Disable checkout and shopping cart ?
 

Hey guys,
A client of mine want a site with all of his products. But he doesnt want to sell the products yet. Maybe in half a year. Would it be possible to somehow disable the checkout and add to cart functions. So it would be an informational site with a catalog of products. And if he decides to do it i can just activate it or something.

Thanks.

Just comment out the add to cart and buy now buttons on their respective templates.

Thanx a lot. I guess i have to do a lot of comments. :lol:

No, just the two products templates and the product template.

Everything worked out good.
But now my client wants to sell all the products. But he wants to have a seperate section for online store.
Basically i need somehow to have 2 identical stores. One just catalog of products and another one online store.

Any suggestions what would be the best way to do that.

Thank you for you help

I am thinking of duplicaton the Products page and products template. But now sure if that will work.

How about just having one store as a catalog for non-logged in people, and then they can buy once registered?

How would i do that?
dicable anonymous checkout?

And i dont think that this will work. I need to have 2 versions running at the same time. One just products no price no buy now. Another one with products, prices, check out.

No, you could hide the whole price/add to cart sections from non-registered users. Going to be a whole lot easier than having two sites running at once, as you will need to purchase an additional license and make changes to both stores each time you make an edit.

I cant do what you saying because i need to versions at the same time.

I was not planning to run 2 stores, just duplicating the products page if its possible.

I guess I have no idea what you are trying to achieve???? :?

If i make the way you saying, visitors who are not loged in wont be able to see product's prices and buy them.
I dont need that. I need it to be visible for everyone.
One page without prices, the other page with prices and checkout function.

So what is to prevent people from going to the page where they can order products? What is the point of the catalog without prices if they can just go to another one to order them? That is why I don't understand what you are trying to do...

Try explaining this to a client.
Basically what he wants is to a have Our Catalog and Shop Online section.

Our Catalog - products and descriptions.
Shop Online - online store for all of the products.

I could have done a simple html pages of Our Catalog, but clients want to have an admin page where he can add/remove products.

So if i could just duplicate the products page and then comment out prices and check out for Our Catalog, that would work.

What do you think ?

Not sure how that is going to be possible......

why not gernerate your html off the pages without the bin and atc buttons, and have this at the main dir of your site...then add those features back and generate a 2nd html site in a subfolder named /store or what ever? Maybe i'm over simplifying this, but it doesnt seem too difficult.

Duplicate content....SE's will kill him....

ahh, wasn't thinkin' about that.