How to disable a vendor

You may need to disable a vendor temporarily for different reasons. Vendors may announce a scheduled outage, maintenance, or warehouse relocation during which you may need to halt all operations (inventory updates, and orders fulfillment). 

Here are the steps to disable a vendor for each vendor type: 

Prebuilt Vendor Integrations: 

1. Go to Vendors > click on the vendor name > Overview > find the integration settings and uncheck all 3 boxes.                            
2. Go to Maintenance > Set All SKUs to Zero (this is to zero-out the current stock in your store. Remember, disabling inventory updates does not mean resetting it, so you need to make sure this step is done for a complete vendor disabling.

Custom Vendor Integrations:

1. Go to Vendors > click on the vendor name > Overview
2. Find any automated inventory files and click on Edit 
3. Switch the Strategy to None and Update. Once you're ready to re-enable the vendor, you may switch this setting back to where it was, Spark Shipping will keep all your settings in place so they won't be lost.
4. Go back to the vendor page and click on Update Fulfillment Settings > Update the strategy to None and Update.