I wanted to adjust the Zen Cart customer sign up to make it more straightforward and not to collect information that would not be used. After all, potential customers can be wary of giving out personal information are are suspicious when fields are asked for that are not strictly required for an on-line transaction for example, you don’t need someone’s date of birth and so it is pointless to ask for it.
To turn these off use a blank, not zero, value in admin, configuration, minimum value. Just use the backspace key to delete whatever value is present. Don’t use zero as an error will come up and require a customer entry. I have DOB, telephone and company as blank entries. You can also turn off the DOB and fax fields in admin, configuration, customer details.
If you wish to get rid of the * required text on the customer sign in form then you will need to edit includes/languages/english/.php around line 240 ENTRY_TELEPHONE_NUMBER_TEXT just delete the * and it will no longer appear on the customer sign up form. Please save the english.php file in the appropriate includes/languages/your_template_name folder/english.php rather than overwriting the original file.
