Assign a custom Skin (HTML Template) to a customer's shopping session

[Rutabaga]

As of Modular Merchant version 2.013, stores may have more than one Skin. (A Skin is a package of HTML templates, used to customize the design of your store web pages. More information on Skins is available in the MM Administrator Guide, starting on page 41.)

Now that a store may have more than one Skin package, you may want to display certain Skins to certain customers. For example, you could set up two different Skin packages in your store. One, titled "wholesale", could be designed to include wholesaler information, links to distributors, etc. A second Skin, titled "retail", could be designed to show only information and links that you would like displayed to retail customers.

When constructing links to your online store, a variable titled "skin" may be included in the link. If present, the Skin package with that name will be displayed throughout the customer's shopping session.
For example:
1. www.mystore.com/?skin=wholesale (Displays "wholesale" Skin.)
2. www.mystore.com/?skin=retail (Displays "retail" Skin.)

I could then give link # 1 to my wholesale customers and link # 2 to my retail customers. This would allow both groups of customers to browse and purchase the same products, but a different Skin package (set of HTML templates) would be displayed to each group while they shopped. The end result is similar to having a different store for each group of customers, without needing to create and manage two separate catalogs of products.

If no "skin" variable is included in the link, then the system will display the default Skin assigned to the pages of your store.

Note:
For maximum compatibility, format the "skin" variable in your link as all lower case letters, replacing spaces with underscores.
For example:
Skin Name = mystore.com/?skin=skin_name
SKIN NAME = mystore.com/?skin=skin_name
skin name = mystore.com/?skin=skin_name

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If you have any questions or comments about Skins, feel free to add them to this post. Thank you!

[CMarier]

This topic is being locked because it's about a feature specific to Modular Merchant version 2. Modular Merchant version 3 improves on this feature, making this forum article obsolete.