario.) In particular:

Registered customer groups cannot be created or deleted manually from within the Organization Administration Console. Instead, a registered customer group named RegisteredCustomers is created automatically for each B2B direct store, and any buyer organization that registers through the store is automatically added to this member group. These organizations, however, can be removed from the group through the member group UI. Buyer organizations created outside of the store (that is, from within the Organization Administration Console) can also be added to the RegisteredCustomers group through the member group UI. The organization that owns the store also owns the RegisteredCustomers group.

For example, if store A is created under organization A and buyer organization B1 and buyer organization B2 are registered with store A, then a RegisteredCustomers group will exist in organization A and any Seller Administrator of Organization A can behave as if they have the Seller Administrator role for B1 and B2 as well.

Notes:

  1. Registered customer groups can comprise organizations only.
  2. Registered customer groups can be administered by Site Administrators only.
  3. Access authority to manage buyer organization data is accomplished by means of access control policies that grant Seller Administrator rights within the buyer organization of that store to all Seller Administrators in the store's owning organization. These access control policies are created by default when WebSphere Commerce is installed.

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