Making phone numbers unrequired?

[eeto]

I'm trying to design my shop to be as easy and fast to use as possible and therefore I would like to make the phone number field on the customer creation page optional or alternatively remove it entirely.

 

I would like to collect only that information which is necessary for my shop and not pester the customers with extra requirements. People are not very keen on giving their phone numbers away everywhere on the web and I'm afraid of ending up losing customers because of that.

 

Can this be done?

[chooch]

There's a contribution for this available from the contributions section, it also incorporates other details in it too. Just have a search of the contributions.

[knifeman]

I'm trying to design my shop to be as easy and fast to use as possible and therefore I would like to make the phone number field on the customer creation page optional or alternatively remove it entirely.

 

I would like to collect only that information which is necessary for my shop and not pester the customers with extra requirements. People are not very keen on giving their phone numbers away everywhere on the web and I'm afraid of ending up losing customers because of that.

 

Can this be done?

In Admin, My Store, Configuration, Minimum Values, you need to set a value for the telephone number length. Use 0 if you want no minimum.

 

Tim

[swtnhpy]

You can also do this very easily by deleting the code on the create_account.php page that says:

			<td><table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">
		  <tr>
			<td class="main"><?php echo ENTRY_TELEPHONE_NUMBER; ?></td>
			<td class="main"><?php echo tep_draw_input_field('telephone') . ' ' . (tep_not_null(ENTRY_TELEPHONE_NUMBER_TEXT) ? '<span class="inputRequirement">' . ENTRY_TELEPHONE_NUMBER_TEXT . '</span>': ''); ?></td>
		  </tr>
		  <tr>
			<td class="main"><?php echo ENTRY_FAX_NUMBER; ?></td>
			<td class="main"><?php echo tep_draw_input_field('fax') . ' ' . (tep_not_null(ENTRY_FAX_NUMBER_TEXT) ? '<span class="inputRequirement">' . ENTRY_FAX_NUMBER_TEXT . '</span>': ''); ?></td>
		  </tr>
		</table></td>

[eeto]

I tried swtnhpy's solution and simply removed the telephone and fax fields from the new customer and customer info pages. This alone didn't exactly solve the problem so I did what knifeman suggested also and made the minimum length of the telephone number 0 and the combination of these two tips seems to have done the trick. No problems so far, at least.

 

Thanks a lot, everyone!