How can I restrict customer accounts to a specific store view?

Question

If a customer registered on a specific storeview, it has to use the account only on that storeview. So I want to turn off the shared customer accounts. If a customer tries to log in with that account on another storeview, there must be an error which says that the account doesn't exist.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You should have each storeview in a separate website. Then:

1.- go to:

System > Configuration

2.- Click on customer configuration left tab, under the customers options group

3.- In the account sharing options area, select Per Website option for the Share Customer Accounts select.

The storeviews that share website will share the accounts. And the storeviews' accounts that are in different websites will not be shared.