General Preferences

The "General" preference page features a handful of specific settings that could not fit in the other menus. They are nonetheless essential:

• Enable SSL. SSL means "Secure Sockets Layer", and includes TSL (for "Transport Layer Security"). Both are cryptographic Internet protocols which secure Web communications. You can read more about these protocols on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer.
  Providing an SSL connection to your shop is not only excellent for any Internet exchanges, but also a great way to reassure your customers about the safety of their own data (authentication, credit card, etc.) on your shop, as modern browsers now display visual cues showing that the connection is secured. If your hosting provider does support SSL, make sure to activate PrestaShop's SSL support, by clicking on the link. This will reveal a selector, where you should choose "Yes".
• Increase Front Office security. This adds security tokens to your shop in order to improve its security. In effect, each URL is specific to a customer's session, and cannot be used as-is on another browser, thus protecting whatever information they might have stored during that session.
• Allow iframes on HTML fields. The option enables you to put iframes in text fields, such as product description. Iframes are HTML elements that make it possible to load an external content into the page's own content. We recommend that you leave this option disabled unless necessary.
• Round mode. Once taxes and discount are applied, a price can feature too many decimals, such as $42.333333333. The round mode is used during the price calculation process (taxes, discount, etc.). There are three modes:
  • Superior. Rounding up: 42.333333333 becomes 42.34.
  • Inferior. Rounding down: 42.333333333 becomes 42.33.
  • Classical. It rounds the value up of down depending on the value: up when above .5, down when below .5.
• Display suppliers and manufacturers.  Enable suppliers and manufacturers pages on your front-office even when their respective modules are disabled.
• Enable Multistore. This little option has major implications: it turns your single-shop installation of PrestaShop into a multiple stores installation. This gives you access to the new "Multistore" page in the "Advanced parameters" menu, and every administration page can be contextualized to apply its settings to either all stores, a specific group of stores, or a single store.
  You can read more about PrestaShop's multistore feature by reading the "Managing multiple shops" chapter of this guide.
• Main Shop Activity. You might have set the wrong shop activity when installing PrestaShop. You can choose the correct activity here.