A members area

Goal: show a Trade prices page only to cafés and shops that buy from you, and let them sign up on the site.

Who this is for: shop owners and editors. You do not need any technical knowledge.

Time: about 25 minutes.

This is chapter 13 of Build a ceramics shop, step by step.

Before you start

• You did chapters 1 to 8.
• You can see Management → Users and Management → Roles in the menu on the left. If you cannot, ask the person who manages your site.

Words you will see

How it works

1. You make a role, Trade customer.
2. You make the Trade prices page and set its privacy to Members of specific roles → Trade customer.
3. A café owner opens the page. The site asks them to sign in, or to create an account.
4. You check the new account and give it the role. From then on, they see the page.

People who sign up get no access to the admin. A role gives them access to pages only.

Steps

1. Make the role

1. In the menu on the left, open Management → Roles and click + New role.
2. Name: Trade customer.
3. Description: Cafés and shops that buy for resale. Can see the trade prices page. No access to the admin.
4. Leave every permission unticked. Trade customers only read a page; they do not work in the admin.
5. Click Create role at the bottom.

2. Make the Trade prices page

1. In the menu on the left, click Pages. In the row of Home, click ⋮, then + Child page.
2. Find Content page and click Use this type. Title: Trade prices. Click Create & keep editing.
3. Under Body, add a Heading block (Prices for cafés and shops) and a Paragraph block with your terms, for example:

Trade customers pay **30% less** than the prices in the shop.

- Minimum order: **6 pieces** (any mix).
- Tea bowls and cups from **€28**, vases and jars from **€63**.
- Delivery in **2–3 weeks**; we pack for restaurants and shop shelves.

To order, use the form on any product page and write **TRADE** in the message. We send an invoice with the trade price.

4. Set Status to Published and click Save & keep editing.

3. Make the page private

1. In the editor, click the Privacy tab (the lock icon).
2. Who can see this page: choose Members of specific roles.
3. Under Allowed roles, tick Trade customer.
4. Click Save privacy and then Confirm.

A message says Only the chosen roles can see this page now. The lock tag next to Privacy shows the rule.

The pages under it follow. If you later add pages under Trade prices (a price list per product, for example), they are private too.

4. Show your shop's name on the sign-in page

Visitors who open the page are sent to a sign-in page. It shows your site's name:

1. Open Management → Settings (the Settings link under Management).
2. Under Branding, type Site name: Clay & Kiln.
3. Click Save branding. You can also upload your logo here.

5. What a café owner sees

Open the shop in a private browser window (so you are not signed in) and go to /trade-prices. The site asks you to sign in:

A new trade customer clicks Create an account, types their name, email and a password (at least 8 characters), and clicks Create account:

They are signed in at once — but they do not have the Trade customer role yet, so the page is still closed to them.

6. Write a friendly "not yet" page

Without your own page, they see a plain 403 — Access denied message. Tell them what happens next instead:

1. Add another child page of Home (⋮ → + Child page) and choose Error page. Title: Trade customers only. Click Create & keep editing.
2. Status code: choose 403 — Forbidden.
3. Under Body, add a Heading (This page is for trade customers) and a Paragraph, for example: Thank you for signing up! We check new trade accounts by hand, usually within one working day. You get an email when your account is ready.
4. Set Status to Published and save.

Now a signed-in visitor without the role sees your page, in your shop's design:

One page per status code. The oldest published error page for 403 is used for every private page that the visitor may not open. Error pages are left out of menus and the sitemap.

7. Give the café the role

1. Open Management → Users. New members are in the list, with their email and no role.

2. Click Edit next to the café.
3. Under Roles, tick Trade customer. Do not tick Tenant superuser.
4. Click Save.

8. Add the page to the menu

1. Open Navigation → Main menu.
2. On the Pages tab, click the + next to Trade prices.
3. Click Save menu.

Visitors do not see this menu item: a menu leaves out pages the visitor may not open. Trade customers see it.

Check it worked

• In a private window, /trade-prices asks you to sign in, and the menu shows Shop, Tea bowls and Vases only.
• Signed in as a member without the role, you see your Trade customers only page.
• Signed in as the café, you see the prices and the Trade prices menu item:

If something goes wrong

For developers

• Sign-in and sign-up live at /members/login and /members/signup. A private page sends visitors to /members/login?next=<page>, and they come back after signing in. Mount the members' routes as the example shop does in main.rs (member_sso_router).
• Private pages in lists. menu() and auto_menu() leave out pages the visitor may not open, and so does the sitemap. In your own lists of children, filter with | visible (the shop page does: {% set shown = children | visible %}).
• Your own error template. Error pages render with error_page.html. The CMS has a plain built-in one; the example shop adds its own (templates/error_page.html, extending _base.html) so error pages look like the shop. The status is extension.status_code and the body _stream_html['body'].

Next

Work as a team: add a helper, and check each new product before it goes live.