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Extended registration and custom fields

What features does B2BKing introduce for registration?

B2BKing introduces

  • Registration roles, meaning that the user can select a role at registration and the user will see different fields depending on the chosen role.
Registration roles dropdown. Selecting a role enables custom fields like "Company Name"

Enabling and Disabling the Dropdown

The dropdown can be enabled or disabled in the Settings panel of B2BKing, as visible in the next image.

Enabling and disabling the registration roles dropdown
Registration roles in the admin backend
  • Registration fields. B2BKing comes with 11 default fields, including "Company name", "Company address" and "VAT" which has an integrated VAT VIES validation feature.

Completely separate B2B and B2C registration

If rather than use a dropdown, you would prefer to completely separate the two types of registration, read the following article: Completely Separate B2B and B2C registration

About registration roles

You can create multiple roles such as "Customer" and "B2B (requires approval)". This is very useful for example if you are running a hybrid B2B/B2C store. Each registration role has its own attached fields that are visible when selecting it

About registration fields

Registration fields in the admin backend
Individual registration field

When creating an individual registration field you can select:

  • Whether the field is required
  • Sort order (order in which the fields appear)
  • Registration role (for which the field is visible)
  • Whether the field is editable after registration
  • Field Type (Text, Textarea, Number, Telephone, Select, Email, File Upload, Date)
  • Field Label
  • Placeholder

You can also select how these fields are connected to billing through Billing Options

Billing options for the VAT Field.

In billing options you can select whether a field is also available in billing at checkout. Some fields are special such as the VAT field. For the VAT field you can choose which countries can see the field and enable or disable automatic VAT VIES validation.

Through billing options you can also create custom fields and have these fields appear in checkout and in the user's my account.

You can also choose a connection to a field like "Town" and then what the user inputs in the "Town" field will directly appear in the user's "Town/County" section in billing options

Example: creating a "Parent Company Name" field in registration and making it required. This field is available to "All Registration Roles".

Custom "Parent Company Name" registration field
You can choose to make the field available and required in checkout/billing as well

Automatic approval and Manual approval

You can choose automatic approval for a registration role to a specific customer groups. For example you can choose that a registration role like "WalMart Employees" is automatically approved and assigned to the "WalMart" group.

Automatic approval to customer group

Alternatively, you can choose manual approval for a registration role. In that case you will be able to review the user registration details and approve or reject the user.

Manually approving or rejecting the user

The registration details provided can be complex and include elements such as "Company License" or "Date of incorporation" as seen in the next image

Complex data including Company License in the registration (based on custom registration fields)

Account requires approval messages

If an account requires approval, the user will not be able to login until approved:

Thank you for registering. Your account requires approval. Please wait
Your account is still waiting for approval. Until approved, you cannot login.

Email notifications

B2BKing also introduces 3 types of email notifications that you can enable or disable in the NeroCommerce Email Settings panel:

  • New customer
  • New customer requires approval
  • Your account has been approved
Email notifications

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