How to have different customers by website with same uid ?

[eric_rosfelder]

Hi expert,

We want to have separate customers in a hybris instance with 4 websites.
"Separate" means that :

• It must be possible to create a customer with the same "uid" on the 4 websites. Currently isn't possible because "uid" is unique.

• The addresses of customers must be separate too...

• Orders must be separate, but already done by hybris with personnalization

For example :

• On website "A", you can login with "test@example.com" with password "abc123"

• On website "B", you can login with "test@example.com" with password "qzefqzfeq"

• On website "C", you can login with "test@example.com" with password "abc123"

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I would like your advice on the solutions below :

1) Multi-tenants

At the begining of the project (before we know the needs of separates customers), some experts said me : "if you can avoid multi-tenants, it's better".

Using multi-tenants will permits to separate customers. But it introduce already the needs to manage many tenants. Maybe it is to overkill to use multi-tenant for only separate users by website ?

2) Changing customer key

The uid must be unique for a Customer. But i think it should be possible to change that (with development) in order to have "uid + website" = new key. So when a customer create a account on a website "A", his account will be associate with "website A". When he try to login, we verify that he have a login for this website. etc....

3) No others ideas

I didn't have another solution for doing that. If you have other ideas, it'll be appreciate !

Thanks in advance,

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Second Option is the best option with our custom code for authentication flow for adding store based on the site user accessing.

[eric_rosfelder · Accepted solution]

Hi , thanks for your answer.

[sasethia]

I would suggest to maintain uid as the key but change the logic of populating uid with something as email+websiteid and keep email as common across all customer profiles. In this way customer can access multiple sites with same email.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Changing the customer key might seem to be the easiest solution but what about the DB / tables size ?

It is not better and safer to separate the data from each site in different tenant? maybe performance as well?

Anyone has an experience on this, who can provide feedback?

[Former Member]

Hi Jean,

Not sure how the Key will affect the DB size/Table Size drastically. Agree with you Mutli Tenant approach definitely will add some overhead.