X-Cart forums

[Jeremy Smith]

I just wondered where the page is where when you want to close your shop for say a period of time, where is the file where it goes to to show a message to say it is closed?

Just wondered where it is.

Thanks in advance,
Jeremy.

[Tony Pearce]

bad news for search engines, best to disable add to cart or zero stock

[cflsystems]

All you have to do is go to admin, general settings, general options and close the store. As Tony said - don't do it or SE will start dropping your site from the indexes

[Jeremy Smith]

Ah sorry I have it.

I know this is not the best thing to do, but we are not able to take any orders over Christmas and I must customise the closed shop html page.

I have found it though, not sure why you came up with indexing though, but I can see why if it would pose a problem I suppose.

Will have a look at the URL that comes up just so I am clear about whats going on.

Thanks for your help,
Jeremy.

[cflsystems]

I would leave the site open, place a big banner over top something like "due to the holidays we will resume normal operation on/after date". Let customers decide if they want to order and wait few days for the items to ship. Closing the store is a bad move

[balinor]

DO NOT close your store - you'll lose all of your indexed pages. Just put a banner in place and disable the add to cart buttons.

[bigredseo]

As the other said, if you put something up saying closed, google is quick to drop you from their search engine listings. You could be spending weeks or months trying to get relisted.

A big image saying closed does the trick, or if you wanted you could put up some javascript that creates a popup alert (not a popup window) to alert users that the site is closed for the few days.

Best of luck to you over the holidays, but head the warning about search engines!

[hoosierglass]

Listen to these folks as they know what they are talking about. If you close your store like you are planning, it will cost you plenty of business. Just disable the add to cart option and change the front page welcome or even the header so it hits all pages. Put something like closed for the holidays. Re-open after the first of the year.

[wonder_fool]

Can someone tell me how to "Disable the 'Add to Cart' buttons?

Thanks,
~Jamie

[qualiteam]

You can edit the "skin1/customer/buttons/add_to_cart.tpl" template and replace this code:

{include file="customer/buttons/button.tpl" button_title=$lng.lbl_add_to_cart}

with this:

{*include file="customer/buttons/button.tpl" button_title=$lng.lbl_add_to_cart*}