The "Administration" page contains general options and settings on the way PrestaShop itself works. It has three sections.

General

This section is for the more general settings:

• Automatically check for module updates. You can ask PrestaShop to regularly check if there are new versions of your modules available from the Addons website. If so, the "Modules" page will display a "Update" button for installed modules, right next to their "Uninstall" button.
• Check the cookie's IP address. This is an added security measure: you can tell PrestaShop to check that the user comes from the IP stored in his or her browser's cookie.
• Lifetime of the front office cookie. By default, the longevity of a PrestaShop cookie is 480 hours (20 days). You can reduce it if you feel your security needs it.
• Lifetime of the back office cookie. By default, the longevity of a PrestaShop cookie is 480 hours (20 days). You can reduce it if you feel your security needs it.

Upload quota

This section helps you define the authorized size of uploaded files from your own team – not from your customers.

There are three options, one being general and the two others being more specific:

• Maximum size for attachment. The default value is directly taken from your server's settings, but you can lower it if necessary.
• Maximum size for a downloadable product. If you sell virtual products (services, booking and downloadable products), this setting can limit the size of the files your team can upload – and thus the size of the final product. Plan in advance so that you never leave one of your team members blocked.
• Maximum size for a product's image. Likewise, you can limit the size of images that you or your team can upload to your shop. This can serve as a handy reminder that team members should strive to reduce the size of an image, as it is often not useful to upload anything more than 600x600 (which is roughly 200 kB when correctly compressed). See the "Images" page in the "Design" menu for the image sizes your shop is set to use. This has the added benefit of saving on both server space and bandwidth usage, as well as processor power (since PrestaShop resizes uploaded image to give you thumbnails and more).

Notifications

Notifications are displayed at the very top of any administration page when you have loaded it, right next to the shop's name. They display the number of new items since the last time you clicked on them.

When clicking on the bell icon, if will open a small table with the various kinds of notifications.

You can choose not to receive them for some content types:

• Show notifications for new orders. It displays the numbers, amounts and customer names for the order that were last placed on your shop. From there on, you can either open any order's single page, or open the "Orders" page to get the complete list.
• Show notifications for new customers. It displays the name of the customers that registered since last time. From there on, you can either open any customer's single page, or open the "Customers" page to get the complete list.
• Show notifications for new messages. It displays the email of the persons who last sent you a message using the contact form on your shop. From there on, you can either open any message, or open the "Customer Service" page to get the complete list.