X-Cart:General Settings

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You can adjust the overall configuration of your store using the 'General settings' section of X-Cart Admin area ( Settings menu->General settings).

All the configuration settings in this section are divided into subsections. You can use the 'General settings' section menu to switch between the different subsections.

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The links in the upper portion of the 'General settings' section menu provide access to the settings which allow you to control X-Cart's general functionality. The links in the lower portion of the 'General settings' section menu provide access to settings which allow you to control options of specific X-Cart modules.

Here's a list of subsections available via the 'General settings' section menu:

  • Appearance Options allows you to adjust preferences that affect the overall appearance of your store.
  • 3D-Secure Transaction options allows you to enable Cardinal Centinel® payment authentication platform support in your store.
  • Company options allows you to provide your company details and contact information (name, address, phone/fax numbers, email addresses, etc). Your company name, address and phone/fax numbers will be displayed on the storefront and included into customer email notifications. Email addresses of specific departments of your store will be used by X-Cart to send administrator and provider notifications. Company address will be used in real-time shipping rate calculations.
  • Contact us form options allows you to configure the 'Contact us' form. You can define, which of the 'Contact us' form fields should be active (visible to customers), and completion of which fields should be required (mandatory). If necessary, you can also add your own (custom) fields to the 'Contact us' form.
  • Email options allows you to define options that affect sending of email notifications and newsletters.
  • Email notifications options allows you to define, which of the available email notifications should be sent to the customers, administrator(s), provider(s), users department and orders department of your store.
  • General options allows you to adjust the general configuration of your store.
  • Logging options allows you to define what kind of logs you wish to be kept in your store.
  • Product search options allows you to define, which fields should be included into the Product search form in the Customer area, and set default values for these fields.
  • Security options allows you to adjust options that affect your store security (options that affect encryption methods used in your store, HTTPS options, etc).
  • SEO options allows you to adjust options that can improve your site's ranking with search engines.
  • Shipping options allows you to adjust options that affect the calculation of shipping rates in your store.
  • User Profiles options allows you to configure your store's user profile forms. You can define which of the user profile fields should be active (included into the user profile forms), and completion of which fields should be required (mandatory). If necessary, you can also add your own (custom) fields for use in user profiles.

Information on specific subsections of the 'General settings/Modules options' section comes with descriptions of specific X-Cart modules.

Note: Links to the settings of X-Cart modules in the 'General settings/Modules options' section are only visible when the respective modules are enabled.