How to Enable or Disable a Payment Method

You may want to keep a payment method in your system without deleting the method, but you may not want that payment method to be available for use. You can enable the payment method (make it active) or disable the payment method (make it inactive) in your system. After you enable or disable a payment method, you must refresh the site cache for the new payment method status to be effective.

To enable or disable a payment method

  1. Click Start, point to Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 , and then click Customer and Orders Manager.

  2. In Customer and Orders Manager, in the Views pane, click Payment Methods.

  3. In the Payment Methods pane, right-click the shipping method that you want to enable or disable and then click Enable or Disable.

    The status of the payment method as enabled or disabled appears in the Preview Details pane.

To refresh the site cache

  1. Click Start, point to Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 , and then click Customer and Orders Manager.

  2. In Customer and Orders Manager, in the Views pane, click Payment Methods.

  3. In the Tasks pane, click Refresh Site Cache.

See Also

Other Resources

What is a Payment Method?

How to View Payment Method Details

How to Create a Payment Method

How to Modify a Payment Method

Searching the Business Management Applications

Deleting Information from the Business Management Applications

Refreshing the Business Management Application Cache