Point customer to distributor website

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I work with distributors in some countries and website direct sales in others. We block purchase in those countries where we have a distributor using the well-known methods. The problem is psychological. The customer gets well into the checkout stage before he gets the message that he can't buy it from us. This is the equivalent of taking a child's lollipop away !!!

What I would like ideally is to intercept the process as early as possible based on customer zone and offer a click to re-direct to the distributor for that zone. Any thoughts on if or how this could be achieved with minimal trauma to the customer's expectations?

Conrad

Thanks Nicolas,

That gives me something to go on It needs some thinking about because customers do travel and can be geo-located away from their actual base so that could cause some frustration. Ideally the re-direct should occur based on the country entered in the address fields. Or have the option after the geo-location intercept to return to the shop and purchase normally.

This isn't a show-stopper problem - I just want to find a friendlier way of taking the customer to the correct place to buy instead of a blunt message halfway thru checkout.

All the best for the New Year, and many thanks for all your superb support.

Conrad