ecommerce secure acess page(s)

Hi Everyone,

I want to create a members only access page to the wooCommerce section of my website.

What I have is the following:

– A login option in my menu.
– This brings the visitor to a welcome page where he/she can enter login and password or fill-in a form requesting access. (This will be a manual process. The form is sent to me for validation).
– One user enters login credentials and is authenticated, WooCommerce section is displayed.

Can anyone recommend a good way of doing this? Be it through WordPress’s built in capabilities or via a plug-in.

Thanks in advance to all who reply.

Marc