Note about preventing self-registration in account-based storefronts

In account-based storefronts, accounts are created manually by merchant administrators in Commerce. Therefore, storefronts that support account-based contacts must be careful not to allow this type of contact to self-register.

This section applies to Open Storefront Framework (OSF) and Storefront Classic.

To accommodate this use case, the example in the Example for restricting guest checkout section would need to be modified to restrict account-based contacts to logging in only. For storefronts that support both individual, registered shoppers and account-based contacts, your UI will have to make it clear that the self-registration process creates a personal account only, not a business account.