Store Administration


Store Preferences

This page is used to change your preferences as to how certain areas of the store operate. CAUTION: Please be very careful when making changes to this section. Be sure to completely review the online help to make certain you understand how changing any of the preferences below will affect the operation of your store. The factory defaults are listed first.

Change Preferences

Shipping Notification Email:

No
Yes

Shipping Email Format:

Send as Plain Text
Send as HTML Email

Shipping Email Title:

Shipping Email Text:

We thought 
you'd like to know that we shipped your items today, and that this completes your 
order. Thank you for shopping at <a href="http:www.yourstorename.com">www.yourstorename.com</a>, 
and we hope to see you again soon. Shipping Method: {{SHIPPING_METHOD}} 
Shipping Cost: {{SHIPPING_COST}} Tracking Number: {{TRACKING_NUMBER}} 
Order 
Date/Time: {{ORDER_DATE_AND_TIME}} Order Number: {{ORDER_NUMBER}} 
Reference Number: {{REFERENCE_NUMBER}} SHIP TO INFORMATION 
========================================= {{FIRST_NAME}} {{LAST_NAME}} 
{{COMMA}} {{TITLE}} {{COMPANY}} {{ADDRESS_LINE_1}} 
{{ADDRESS_LINE_2}} {{CITY}}{{COMMA}} {{STATE}} {{ZIP_POSTAL_CODE}} 
{{PROVINCE}} {{COUNTRY}} Day Phone: {{DAY_PHONE}} 
Night Phone: {{NIGHT_PHONE}} Email: {{EMAIL_ADDRESS}} 
{{COMMENTS}} 
{{TAX_ID_NUMBER_INFO}} 
{{REMEMBER_MY_INFO}} {{CUSTOM_INPUT_FIELDS}} 
ITEMS 
ORDERED ========================================= {{ITEMS_ORDERED}} 
========================================= 
Subtotal: {{SUBTOTAL}} {{COUPON_INFO}} {{PURCHASE_DISCOUNT_INFO}} 
Shipping: {{SHIPPING_COST}} - {{SHIPPING_METHOD}} {{SALES_TAX_INFO}} 
ORDER 
TOTAL: {{ORDER_TOTAL}} PAYMENT METHOD ========================================= 
{{PAYMENT_METHOD}} {{PAYMENT_METHOD_NOTES}}

Send Copy To:

Send Test Email To:

When active, this feature automatically sends the customer a "Shipping Notification Email" when an order's status is changed to "SHIPPED". If you want to activate this feature, click the YES option in the first field shown above and then complete the rest of the fields associated with it.

The next three fields control the format, title, and the text of the email. IMPORTANT: For detailed information regarding using these fields, please click the Help button at the top of this page.

If you want to receive a copy of each email that is sent to your customers, then enter your email address in the the "Send Copy To" address. Leave this field blank if you don't want a copy sent to you.

The "Send Test Email To" field is used to test this feature. Enter your email address to have a sample Shipping Notification Email sent to you.

Auto-Resize Thumbnails

Yes
No

Auto-Resize Width:
Auto-Resize Height:

When the store displays a list of products to a customer, it normally displays small images (called thumbnails) for each product. The store can be configured to automatically adjust all thumbnails to be the same size or use each image's natural size. When auto-resize is active, the store will use the pixel width and height values specified above (40 is recommended for both).

Thumbnail Link Action

Links to Full Size Image for Product
Links to Product Detail Information Page

This option allows you to control whether thumbnails link to a generic page that shows each product's full size image, or links to each product's detail information page. This field is required.

Credit Card Format:

With Dashes
Without Dashes

This controls whether or not "dashes" are displayed within credit card numbers when viewing new and processed orders from the Main Menu.

Credit Card Checksum:

Yes
No

This controls whether or not the store performs checksum validation on credit card numbers entered by customers during checkout. This setting should always be YES unless you are accepting foreign credit cards (UK Switch Cards) that dont use the standard Visa, Master Card, or American Express numbering format.

Admin Time-Out:

15 Minutes
20 Minutes
30 Minutes
45 Minutes
60 Minutes

This allows you to adjust the security time-out value used within the store's administration system.

No Photo Available:

Yes
No

This controls whether or not the store displays the replacement "No Photo Available" image when a customer displays a product page that does not have a photo associated with it.

Strikeout Normal Price:

No
Yes

This controls whether or not the store "strikes out" a product's "normal price" when it's currently on sale.

Show On Sale Savings:

No
Yes

This controls whether or not the store displays the amount of savings the customer will receive when displaying a product that is currently on sale.

Show Out-of-Stock Products:

Yes
No

This controls whether or not the store displays products that are currently "out-of-stock" (and which do not allow backordering).

Show Product Weight:

Yes
No

This controls whether or not the store displays the weight for the product on the "Add to Cart" page.

Add to Cart Action:

Show View Cart Page
Reshow Product Page

This option allows you to control whether the VIEW CART page is displayed or the PRODUCT DETAIL INFORMATION page is shown to the customer after a product's ADD TO CART button is pressed. This field is required.

Default Search Type:

OR Search (match any of the words)
AND Search (match all of the words)
QUOTED Search (match exact phrase only)

This field controls what the default search type is when the search words do NOT have any quotes around them. For most stores, it's recommended you set the default search type to be an "AND Search".

NOTE: please read the online help for more information regarding how to use this feature properly.

Search Meta Tags:

Yes
No

This field controls whether or not the store includes each product's meta tags when performing a search. Most stores will want to include meta tags in product searches and therefore, the default setting for this flag is "Yes".

If your meta tags are designed in such a way that they are causing the store to generate invalid search results, then you need to set this flag to "No".

Static Index Page:

No
Yes

This field controls whether or not the store automatically creates a "static" copy of the store's Welcome Page in a file called index.html. The automatic copy will be done each time the store displays the Welcome Page via the Qstote.cgi program.

The default setting is "NO" and is recommended for most stores.

IMPORTANT - please read the online help before making any changes to this setting!

Override Page Titles:

No
Yes

This field controls whether or not the store automatically replaces the default page titles (e.g. the store's name) with the name of the department, category, sub-category, or product currently being displayed to the customer. The default setting is "NO".

SMTP Server Type:

Sendmail
Exim
Qmail
Other

This tells the store what type of outgoing mail (SMTP) program is actually running on the web server.

CAUTION - please read the online help before making any changes to this setting!

Web Page Tracking:

No
Yes

This controls whether or not the store logs customer web page display activity into a "log file".

CAUTION - please read the online help before making any changes to this setting!

Auto-Archiving:

No
Yes

This controls whether or not the store performs automatic data archiving of data files.

CAUTION - please read the online help before making any changes to this setting!

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