Restrict the catalogue for customer groups and guests

by Wolfscastle

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Restrict products, categories, manufacturers and pages for individual customer groups or for guests. Payment and shipping methods too, managed in one central list.

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Compatible with:

6.6.8.0 - 6.7.16.0

Includes:

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Description

Highlights

- Restrict products, categories, manufacturers and pages
- Target by customer group, guest status or rule
- A notice with your own text instead of an error page
- Every restriction in one overview instead of spread across products
- Payment and shipping methods can be restricted as well

Features

- Restrictions below "Settings > Extensions", each with target group, scope and behaviour
- Target: several customer groups, visitors who are not logged in, logged-in customers, rules from the rule builder
- Scope: individual products, categories with or without their subcategories, manufacturers, Shopping Experiences pages, payment and shipping methods
- Restricted products are missing from the category listing, the search, the search suggestions, cross-selling as well as the product sliders and product boxes of the Shopping Experiences
- Restricted categories disappear from the navigation, optionally together with their subcategories

- On direct access either a notice, a notice with a login prompt or the answer 404
- Notice text can be maintained per restriction and per language
- Products of a restricted category can be restricted along with it
- Restricted addresses stay out of sitemap.xml
- The priority decides which restriction applies when several match the same object
- Dedicated permission card in the role management, separated into viewing, editing, creating and deleting
- The customer group becomes part of the page cache, so the restricted and the unrestricted view stay apart
- Manageable through the admin API as well, for example to import from a merchandise management system
- Compatible with Shopware 6.6.8 and higher as well as 6.7, including Elasticsearch and OpenSearch

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About the Extension

Parts of the catalogue for the right customers only

In B2B not every product belongs in every hand: trade-only goods, spare parts that require installation, terms for individual brands. Shopware can hide products per sales channel, but not per customer group. This extension closes that gap, and it does so for the whole catalogue.

You create restrictions. Each one answers three questions: who it applies to, what it covers and what the visitor sees. Everything sits in one overview instead of being spread across hundreds of product masks.

Who the restriction applies to

One or several customer groups
Visitors without a customer account, including the checkout of a guest order
Logged-in customers, regardless of their group
Rules from the rule builder, for example country or cart value

What can be restricted

Individual products
Categories, optionally together with their subcategories and the products in them
Manufacturers, which removes their entire range
Shopping Experiences pages that are called on their own
Payment and shipping methods

What the visitor sees

A restricted product disappears from the category listing, the search, the search suggestions, cross-selling as well as the product sliders and product boxes of the Shopping Experiences in any case, restricted categories additionally from the navigation. A restricted product cannot be put into the cart, and a line that was already in it before the restriction is removed by Shopware with a notice. The checkout replaces a restricted payment or shipping method with an unrestricted one. Anyone who knows the address anyway gets either a notice with your own text, the same notice with a login prompt, or the answer 404. The notice is the default: it tells the customer why the product is not shown instead of leaving them on an error page.

Technical notes

The customer group becomes part of the identifier by which Shopware separates its page cache. Without it a customer would be served the cached page of another group, including the products restricted for them. As long as no restriction is active the cache stays as it was.
Lists are filtered in the database, not in memory. Even with large ranges it stays at one additional join per query. With Elasticsearch or OpenSearch the same filter applies in the search index.
Changes to a restriction take effect immediately, including pages that are already cached.
Restricted addresses can be taken out of sitemap.xml. What counts is the view of a visitor who is not logged in, because the sitemap is generated without a customer.
A restricted page additionally sends noindex and nofollow. The notice text is the same on every restricted address and therefore does not belong in the search index.
A switch per sales channel turns the extension off there completely. The sales channel then behaves as if the extension were not installed.
Access to the restrictions is controlled through a dedicated permission card in the roles, separated into viewing, editing, creating and deleting.
The extension sets no cookies, transmits no data to third parties and leaves the availability rules of payment and shipping methods untouched.
Uninstalling without keeping data removes all of its own tables.

Parts of the catalogue for the right customers only

Who the restriction applies to

One or several customer groups
Visitors without a customer account, including the checkout of a guest order
Logged-in customers, regardless of their group
Rules from the rule builder, for example country or cart value

What can be restricted

Individual products
Categories, optionally together with their subcategories and the products in them
Manufacturers, which removes their entire range
Shopping Experiences pages that are called on their own
Payment and shipping methods

