Completely Disable Hidden/Old Products

[acenetryan]

I'm trying to completely disable our older products that are no longer available. I realize that I can hide products on both the product and product group levels, but this just hides the products.

 

If someone were to look at an order link and start playing with gid=### they could access our hidden product groups and order products from it. I'd like to these products be completely inaccessible, yet, we can't simply remove them because past clients are still on these plans.

[othellotech]

set the stock level on and the quantity available to -1 will stop any orders

[acenetryan]

Thanks, othellotech. That stops them from being ordered, but you can still see the plan specs and pricing. I'd prefer that these hidden products not be viewable altogether.

 

I don't see any such setting. Perhaps it's time for a feature request.

[m00]

Thanks, othellotech. That stops them from being ordered, but you can still see the plan specs and pricing. I'd prefer that these hidden products not be viewable altogether.

 

I don't see any such setting. Perhaps it's time for a feature request.

 

I've set the stock of my product on -1 and the visibility on hidden. I'm not able to view any specifications or pricing options when I'm accessing cart.php?a=add&pid=PRODUCTID.

[acenetryan]

m00, try appending gid=### to the end of cart.php. You can hide groups in the admin area and it prevents them from being listed under "Browse Products & Services" on the main order page, but it does not prevent someone from visiting them directly.

 

For example, whmcs.com only has two groups listed on their order page, Licenses and Services. Yet, I can specify the gid GET variable manually and browse all of their other offerings:

 

https://www.whmcs.com/members/cart.php?gid=3

https://www.whmcs.com/members/cart.php?gid=4

https://www.whmcs.com/members/cart.php?gid=5

[Matt]

...but it does not prevent someone from visiting them directly...

 

It does if you hide the products aswell.

 

As othellotech suggested, if you want to prevent orders from the frontend, you just set the quantity to zero, and if you want to hide it from display as well, you can hide the group and the individual product. It is very rare that when you hide a product you wouldn't want to allow at least one person to order it, hence it still being available via a direct url, but you can completely disable it from showing as I described above so you have the best of both options.

 

Matt

[acenetryan]

Thanks, that's what I was missing. Thanks for the help, everyone.

[VicToMeyeZR]

On this, I would still like to see an option that would completely disable it from being on the order form.

 

A simple isactive() check would satisfy on the template I would imagine?

[easyhosting]

I have plans i sell through other sies (ebay etc.) which are discounted or speically designed for that particular market, i have these hidden from my main site, but i can pass the direct URL link to any buyers so they can order from their