Customers

Overview

We use Customers in Lunar to store the customer details, rather than Users. We do this for a few reasons. One, so that we leave your User models well alone and two, because it provides flexibility.

Customers

Lunar\Models\Customer

Field	Description
id
title	Mr, Mrs, Miss, etc
first_name
last_name
company_name	nullable
vat_no	nullable
account_ref	nullable
attribute_data	JSON
meta	JSON
created_at
updated_at

Creating a customer

Lunar\Models\Customer::create([
    'title' => 'Mr.',
    'first_name' => 'Tony',
    'last_name' => 'Stark',
    'company_name' => 'Stark Enterprises',
    'vat_no' => null,
    'meta' => [
        'account_no' => 'TNYSTRK1234'
    ],
])

Relationships

• Customer Groups customer_customer_group
• Users - customer_user

Users

Customers will typically be associated with a user, so they can place orders. But it is also possible to have multiple users associated with a customer. This can be useful on B2B e-commerce where a customer may have multiple buyers.

Attaching users to a customer

$customer = \Lunar\Models\Customer::create([/* ... */]);

$customer->users()->attach($user);

$customer->users()->sync([1,2,3]);

Attaching a customer to a customer group

$customer = \Lunar\Models\Customer::create([/* ... */]);

$customer->customerGroups()->attach($customerGroup);

$customer->customerGroups()->sync([4,5,6]);

Impersonating users

When a customer needs help with their account, it's useful to be able to log in as that user so you can help diagnose the issue they're having. Lunar allows you to specify your own method of how you want to impersonate users, usually this is in the form of a signed URL an admin can go to in order to log in as the user.

Creating the impersonate class

<?php

namespace App\Auth;

use Lunar\Hub\Auth\Impersonate as LunarImpersonate;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL;

class Impersonate extends LunarImpersonate
{
    /**
     * Return the URL for impersonation.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getUrl(Authenticatable $authenticatable): string
    {
        return URL::temporarySignedRoute('impersonate.link', now()->addMinutes(5), [
            'user' => $authenticatable->getAuthIdentifier(),
        ]);
    }
}

Then you need to register this in config/lunar-hub/customers.php.

return [
    'impersonate' => App\Auth\Impersonate::class,
    // ...
];

Once added you will see an option to impersonate the user when viewing a customer. This will then go to the URL specified in your class where you will be able to handle the impersonation logic.

Customer Groups

Default retail

Customer groups allow you to group your customers into logical segments which enables you to define different criteria on models based on what customer belongs to that group.

These criteria include things like:

Pricing

Specify different pricing per customer group, for example you may have certain prices for customers that are in the trade customer group.

Product Availability

You can turn product visibility off depending on the customer group, this would mean only certain products would show depending on the group they belong to. This will also include scheduling availability so you can release products earlier or later to different groups.

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You must have at least one customer group in your store and when you install Lunar you will be given a default one to get you started named retail.

Creating a customer group

$customerGroup = Lunar\Models\CustomerGroup::create([
    'name' => 'Retail',
    'handle' => 'retail', // Must be unique
    'default' => false,
]);

TIP

You can only have one default at a time, if you create a customer group and pass default to true, then the existing default will be set to false.

Scheduling availability

If you would like to add customer group availability to your own models, you can use the HasCustomerGroups trait.

// ...
use Lunar\Base\Traits\HasCustomerGroups;

class MyModel extends Model
{
    use HasCustomerGroups;
}

You will need to define the relationship for customer groups so that Lunar knows how to handle it.

public function customerGroup()
{
    return $this->hasMany(\Lunar\Models\CustomerGroup::class)->withTimestamps()->withPivot([/* .. */]);
}

You will then have access to the following methods:

Scheduling customer groups

// Will schedule for this product to be enabled in 14 days for this customer group.
$myModel->scheduleCustomerGroup(
    $customerGroup,
    $startDate,
    $endData,
    $pivotData
);

// Schedule the product to be enabled straight away
$myModel->scheduleCustomerGroup($customerGroup);

// The schedule method will accept an array or collection of customer groups.
$myModel->scheduleCustomerGroup(CustomerGroup::get());

Unscheduling customer groups

If you do not want a model to be enabled for a customer group, you can unschedule it. This will keep any previous start and end dates but will toggle the enabled column.

$myModel->unscheduleCustomerGroup($customerGroup, $pivotData);

Parameters

Field	Description	Type	Default
customerGroup	A collection of CustomerGroup models or id's.	mixed
startDate	The date the customer group will be active from.	DateTime
endDate	The date the customer group will be active until.	DateTime
pivotData	Any additional pivot data you may have on your link table. (not including scheduling defaults)	array

Pivot Data

By default the following values are used for $pivotData

• enabled - Whether the customer group is enabled, defaults to true when scheduling and false when unscheduling.

You can override any of these yourself as they are merged behind the scenes.

Retrieving the relationship

The HasCustomerGroup trait adds a customerGroup scope to the model. This lets you query based on availability for a specific or multiple customer groups.

The scope will accept either a single ID or instance of CustomerGroup and will accept an array.

$results = MyModel::customerGroup(1, $startDate, $endDate)->paginate();

$results = MyModel::customerGroup([
    $groupA,
    $groupB,
])->paginate(50);

The start and end dates should be DateTime objects with will query for the existence of a customer group association with the start and end dates between those given. These are optional and the following happens in certain situations:

Pass neither startDate or endDate

Will query for customer groups which are enabled and the startDate is after now()

Pass only startDate

Will query for customer groups which are enabled, the start date is after the given date and the end date is either null or before now()

Pass both startDate and endDate

Will query for customer groups which are enabled, the start date is after the given date and the end date is before the given date.

Pass endDate without startDate

Will query for customer groups which are enabled, the start date is after the now() and the end date is before the given date.

If you omit the second parameter the scope will take the current date and time.

TIP

A model will only be returned if the enabled column is positive, regardless of whether the start and end dates match.

Limit by customer group

Eloquent models which use the HasCustomerGroups trait have a useful scope available:

// Limit products available to a single customer group
Product::customerGroup($customerGroup)->get();

// Limit products available to multiple customer groups
Product::customerGroup([$groupA, $groupB])->get();

// Limit to products which are available the next day
Product::customerGroup($groupA, now()->addDay())->get();

// Limit to products which are available within a date range.
Product::customerGroup($groupA, now()->addDay(), now()->addDays(2))->get();