Understanding the Preferences
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.
General
Clicking on the "Preferences" tab will directly take you to your store’s general settings.
- Enable Shop. Choose to make your shop active after you have made changes.
- 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 ",". To find out your IP address, go to http://www.myip.dk/
- Enable SSL. Providing a 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 from the IP stored in his cookie.
- Increase Front Office security. This adds a handful of tokens on 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 your 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 5 successive steps in order to complete his order checkout. You can choose to have it all done in one page. Know that that page will be very wordy, so it might scare users away...
- Enable guest checkout. Allow orders to be made 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 condition of use are to be stored in a static page (called "CMS page"). You should indicate which, 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 which tax the gift-wrapping is tied to.
- Attachment maximum size. Enables you to not overcharge your servers with big files.
- Offer recycled packaging. If you can offer, it may put your shop into a good light.
- Cart re-display at login. If the customer had a cart that wasn't checked-out, display it once he logs in.
- Round mode. Choose the rounding method: always superior, always inferior, 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 without them, change that setting.
- 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 check is reserved for shop that have a theme that has not yet been updated to Smarty 3. If it includes yours, you should update it, since PrestaShop will soon deprecate Smarty 2 templates.
- Timezone. Set your shop's timezone.