This Magento extension enables you to hide categories and products from customers depending on their customer group. It is a rewrite of the extension Netzarbeiter_GroupsCatalog for Magento 1.6 and newer.
If you use Magento 1.5 or 1.4 please refer to the older extension which is linked to from this modules page on Magento Connect. Older versions of Magento are no longer supported (the old module might work, though, but I don't test at all).
This rewrite not only cleans up the code base, it also adds several new features and improvements:
- Configurable if you want to hide everything and select products and categories to show or vica versa.
- Use of an index to support of an unlimited number of customer groups (without DB table hacks).
- Faster frontend usage, especially noticeable with large catalogs and complex settings.
- Fully configurable on a store view level.
- Should work with Magento using Oracel and MSSQL as well as MySQL (I can't test this, though).
Please refer to the README.txt of the extension for more information.