User Guide
Enable Shop. Choose to make your shop active after you have
made changes. Use it when you need to performe a maintenance on
your shop. Note that the webservice will still be active, and thus
your data will still be available this way.
Maintenance IP. The maintenance IP allows people to access the
store even if it is disabled. If you want to add more IP addresses,
separate them with commas ",". To find out your IP address, go to
http://www.myip.dk/
Enable SSL. Providing a SSL connection to your shop is a great way
to reassure your customers about the safety of their data
(authentication, credit card, etc.) on your shop. If your hosting
provider does support SSL, make sure to activate PrestaShop's SSL
support, by clicking on the link. This will reveal a selector. Choose
"Yes".
Check IP on the cookie. An added security measure, you can tell
PrestaShop to check that the user does come from the IP stored in
his cookie.
Increase Front Office security. This adds a handful of tokens on
your shop, in order to improve its security.
Back Office help boxes. Some of the back-office fields have a
helpful legend that pops under them, in order for your to better
understand their usage. You can disable them if you feel they are
unnecessary.
Order process type. By default, the customer has to validate 5
successive steps in order to complete his order checkout. You can
choose to have it all done in one page. Know that that page will be
very wordy, so it might scare users away... but does have its
success in some countries.
Enable guest checkout. Allow orders to be made by non-
registered users.
Terms of service. With this option, your customers have to accept
your terms of service to complete an order.
Conditions of use CMS page. Your shop's condition of use are to
be stored in a static page (called "CMS page"). You should indicate
which, so that PrestaShop can point to it correctly.
Offer gift-wrapping. Suggest gift-wrapping to customer and
possibility of leaving a message. Always a nice idea for people who
want to buy gifts.
Gift-wrapping price. Set the price of your gift-wrapping service.
Gift-wrapping tax. If needed, indicate which tax the gift-wrapping
is tied to.
Attachment maximum size. Enables you to not overcharge your
servers with big files.
Offer recycled packaging. If you can offer, it may put your shop
into a good light.
Cart re-display at login. If the customer had a cart that wasn't
checked-out, display it once he logs in.