Category Restriction based on Customer Group is a Magento 2 extension developed by PIT Solutions which helps admin users to restrict categories for certain customer groups in frontend.

It allows admin user to assign permission to categories for each customer group. By setting category permission for customer groups, store owners can hide the categories they do not want to share with specific customer groups.

The extension has “Use Parent Category” option, and by configuring this we can easily restrict the child category.

The extension offers different behaviour options when a customer from a restricted group tries to access a restricted category. Admin users can configure the restriction behaviour to redirect the customer to a specific page or URL, such as Login page, or 404 (Page not Found) based on the restriction behaviour. 

Navigate to Admin -> Stores -> Configuration -> Pits Configuration -> Category Restriction by Customer Group

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To restrict the category for a specific customer group,

• Go to Catalog -> Categories -> Select a necessary category -> Select the section “Customer Group Restrictions”.
• Restriction Groups: Select the Customer groups for which the categories need to be restricted.
• Restriction Group Behaviour: 

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This sets how the restriction should behave when a customer tries to access the category. If the behaviour is set as Deny, then the customers with selected customer group will not have access to the category, and if the behaviour is set as Allow then only the customers with the selected customer group will have access to the category. 

In frontend, the categories are displayed based on the customer group restriction. If Hide Restricted Categories configuration is set as YES, then the categories will not display in the frontend for the particular customer group.

Configure the general settings as Figure 2 and change the category restriction configuration as required. 

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In Admin Panel -> Catalog -> Category, Customer Group Restriction: Set Restriction Groups as NOT LOGGED IN and Restriction Group Behaviour as “Allow”.

In this scenario, the category will be allowed only when the customer is not logged in and for all customers with other groups it will be redirected to login page or 404 (Page not Found) as configured in admin configuration (Restriction Behaviour in Figure 3). 

As an example, we have configured restriction on the category Women in the image. The access is enabled only for the not logged in customers or the customers with customer group Not Logged In

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As mentioned above category Women is restricted for all other customer groups except Not Logged In and for that customer group the restriction behaviour is configured as Not found page. So, when a customer with any other customer group tries to access the category it will redirect to 404 (Page not Found) based on the configured restriction behaviour.

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As an example, if we set Use Parent Category Settings as No and Hide Restricted Categories as YES, then the restriction category will be hidden and its child categories will come under the parent category. 

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f the Tops category is restricted and its child categories are not restricted, then Tops will be hidden and all its child categories will come under the parent category. 

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