What the visitor sees

Technical notes

The customer group becomes part of the identifier by which Shopware separates its page cache. Without it a customer would be served the cached page of another group, including the products restricted for them. As long as no restriction is active the cache stays as it was.
Lists are filtered in the database, not in memory. Even with large ranges it stays at one additional join per query. With Elasticsearch or OpenSearch the same filter applies in the search index.
Changes to a restriction take effect immediately, including pages that are already cached.
Restricted addresses can be taken out of sitemap.xml. What counts is the view of a visitor who is not logged in, because the sitemap is generated without a customer.
A restricted page additionally sends noindex and nofollow. The notice text is the same on every restricted address and therefore does not belong in the search index.
A switch per sales channel turns the extension off there completely. The sales channel then behaves as if the extension were not installed.
Access to the restrictions is controlled through a dedicated permission card in the roles, separated into viewing, editing, creating and deleting.
The extension sets no cookies, transmits no data to third parties and leaves the availability rules of payment and shipping methods untouched.
Uninstalling without keeping data removes all of its own tables.

Details

Available: English, German
Latest update: 2 November 2026
Publication date: 4 November 2026
Version: 1.0.5
Category: B2B extensions

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About the Extension Partner

Wolfscastle

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Partner Status

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Details

Partner since: 2026
Extensions: 2

Support

Based in: Germany
Speaks: German, English
Response time: Very quickly

Can a customer still see a restricted product if they know the address?

No. It disappears from lists and the search anyway. On direct access the restriction decides whether a notice with your text appears, a notice with a login prompt, or the answer 404.

Can the page cache serve a customer the view of another customer group?

No. The extension adds the customer group to the identifier by which Shopware separates its page cache. As long as no restriction is active the cache stays as it was and the hit rate is unchanged.

What happens to restricted products in search engines?

Restrictions can take the affected addresses out of sitemap.xml. What counts is the view of a visitor who is not logged in, because the sitemap is generated without a customer.

How do several restrictions on the same product interact?

For visibility one matching restriction is enough. Which behaviour applies on direct access is decided by the priority; with equal priority the first one found.

Can the restrictions be filled from another system?

Yes. Restrictions and their assignments are available through the admin API, so the data can be taken over from a merchandise management system.

1.0.5 6.6.8.0 - 6.7.16.0 30 October 2026

Version 1.0.5

Fixed

On Shopware 6.6 visitors only see what applies to them in the product listing, the search and the search suggestions. The cached results are stored separately depending on the applicable restriction.
On Shopware 6.6 no visitor is shown the payment or shipping methods of another visitor any more.
Changes to an existing restriction take effect immediately on Shopware 6.6, also in the listing, the search and category pages. Until now the previous state could appear there until the cache expired.
On activation and after an update the extension brings its data into the Elasticsearch or OpenSearch index by itself. Rebuilding the index by hand is no longer necessary.

1.0.4 6.6.8.0 - 6.7.16.0 27 October 2026

Version 1.0.4

Changed

The target group "Visitors who are not logged in" includes customers of a guest order. Until now a guest order counted as logged in, and a restriction for guests no longer applied in the checkout.

Fixed

Manufacturer and category restrictions work on the product page and in the cart like a direct product restriction. Until now the buy box stayed there and the product could be ordered.
A restricted product can no longer be put into the cart. A line that was already in the cart before the restriction is removed with a notice.
Restricted product pages output neither the price nor product structured data (JSON-LD, Open Graph).
"Include subcategories" restricts subcategories when their address is called and in sitemap.xml as well, not only in the menu.
sitemap.xml leaves out everything the storefront restricts: also products of restricted manufacturers and categories as well as landing pages with a restricted Shopping Experiences page.
A restricted payment or shipping method is no longer used, even when it is the default of the sales channel. The checkout switches to an unrestricted method, and an order with the restricted method is rejected.
With Elasticsearch or OpenSearch the extension hides restricted products and their variants in category and search as well.
Saving a restriction clears the storefront page cache. Until now cached pages kept the old state until they expired.

1.0.2 6.6.8.0 - 6.7.16.0 3 September 2026

Version 1.0.2

Fixed

Roles other than administrator can use the module again. The permission card only carried the privileges for products and categories while list and detail mask load every scope, so opening a restriction ended with an error message. Manufacturers, Shopping Experiences pages, payment and shipping methods are now covered in full.
Restricting a manufacturer, a Shopping Experiences page, a payment or a shipping method takes effect immediately. Until now it only applied after the next cache clear.
The sales channel switch "Extension enabled" is evaluated. Turning the extension off for a sales channel previously changed nothing.

Added

Restricted pages send the instruction "noindex, nofollow" to search engines. The notice text is the same on every restricted address and therefore does not belong in the index.
Exceeding the limit of 500 active restrictions is now reported in the extension's own log.

Changed

The search bar and the entity list show "Restrictions" instead of the technical name.
The subtitle of the "What is restricted" card names all six scopes.