Disable Account Creation

[Tig]

I work for a hospital (my 'real' job, as web design, at this point, is a hobby that I'd really like to be a career but lack documentable schooling) and I'm thinking of seeing if they want to use Zen Cart to handle our orders for supplies that we supply as a courtsey to several doctor's offices, etc.

My problem:

The hospital is a large corporation and, therefore, wants to have absolute control over everything (whch I learned from expirence). Is there a way to disable account creation and have it so an admin has to create a new customer profile? Or, barring that, is there a way to input a 'secret code' that customers / offices would have to input to create an account?

Admin approval would work too, but only as a last resort.

[Merlinpa1969]

Just remove the links to create account,
leave them hidden and then the admin can manualy setup accounts,

[Tig]

That'll work! Thank you!

[johnd]

Just remove the links to create account,
leave them hidden and then the admin can manualy setup accounts,

How/where does the admin manually setup accounts?
Thanks
John

[misty]

Try Mod from
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_41&products_id=454

[johnd]

Try Mod from
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_41&products_id=454

Thanks, Misty.
- John

[jumphotink]

I was looking at this thread and I have a potential client who is looking to do something similar (remove the account creation and add it manually via the admin). I noticed Merlinpa1969 suggested

just remove the links to create account,
leave them hidden and then the admin can manualy setup accounts

Where can I do this - is there a setting in the admin, or do I need to edit a file (if so, which ones)?

Thanks.
Jeremy