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

[Anguz]

But, wouldn't someone that knows the Zen Cart files, be able to access the registration page by typing the URL directly and create his account without approval?

[gjh42]

I suppose that's where the "admin approval required" comes in. They can type all they want, but it won't do them any good in that case. And what percentage of possible registrants will know what to type anyway?