Turn off Affiliate CPanel

We have recently turned on the affiliate program in Hikashop. We are very happy with how it works however would like to restrict the registration of affiliates to invitation only and not display stats to the users. Basically we just need to turn off the Affiliate option from the user CPanel while still having the Affiliate program active.

Is this possible and how?

There is no option for that.

You should edit the file "cpanel" via the menu Display->Views and add the line below at the beginning:

<?php array_pop($this->buttons); ?>

Thank you this has worked!