How should customers pay when using a shop?

Explain in more detail why there shouldn't be a shopping cart; perhaps a solution can be found.

I can't quite imagine this.

If you use the "Product Catalog" object, you can uncheck "visible" when selecting "Button" and the customer will no longer be able to access the shopping cart, see screenhot (1)

Instead, add a link to an order form or similar to the products under "Details", see screenshot (2)

If something else is meant, please explain in more detail.

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I'm not going through and disabling every product one-by-one. That is insanity

X5 should have a "disable store" button like every other cart system does.....????  If it doesn't then that is a serious shortcoming.

The shopping cart in X5 is the weakest link and remains so long after it was introduced.

X5 so good at so many things, and so bad at so many others.....

The shopping cart page can be set to "invisible" using CSS code.

To do this, in WebSite X5, go to "3 Sitemap" and scroll down to the special pages and mark "Onlineshop: Shopping Cart and Checkout".

Then click on "Properties" at the top and click the "Advanced" tab.

Now, under...

     Custom code:
     Before the closing </HEAD> tag

...add this CSS code:

     <style>
     #imCartContainer {
     display: none;
     }
     </style>

It's possible that the shopping cart will still be displayed if the shopping cart page is in the browser cache. Press F5, and the browser will retrieve the modified shopping cart page from the web server, where no shopping cart is displayed.

I just tested this.

You can now test it in my demo shop to find any gaps. See

My demo shop >> https://findelinks.de/123shop-hosteurope/cartsearch/index.html (no sales)

After some time, I might remove the CSS code from my demo shop and the shopping cart will be displayed again.

Thank you Daniel, I appreciate that maybe it can be done with custom code.

X5 needs a "store closed" option switch - just like every other cart like ecwid, cs-cart, vibracart, etc., does.

Something you can do from the app as well in case you cannot get to your PC to export.

The big question will be when Incomedia will add a “store closed” switch to WebSite X5.

It will be quicker if the shop menu items are removed. Optional: Add CSS code.

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Delete the shop menu items at the top; these can later be pushed back up again from the special pages at the bottom if necessary.

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To be on the safe side, you can rename the folders in the WebSite X5 FTP window so that no one comes to the shop via search engines or links.

You can append an abbreviation to the folder names, e.g. -temp-closed

   cart-temp-closed

   Cartsearch-temp-closed

   product-temp-closed

   wishlist-temp-closed

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You can also make it even easier by marking the 3 entries one after the other under "3 Sitemap" at the bottom of the special pages and clicking on "Protect" at the top, see screenshots (1) (2)

Depending on the shop, you could display a notice in the header that the shop is temporarily closed, see screenshot (3) below.

It's almost like a "Shop offline" button, isn't it?

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Hello Adrian,
I will report your feedback about this and add this function as a suggestion to be implemented in the future.
Thank you.