Selecting General settings -> General options enables you to edit the general configuration of your store affecting the look and functionality of the customer, administrator and provider zones.
Click on General settings in the Administration menu, select General options from the section menu.
Set the options below according to your preferences:
• Check this to close your shop temporarily: Selecting this check box makes the customer zone of your store inaccessible to visitors. While your store is closed, a special message is displayed to your customers saying that the site is inaccessible temporarily and inviting to visit the store later.
• Key for access to a temporarily closed shop: Enter a key with the help of which you will be able to view the customer zone while the store is closed (e.g. If the key is'123', use http://www.yourhost.com/xcart/customer/home.php?shopkey=123 to access your customer zone)
• Disable anonymous checkout: Selecting this check box disables checkout for non-registered customers.
• Enable 'Issue Number' and 'Valid from' fields: If selected, 'Issue Number' and 'Valid from' fields will be included into CC info form.
• Download key TTL(hours): This value (Time-To-Live) defines the period during which your download key will be valid if you are selling electronically distributed products. Ensure sufficient download time.
• Enable debugging console: When this option is enabled, a pop-up window appears that displays the list of templates used on the current X-Cart page. The information in this window is refreshed every time the page is reloaded. Use this option only when you want to work with templates and disable it when you finish.
Note. If Webmaster mode is enabled, the debugging console can be used to find out the location of the templates.
• Redirect customer to cart: If selected, your customers will be redirected to the shopping cart every time they add a product to cart.
• Disable inventory tracking: Use this option to disable tracking the number of items in stock. Select this option only if the number of items in stock is "unlimited" for all the products in your store.
• Minimum allowed order total: You can set the minimum order total that will be accepted by your store. Your customers will not be able to place an order if the order total is less than the amount specified in this field.
• Disable products which are out of stock: If selected, the products which are out of stock will not be shown to the customers.
• Moderated sign-up for membership: Select this option if you want sign-up for membership to be moderated.
• Default country: This option allows you to set the default country. It will affect a lot of drop-down lists, language selection etc.
• Default zipcode: This option allows you to set the default zipcode.
• Default state: This option allows you to set the default state.
• Default city: This option allows you to set the default city.
• When a customer isn't logged in, it is presumed that he is from the default country: If selected, a customer who is not logged in will not be able to make purchases but he will be shown the approximate costs on shipping, taxes, and the available shipping methods for his future purchases.
• Primary currency symbol: Here you set your primary currency symbol, all prices and customer charges will be calculated using the primary currency.
• Alternative currency symbol (empty to disable). Note that credit card charges are made using primary currency: The alternative currency symbol is used to express your prices in the units of another currency. Enter a symbol to be used for the alternative currency, if you want the price in alternative currency units to appear in brackets next to the primary currency price. Leave the field blank if you want to use only the primary currency symbol.
• Alternative currency exchange rate: Enter the alternative currency exchange rate.
• Weight symbol: Enter the weight symbol (for example lb, kg etc.)
• Grams in the unit of weight defined by the weight symbol: Define the unit of weight in grams.
• If ticked, the categories list always shows root categories: Select this check box if you want root categories to be shown in the categories list irrespective of what category level a customer is browsing currently. If you leave this check box unselected, the categories list will show only the categories available for browsing on the current level.
• Do not ask customers to enter CC information while getting registered: If checked, customers will not be asked to enter their credit card information in the sign-up form (Recommended)
• Extra fields limit (per provider): Set the maximum number of extra fields that a provider will be able to define.
• Enable Credit Card info validation: Selecting this check box enables validation of the credit card information provided by a customer : a special script will check the conformity of the credit card number, CVV2 and expiration date with certain rules.
• Enable default password warning: If necessary, you can enable default password warning here.
• Time difference between shop location and host server location (hours): This feature allows the shop admin to determine the time difference between the real shop location and the host server location. Setting this option allows real-time control of the customers' orders by the shop admin.
• Enable tracking statistics: Select this check box if you want to enable tracking statistics gathering. Unselect the check box to stop gathering tracking statistics in your store.
• Hide disfunctional payment methods from customers: Select this check box to prevent your customers from using disfunctional payment methods. A method is disfunctional if an HTTPS module or some other essential component that it requires is missing. If you do not hide disfunctional methods from your customers, they will be able to use them to provide their CC info (such payments can be processed only manually)
• Create all necessary categories during products import: If you select this check box, providers will be able to create categories in the process of importing products. If you leave it unselected, providers will not be able to create categories - all the categories will be defined by the store admin.
• Parse Smarty tags in the content of embedded static pages: Select this check box if you want your static pages to be treated as templates.
• Use HTTPS for users' login and registration: Select this check box if you want to enable your customers to use HTTPS during login and registration.
• Use secure login form on a separate page (HTTPS): If you select this check box, the authorization pages of the admin, provider and customer zones will contain links to separate pages from which the users of your store will be able to log into the appropriate zones via HTTPS.
• Do not redirect customers from HTTPS to HTTP: Select this check box if you want to enable your customers stay in HTTPS all the time. If you leave the box unselected, HTTP will be used for the pages where security is not required.
• The full path to Perl interpreter executable (e.g. WIN32: 'd:\perl\bin\perl.exe'; UNIX: '/usr/bin/perl' or leave this field empty): Use this field to define the full path to Perl binary for the upgrade to work under Windows operating system.
• Preferred HTTPS module (if not found the first available module will be used): Use the drop-down box to choose the module you would prefer to use for sending HTTPS queries (Net::SSLeay, CURL, libCURL, Open SSL executable, HTTPS-cli executable). Please make sure the module you want to use is already installed on the server (You can check it using Administration menu > Summary > Environment info). If the preferred module is unavailable, X-Cart will use the first available module that it will find.
• Use JavaScript version for state and country selector: If you select this check box, a JavaScript mechanism will facilitate the process of selecting the state of residence by a customer: only the states of the country he selected will be shown (if the states are not specified, the customer will be allowed to enter the name of his state into an input box. If the country has no states, no states will be offered for selection).
• Use counties: If you select this box, the store users will be able to specify their county of residence in the profile details. (Do not forget to activate 'County' field in General settings -> User profiles options). 'County' field may be either an input box or a select box (If you want to enable your customers to select counties from a list, please set up counties via States in the Management menu).
• Display CVV2 input box at the last stage of checkout if Manual CC processing is used: If you select this box, CVV2 will be displayed at the last stage of checkout if Manual CC processing is used.
Click on Save to save the changes.
Related topics:
General Settings