Removing Recurring Profiles

Question

We are into the fine tuning process of our webshop. So I was scrolling down the customer profile page with my test account and I saw recurring profiles

I looked it up and we have decided we don't need it.Now the question:

How do I turn this off?

I found a thread of magento-1.4 saying you have to manually disable this function. But I'd rather not manually destroy a function unless I really have to. So:

Could anyone tell me if I still need to disable this function manually, or if magento-1.9 has a built in option to do that?

Answer 1

Create a small module for this.follow the following steps

Step 1: Create a xml file in the app/etc/modules/Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks.xml

<?xml version="1.0" ?> 
<config>
    <modules>
        <Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks>
            <active>true</active> 
            <codePool>local</codePool> 
        </Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks>
    </modules>
</config>

Step 2: create a xml file in the app/code/local/Neo/CustomerNavigationLinks/etc/config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" ?> 
<config>
    <modules>
        <Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks>
            <version>0.0.1</version> 
        </Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks>
    </modules>
    <frontend>
        <layout>
            <updates>
                <customernavigationlinks>
                    <file>neo_customernavigationlinks.xml</file> 
                </customernavigationlinks>
            </updates>
        </layout>
    </frontend>
    <global>
        <blocks>
            <customer>
                <rewrite>
                    <account_navigation>Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks_Block_Account_Navigation</account_navigation> 
                </rewrite>
            </customer>
        </blocks>
        <helpers>
            <customernavigationlinks>
                <class>Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks_Helper</class> 
            </customernavigationlinks>
        </helpers>
    </global>
</config>

Step 3: Create app/code/local/Neo/CustomerNavigationLinks/Block/Account/Navigation.php

<?php
class Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks_Block_Account_Navigation extends Mage_Customer_Block_Account_Navigation
{
    public function removeLinkByName($name)
    {
        unset($this->_links[$name]);
        return $this;
    }
}

Step 4: Create app/code/local/Neo/CustomerNavigationLinks/Helper/Data.php

<?php
class Neo_CustomerNavigationLinks_Helper_Data extends Mage_Core_Helper_Abstract
{

}

Step 5: Create app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/neo_customernavigationlinks.xml

<?xml version="1.0" ?> 
<layout>
    <customer_account>
        <reference name="customer_account_navigation">
            <action method="removeLinkByName">
                <name>billing_agreements</name> 
            </action>
            <action method="removeLinkByName">
                <name>recurring_profiles</name> 
            </action>
        </reference>
    </customer_account>
</layout>

Clear cache and see you have done.