Here's the situation...

A Zen Cart store has to link to an external store for its products and also have its own, "regular" product catalogue.

For external products, the customer will have to be redirected to an affiliate's product pages. E. g. product page link refers to a product page in the affiliate's web store.

Now, there are a couple issues with Zen Cart... First, it either shows the "out of stock" image when there're 0 products in stock, or the "add to cart" option. Adding a product to cart inevitably leads to checkout, etc.

So instead there's got to be a simple option for linking the product directly instead of adding to cart, and no "add to cart" or "out of stock" functions on a product description page. Or is there any workaround?