Many SC Commerce installations are only used to show a product range, with no need for cart, checkout, shipping or payments. These sites are intended to be a catalogue, rather than a shop. The snippets below remove the add-to-cart buttons and simplify the back end to hide unused menu items and tabs. The text on the “Add to cart” button on the category pages becomes “Read more”.

The code example only leaves Settings and Status as admin menu items, and General and Products as settings tabs. You can edit the snippet to show or hide others.

		/**
 * Make SC Commerce a catalogue site and remove selling functions
 */

// Removes purchasing functionality from product and category views. Hides unnecessary tabs and menu items in back end.
// https://plugintests.com/plugins/wporg/woocommerce/tips
// https://react2wp.com/remove-hide-add-to-cart-button-in-woocommerce-while-disabling-keeping-purchase-functionality/

add_filter( 'woocommerce_is_purchasable', '__return_false'); // Disable purchase functionality and remove adding to cart button from normal products

remove_action('woocommerce_single_variation', 'woocommerce_single_variation', 10); // Remove price from variations

remove_action('woocommerce_single_variation', 'woocommerce_single_variation_add_to_cart_button', 20); // Remove add to cart button from variations

add_action('admin_menu', 'scc_woo_hide_commerce_menus', 71);

function scc_woo_hide_commerce_menus() {

  //Hide "Commerce → Orders".
  remove_submenu_page('woocommerce', 'edit.php?post_type=shop_order');
  //Hide "Commerce → Customers".
  remove_submenu_page('woocommerce', 'wc-admin&path=/customers');
  //Hide "Commerce → Reports".
  remove_submenu_page('woocommerce', 'wc-reports');
  //Hide "Commerce → Settings".
  //remove_submenu_page('woocommerce', 'wc-settings');
  //Hide "Commerce → Status".
  //remove_submenu_page('woocommerce', 'wc-status');
  //Hide "Commerce → Extensions".
  remove_submenu_page('woocommerce', 'wc-addons');

}

add_filter('woocommerce_settings_tabs_array', 'scc_woo_remove_setting_tabs', 200, 1);

function scc_woo_remove_setting_tabs($tabs) {

  // Declare the tabs we want to hide
  $tabs_to_hide = array(
    'Shipping',
    'Payments',
    'Emails',
    'Advanced',
    'Accounts & Privacy',
  );
  $tabs = array_diff($tabs, $tabs_to_hide);

  return $tabs;

}