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Main admin settings

This page contains some of the crucial settings for your Ecommerce Template store and we have detailed the various options below.

Admin settings

Country settings

This is where you specify where you are selling from and the currency on your store will adjust accordingly. It will also affect such things as the date display format, tax settings and the shipping estimator. The currency format can be overwritten on your store if necessary
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Currency conversion

It is possible to show your product prices in up to three other currencies other than the default. The alternative prices will be shown on your product and product detail pages below the main default price. Sales will always be processed in the default currency but it does provide a guide for international purchasers regarding the approximate price in their local currency...more details more details

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Email options

Following a successful order on your store you will be notified by email if you have checked the Email confirmation box. The email will be sent to the address specified below that. It's important that the email is valid for the domain so you@yourdomain.com would be correct, you@anotherdomain.com would not. For the PHP version that should be all the information that is required. For the ASP version you will see the extra fields outlined above and these along with our email troubleshooting guide are outlined here.

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Store URL

This is a very important setting as it is used widely on the store. Make sure the URL is the full URL of your store, this would normally be http://www.yourstore.com/ but if you have placed your files in a separate folder then you would need to change the setting accordingly. There is a suggestion above the box that should help you. Do not add a page name such as index.php or categories.asp to the setting here.

Products per page

This is where you specify how many products you would like to appear on your products page. Too many products will cause the page to load more slowly, too few and your users may have to click through many pages to get to what they are looking for so a value of perhaps 6 to 12 is a happy medium.

Handling charge

The value specified here will be added to the order total to cover handling costs. It is possible to add a per payment provider handling charge, a handling charge as a percentage of the order total and add tax to the handling.
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Shipping type

Here is where you can specify the shipping method you want to employ on your store. more details more details

Shipping type (Domestic / International)

It is possible to use a different shipping method on domestic and international orders. If you are using the same method for both then leave as is, if you want to select an alternative then choose from one of the methods in the drop down list.

Pack products

Selecting Pack products together will add all the product weights together and take the shipping cost on this total. Pack products separately will take the shipping cost for each item and then add these together.

USPS username

If you are using USPS shipping on your store then after registering for a user name with USPS you would enter it here. more details more details

Retailer ID

This is only required if you are using Canada Post as the shipping method. more details more details

Zip

This is the zip (postal) code of where you are shipping from. Only one zip code can be used in the process of calculating shipping costs.

Shipping weights / Dimensions

This is where you can choose between the metric and imperial systems. Do note that some shipping carriers may restrict the available shipping units and some may vary by country of origin. If you specify units for dimensions you will have to enter dimensions for all products. But most of the time it will make no difference to shipping.

Consider item unavailable for

If you want to use the Stock Management feature then it can be turned on here by selecting the time period that a product is considered out of stock once the last item has been placed in somebody's cart. more details more details

Number of languages

If you are going to run more than one language off the same database then this is where you specify the number, maximum of three. more details more details

Language settings

This is also used with the multiple language settings and here you can choose which fields you want to appear in your alternative languages. more details more details

Delete after

Set the number of days you would like uncompleted orders to be deleted from your database. You will need to hit the Purge Deleted button in the orders admin page to completely get rid of all deleted orders from your database.

Delete CC details

Set the number of days that credit card details are stored in your database when using the Capture Card method. We strongly recommend setting this to a workable minimum to minimize the risks of storing sensitive data on your server.

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These settings shouldn't be necessary and will only be used if suggested by our support team.


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