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The Advanced Settings & Configuration section lets you manage additional system settings. These settings provide flexible system configuration options for your needs.
Admin session duration
Use this setting to define the admin session duration, in hours. The following choices are available: 1, 2, 4, 6, 12, 24, or 48 hours. For example, if you’ve set 1 hour, then after an hour expires without any activity in the Admin Area, then you will have to log in to the Admin Area again (and enter your password).
Checkout Process Settings
Specify the following setting:
Do not show the State text field if the selected country has none
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If the country selected has no states defined for it, the customer is offered to enter the state name in the provided text field. Use this option to disable showing a text field in this scenario.
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Coupons and Promo Codes Settings
Specify the following setting:
Display the coupon and promo code entry dialog when there are no active coupons or promo codes in the system?
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YES – The coupon field will display at checkout even if there are no active coupons.
NO – If there are no active coupons, then the coupon field will not display at checkout.
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Customer Account Settings
Customer Account Settings configure settings related to the customer account in the storefront.
On this page you can define the following settings:
Customer session duration
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Configures customer session duration in the storefront.
For example, suppose this setting is set to 30 days (1 month). The following options are possible:
| • | The customer selected the Remember me checkbox in the log-in form (requires that the Enable 'Remember me' feature setting be set to YES by a shopping cart system administrator). This means that if the customer did not Sign Out of their account, then they can to log in automatically within 30 days after the last login. |
| • | The customer did NOT select the Remember me checkbox in the log-in form (requires that the Enable 'Remember me' feature setting be set to YES by a shopping cart administrator). In this case, after closing the browser the customer will have to log in by entering their username and password next time they access the store. |
| • | A shopping cart system administrator set the Enable 'Remember me' feature setting to NO. In this case, after closing the browser the customer will have to log in by entering their username and password to access the store next time. |
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Enable 'Remember me' feature
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If the Enable 'Remember me' feature is set to Yes, then the customer will be presented with a form for selecting to remember their session and automatically log them in to their customer account without entering a username and password. The session duration is defined by the Customer session duration setting.
If the Enable 'Remember me' feature is set to NO, then the form for remembering the customer session will not appear. After closing their browser, the customer will have to enter their username and password next time they access the store.
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File Upload Settings for Product Options
This page allows you to define the types of uploadable files if the product option type is set as File Upload. If a file type is not listed, it will be impossible to upload it for security reasons.
Order Statuses for Reports
On this page you can select which order statuses and payment statuses will be taken into account when generating reports and processing statistics. The available settings are described on the picture below
Quantity Discount Settings
Specify the following setting:
Apply Quantity Discount to all products regardless of options selected?
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If set to Yes, Quantity Discount will apply to all products in the cart regardless of its product options.
If set to No, Quantity Discount will apply to specific groups of products based on their product options.
Example:
The cart contains the following items with different product options:
| o | T-Shirt, Qty=2, Option: Red. |
| o | T-Shirt, Qty=3, Option: Green. |
If this setting is set to YES, then Quantity Discount will apply to five (2+3) T-Shirt items – the Red and Green items will be counted together.
If this setting is set to NO, then Quantity Discount will apply separately for each type of T-Shirt item, that is, once for "T-Shirt, Qty=2, Option: Red" and once for "T-Shirt, Qty=3, Option: Green."
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Reports and Statistics
This page lets you configure additional settings for generating reports and calculating statistics.
Specify the following settings:
Export to Excel file format
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Any report can be exported to Excel, however, there are several ways to do that. They include generating a binary Excel file, generating an HTML table, or creating a CSV file. Select the method you prefer.
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First day of the week
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The day the week starts with (Sunday or Monday).
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Number of scanned/viewed pages shown in tooltip menu.
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The Recent Visitors and Crawler Visits reports have a Click Path field which shows the number of human-visited or crawler-scanned pages. If you hover the mouse over this number, a tooltip will appear to show a list of the visited pages. This setting lets you define the size of the list – the number of pages shown in the tooltip.
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Product Info Page
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If set to YES, collects product viewing statistics if the product was displayed on the Product Info page.
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Product List Page
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If set to YES, collects product viewing statistics for each product if the list of products was displayed on the Product List page.
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Product Sales Statistics
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If set to YES, collects product sales statistics based on quantities sold.
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Session duration (Visits)
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Determines the customer storefront session duration.
If the customer is inactive for the specified amount of time, their next visit will generate a new statistics entry.
Suppose the parameter is set to 1 hour. If a visitor leaves your online store and comes back within 50 minutes, this will be considered as 1 visit. If the visitor comes back in 1 hour and 2 minutes, that will count as a second visit.
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Shopping cart: occurrences of product addition/deletion
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If set to YES, collects statistics of product additions to cart/product deletions from cart, without tracking the quantity of product added/deleted.
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Shopping cart: quantity of product added/deleted
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If set to YES, collects statistics of product additions to cart/product deletions from cart based on quantity of product added/deleted. Also tracks when the product quantity changes in the cart.
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Store block debug info
This allows displaying debug information for developers.
Specify the following settings:
Display store block debug info
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If set to Enabled, store block debug info will contain the generation block time and the numbers of SQL queries executed.
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Where store block debug info should be displayed.
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Specifies the zone where store block debug info should be displayed (Storefront, Admin Area, All Areas).
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System Log Settings
On this page you can define the system events that will be included in event logs. System logs can be used to track down error events caused by incorrect system configuration.
Tax Settings
The Tax Settings page provides additional ways to configure taxes according to the tax system of your jurisdiction.
Allow full tax exemption
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If this is set to Yes, the customer will be able to use full tax exemption during checkout (which means that all taxes, including taxes built into product prices, will be calculated as null).
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Display product prices including taxes
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Display product prices including taxes in Product List, Product Info, Shopping Cart, and Checkout pages of storefront.
NOTE: This option only affects taxes included in the product prices.
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