Shopping controls overridden by credits

As a shopper, you can use employee credits to purchase a restricted set of supplier products based on the category or product model. At the same time, you could be restricted, via Shopping Control, from viewing those supplier products.

In this case, the employee credits allocated to you override the shopping control settings and temporarily allow you to view and shop those specific supplier products which are tied to these employee credits. Once this credit is consumed or reaches expiry, the shopping control settings resume precedence.

Consider these scenarios:

Scenario 1: A shopping control exists, according to which you, from the marketing department, cannot view and shop any supplier product in the IT hardware category. An employee credit for hardware refresh is created for you. This allows you to search, browse, and shop from the laptop category, which is a child of the IT Hardware category. You can also view any child category of the laptop category, as well as any supplier product within these categories.

Scenario 2: A shopping control exists, according to which you, from the marketing department, cannot view and shop any supplier product in the IT hardware category. An employee credit for hardware refresh is created for you. This allows you to search, browse, and shop MacBook product models, which comes under the laptop category, whose parent category is IT hardware. However, you are not able to view any other products within the laptop or IT hardware categories because the credit does not allow you access to the other products in this category.