X-Cart:Company Options

The 'General settings/Company options' page allows you to provide your company details and contact information.

Company details

Company name: The name of your store. The value entered into this field replaces the dummy text 'Your Company Name' everywhere in your store: in the 'Shop name' element of the page title in all your store's pages; in the breadcrumb navigation bar (location.tpl), etc. It also appears as the name of your company in order invoices.

Note: If you wish, you can specify a different company name for use as the store site title. All you need to do is provide a value for the lbl_site_title variable in the Administration menu->Languages section. When defined, the value of the lbl_site_title variable is used on the main site page in the phrase "Welcome to Your Company Name", whereas the value of the 'Company name' field appears on other pages and in your store's invoices.

Company website: The address (URL) of your company website. The value of this field is included into the signature in email notifications.

Year when the store started its operation: The time since when your company is in business. The value of this field is used as the initial year in all the drop-down boxes used for year selection; for example, in the field for selecting the time period when searching for users or orders, in the field for specifying the validity period for a discount coupon, etc.

Company contacts

Company phone: The phone number which your customers should use to contact your company. The value of this field is displayed in the site header in the Customer area and is included into the signature in email notifications.

Company phone 2: The alternative phone number. The value of this field is displayed in the site header in the Customer area.

Company fax: The company fax number. The value of this field is included into the signature in email notifications.

Company location address

The address specified in this section is used for real-time shipping calculation:

- In X-Cart GOLD, this address is used as the origin address for all orders.

- In X-Cart PRO, this address is used a) as the origin address for the orders shipped from providers that do not have a seller address specified in their user profile; b) as the default origin address when testing the store's ability to receive real-time shipping rates.

Company address: The street address of your company.

Company city: The city where your company is located.

Company state: The state where your company is located.

Company zip/postal code: The zip/postal code of the area where your company is located.

Company country: The country where your company is located.

Company emails

X-Cart can track different types of events that occur in your online store and send notifications about these events to the members of your store staff. The 'Company emails' section allows you to specify the email addresses to which the notifications will be sent.

By default, all the fields in this section contain the email address that was specified during the X-Cart installation. And all the notifications are sent to this address. If the store staff responsible for processing the notifications consists of more than one person who have separate email addresses, or you simply want to use different email addresses for different types of notifications, you need to readjust the settings in this section.

X-Cart allows you to specify 4 company email addresses:

Site administrator email address: for notifications about incorrect and potentially unsafe GET and POST requests to the site, SQL and login errors, notifications sent by the built-in Maintenance Agent.

Users department email address: for notifications about newly created, modified and deleted user profiles.

Orders department email address: for notifications about placed orders and changed order statuses, product quantity warnings etc.

Help/Support department email address: for messages submitted through the Contact Us form.

The exact set of notifications that you will receive at the company email addresses can be readjusted in the 'General settings/Email notifications options' section of the Admin area. For details, study section 'Email Notifications Options' of this manual.