[quote=Adam Bernstein;181]One other thing to specify:  in my most recent post in this thread, I am assuming that the "VIP Customers" role has been applied to "VIP Only" category.[/quote] 
   I failed to mention that this is indeed how I setup the VIP Role.  Also, I just created an Issue for this.    
https://github.com/Hotcak...merce/core/issues/31    In the meantime, you could add some code to your category view to address this issue as a workaround.  This would allow you to check for the role as well.
Will Strohl, Upendo Ventures 
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