How to disable magento online sales functionality?

Question

I am implementing Magento Community edition and want to disable the "add to cart" functionality temporarily until i am prepared to proceed with online orders.

I wanted to use Magento without checkout and add to cart functionality.

Please advice. SIA

Answer 1

The add to cart buttons are all held in their own file in template/catalog/product/view/addtocart.phtml. You could replace the buttons with a temporary message.

You can disable the onepage checkout in the configuration (System >> Configuration >> Sales >> Checkout >> Checkout Options >> Disable Onepage Checkout). I've just tested this, however, and Google Checkout remains, so it's not a solid solution.

Answer 2

You could set the minimum order amount to 10million (or whatever) in the sales config - so when someone adds something to their cart you can have a custom message telling them the site is in test mode or whatever