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Understanding the Preferences

The preferences Preferences tab lets you configure and fine-tune some of your store's details. These include a lot of various different aspects of the shop, be it from technical settings to the way the customer's shopping experience is made. ThusTherefore, all of the Preference tabs options should be carefully walked throughexamined, and you should think about consider each option carefully, as enabling or disabling any of them can have a real impact on your shop, and , ultimately, your sales.

The Preferences tab lets you configure and fine-tune some of your store's details. We will now look over all of the functions in this section.

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Clicking on the "Preferences" tab will directly take you directly to your store's general settings.

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• Enable Shop. Choose to make your shop active after you have made changes. Use it You can use it to deactivate your site when you need to perform maintenance on your shop. Note that the The webservice will still be active, and thus so your data will still be available this way.
• Maintenance IP. The maintenance IP allows people to access the store even if it is disabled. If you want to add more IP addresses, separate them with commas "," or click "Add my IP address". To find out your IP address, go to http://www.myipwhatismyip.dkcom/
• Enable SSL. Providing a an SSL connection to your shop is a great way to reassure your customers about the safety of their data (authentication, credit card, etc.) on your shop. 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. Choose "Yes".
• Check IP on the cookie. An added security measure, you can tell PrestaShop to check that the user does come comes from the IP stored in his cookie.
• Increase Front Office security. This adds a handful of security tokens on to your shop , in order to improve its security.
• Back Office help boxes. Some of the back-office fields have a helpful legend that pops under them, in order for you to better understand their usage. You can disable them if you feel they are unnecessary.
• Order process type. By default, the customer has to validate complete 5 successive steps in order to complete his order checkout process. You can also choose to have it all done in one a single page. Know that that The page will be very wordy, so it might scare users away... but does have its success in some countrieslonger, but many customers prefer this approach.
• Enable guest checkout. Allow orders to be made placed by non-registered users.
• Terms of service. With this option, your customers have to accept your terms of service to complete an order.
• Conditions of use CMS page. Your shop's conditions of use are to be stored in a static page (called "CMS page"). You should indicate which, Select which page to use so that PrestaShop can point to it correctly.
• Offer gift-wrapping. Suggest gift-wrapping to customer and possibility of leaving a message. Always a nice idea for people who want to buy gifts.
• Gift-wrapping price. Set the price of your gift-wrapping service.
• Gift-wrapping tax. If needed, indicate to which tax the gift-wrapping is tied to.
• Attachment maximum size. Enables you to not overcharge your servers with big Protects you from overloading your server with large files.
• Offer recycled packaging. If you can offer, it may put your shop into a good lightsome customers may appreciate it.
• Cart re-display at login. If the customer had a cart that wasn't checked-out, display it once he logs back in.
• Round mode. Choose the rounding method: always superior (round up), always inferior (round down), or classic rounding.
• Automatically check for module updates. Display new and ready-to-be-updated modules at the top of the "Modules" tab.
• Hide optimization tips. The back-office homepage gives you a handful of optimization tips. If you are better off without them, change that settingwould prefer not to see them, you can use this option to hide them.
• Display suppliers and manufacturers. Display manufacturers and suppliers list even if corresponding blocks are disabled.
• Use Smarty 2 instead of 3. Change this ONLY if you know what you are doing. This checkbox is reserved for shops using a theme that has not yet been updated to Smarty 3. If it includes yours, you should update it, since PrestaShop will soon deprecate no longer support Smarty 2 templates.
• Timezone. Set your shop's timezone.

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