Suggestions for implementing personalization

[Guest]

I'm creating an e-commerce site and would like users to be able to freely
navigate the pages without signing in. However, authorization and
authentication is required to purchase products.

Currently I am using session variables to monitor if the user is logged in
or not. I have inherited a base page from the page class to handle the check
for this in every page.

Forms authentication seems to forceful for this situation where I would like
to remain 'hands-off' until the user decides to login.

Suggestions are greatly appreciated, thank you.

 

[Lucas Tam]

I'm creating an e-commerce site and would like users to be able to
freely navigate the pages without signing in. However, authorization
and authentication is required to purchase products.

Currently I am using session variables to monitor if the user is
logged in or not. I have inherited a base page from the page class to
handle the check for this in every page.

Forms authentication seems to forceful for this situation where I
would like to remain 'hands-off' until the user decides to login.

What you probably want is to implement roles based authentication.