Custom Redirect based on Customer Group

Question

I have installed an extension that allows me to prevent certain customer groups from accessing certain products/categories.

E.x. Only my retailer customers have access to product displays etc.

When a retail user logs in and clicks the category link for those products, they are sent to that page. Any customer not logged in or not belonging to that group is redirected to the "404 Page Not Found" page.

My question is where can I change this action to redirect to a page of my choosing?

Currently on version 1.7

Answer 1

By default Magento allows for either redirect to customer account dashboard or the last page the user visited.

You can either choose to write your own extension or use a free extension from MagePsycho. I've used the extension once a while back, from what I can remember it worked pretty well.

If you rather write your own extension observer the customer_login event which is called just after the active (logged in) customer is set. The event data contains the customer object from which you can obtain it's customer group which you can then use to redirect on.