Customer still able to buy

[disciple]

Hi,

I set a customer as "Pending Approval - May browse with prices but may not buy"

This did not work as the customer was able to log in and purchase products.

Is this a bug or is there a setting I am missing or what?

Thanks

Rick

[DrByte]

The "pending" status is only enforced if you have site-wide requirement for authorization on all users.

Admin->Configuration->Customer Details->Customer Approval Status - Authorization Pending

It seems like you want option 3 instead of the default 0:

Customer Approval Status - Authorization Pending
Customer must be Authorized to shop
0= Not required (default)
1= Must be Authorized to Browse
2= May browse but no prices unless Authorized
3= Customer May Browse and May see Prices but Must be Authorized to Buy

[disciple]

I do not want to have to authorize every new customer as we receive 50-100 per day.

Is there anyway to disallow a customer from purchasing products short of deleting their account?

Thanks

Rick

[DrByte]

The simplest way to do that as of v1.3.7 is to set the switch to 3 as shown above, and then make this small coding change:

/includes/modules/create_account.php
around line 256:

                            'customers_authorization' => (int)CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL_AUTHORIZATION

change to:

                            'customers_authorization' => 0

and save as an override to /includes/modules/YOURTEMPLATENAME/create_account.php

Now new accounts will be auto-authorized, and customers whom you've manually de-authorized will be prevented from completing purchases.


v1.3.8, when released, will have more flexibility built-in, but the above will work for now.

[disciple]

Thanks!!