Can you remove the buy button for a single product without it saying out of stock?

This may be an option for you to consider.

I have a Retail Client who advertise Products & Prices with "0 zero In Stock" because they are selling In Store as well as Online. Thus actual Stock levels are never certain. So in this case the "Add to Cart" button is replaced with the advice "Enquire to confirm availability".

To achieve this, enter the following parameters into your includes.asp configuration file and upload to server.

(1) Prevent snippet reporting availability http://schema.org/InStock AND http://schema.org/OutOfStock
setschemaavailability=FALSE

(2) Change Out Of Stock message
'xxOutStok'='Enquire to confirm availability'

(3) Change Ask a Question button text.
'xxAskQue'='Enquire'

(4) Note that you also need to define Social Media Buttons and detailpagelayout >>

I presume that ASP code is correct.
View a sample webpage here >>
Run that URL through the Google Rich Results Test Tool >>

Gary

Hi, I think (Gary), that would impact all products, no?

Back many years ago, I published a tip here that may do what you want - https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/support/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=100929


I think this is what you want - an updated variation of my old code.


That should be placed in your proddetail.asp page before the <!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/incproddetail.asp"--> line

Let me know if it doesn't work.
If Gary's solution is not global, maybe it's better.

Thanks,
David

Just to add, I force customers to the product detail page to add to cart.
I realize many stores to have the add to cart set on the products page. This would be more complicated if that's the case.
Thanks,
David

David, YES. My solution is a fairly simple GLOBAL config change that will impact all products that are "Out Of Stock". That rich snippet is optional.

Your solution would involve editing the proddetail.asp page code on every occasion you had another ProductID to add.

Gary

Thanks for the clarification Gary.

David

Hi Wayne,
Try this
add a custom css entry to the product you wish to hide these elements

go to product admin > list products > from the quick entry drop down choose > custom css > add 'nobuyorstock' without the quotes

then add this to your css file

.nobuyorstock .addtocart, .nobuyorstock .detailtocart, .nobuyorstock .outofstock, .nobuyorstock .detailoutofstock {display:none;}



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Well there you go.
I was thinking there might be another way.
Kudos Phil, I like that one best.

David

Thank you all so much for the advice. The solution is perfect!

This works perfectly. Is there a way to remove the price also?

Hi LadyM,
Just add two more additions to the css rule and force a page refresh

.nobuyorstock .addtocart, .nobuyorstock .detailtocart, .nobuyorstock .outofstock, .nobuyorstock .detailoutofstock, .nobuyorstock .prodprice, .nobuyorstock .detailprice{display:none;}



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Perfect. Thanks Phil

Another challenge for me. I tried to figure out the formula but it's not working well. I now need to remove the Product ID and the Ask a question from those detail pages. Can you help?

Hi LadyM
Take a look here - https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/help/css-layouts.asp#proddetailorder

In your vsadmin/includes.asp you should have the detailpagelayout parameter, just remove productid from that list

For the askaquestion look for this line in your vsadmin/includes.asp - socialmediabuttons="askaquestion,emailfriend, facebook,linkedin,twitter,google,pinterest,custom" and remove the askaquestion



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I only need this in one category, rather than global though. Like the css above. I don't want it removed everywhere. It's a regular cart but there is a new category for teacher bios that doesn't need the regular stuff. The teachers will change annually so getting it set up right now is important.

add this to the custom css for all the products in that one category - nodetailidask

add this to your css
.nodetailidask .detailid, .nodetailidask .smaskaquestion{display:none}





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That's exactly what I needed Phil, thanks.