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CubeCart Version 3 Documentation - General Settings

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General Settings


Meta Data




Browser Title This appears in the browsers title bar.
Meta Description This text appears in the page description meta tags. Enter a short sentence in here about the site.
Meta Keywords This text appears in the page keyword meta tags. Enter keywords seperated by a coma.
Store/Company Name The name of the store is used throughout the store, including the emails.
Store Address Enter the address of the store. Used in payment emails, mail order forms, email receipts etc.
Country The country of the store owner.
County/State/Zone Additional address information.

Directories and Folders




Root SECURE Public HTML Folder to store The local file path to the secure pages of the store, which starts at the hosting server root directory. Include the trailing slash. If your store is not in a subfolder (or subdirectory), ie in the root of the domain, just enter a slash ( '/' ).
Absolute SECURE URL to store The URL to the secure pages as used in the browser address bar, for example https://secure.domain.com/store (excluding the trailing slash).
Enable SSL If you are using SSL for the store, and have the above boxes completed correctly select 'Yes'. If you are not, leave as 'No'.

Digital Downloads




Digital Downloads This is the duration that digital product links are available for use by the customer, entered in seconds.
Download Attempts The number of attempts a customer can make at downloading a digital product. Each click on the download link is counted.

Styles and Misc




Default Language The primary language for the store. If you change the language setting, and save the configuration you will also need to refresh the page for the change in language to take effect.
Store Skin Currently selected skin. New skins added to the 'skins' directory will display in this list.
Show Latest Products on homepage? Displays the products last added to the store on the front page. The product IDs are listed in descending order.
Number of latest products to show The number of products to show in the latest products list.
No Categories Per Row
Directory Symbol The symbol used in the location (page trail / breadcrumb) on the site.
No Products per Page The number of products to list in the category view of the store. Products over the count will be listed on seperate paginated pages.
Length of product precis (Chars) The setting used for limiting the length of text displayed in product descriptions on the category view pages, ie the length of the sentence ending in '...'. The number is the count of letters and spaces in the text.
No. Items in Sale Items Box The number of products listed in the side box.
No. Items in Popular Items Box The number of products listed in the side box.




Email Name The display name used for emails being sent from the store.
Email Address The source email address used for store emails.
Mail Sending Method The options are 'mail()' and 'SMTP'. The default is 'mail()' which uses the hosting servers sendmail system. 'SMTP' will require authentication information, as listed below.
SMTP Host If using an SMTP email a server, enter the address of the server to send email through.
SMTP Port Port used to connect to the SMTP server. The default is 25.
Use Authentication? Does the SMTP server require a username and password to send email?
SMTP Username Username for connecting to the SMTP server.
SMTP Password Password for connecting to the SMTP server.




Max Upload Filesize
(Under 2048Kb Recommended)
Maximum size of file that the upload script will allow.
Max Session Length
Enable Script/Bot Flood Control?

GD Settings




GD Version The version of GD you have installed. In most cases you will not need to know about GD.
Allow GIF Support (Please make sure this is enabled on your server)
Thumbnail Size The maximum size of the thumbnail images. This is the maximum for either dimension, horizontal or vertical.
Max Image Size The maximum size of the main product images. This is the maximum for either dimension, horizontal or vertical.
GD Image Quality
(60 - 80 recommended)
The quality of the resized images. Default is 80 and is perfect for more websites. A higher number (higher quality) means a larger file size, therefore longer to download time for visitors.

Stock Settings




Show stock level? Shows the stock level of products in the store.
Allow out of stock purchases? Allow products to be purchased when the stock level has reached zero.
Weight Unit Change the units from 'lb' to 'kg'.

Time and Date




Time Format The layout of the time when the time is displayed in the store. This can be in invoices and orders etc.
Time Offset For different time zones around the world, you can add an offset to ensure the correct time for your local area. The figure entered here must be in seconds. For example, an offset of 3600 for one hour (60 seconds x 60 minutes). You may need to add '+' or '-' before the offset if your store time does not change, ie '+3600' (without the quotes).
Date Format The layout of the date when the date is displayed in the store. This can be in invoices and orders etc.

Locale Settings




Default Currency The primary currency used in the store.
Include tax in prices? With this enabled you must add tax into the price of the goods and it is applied to all customers.
Sale Mode There are three options in this dialog: 'Percentage of all prices', 'Individual sale price per item' and 'Sale Mode Off'.
Sale Percent Off Percentage to be knocked off all prices in the store, when Sale Mode is set to 'Percentage of all prices'.
Allow dispatch to address other than invoice address? Enable products to be shipped to addressed other than the primary customer address.

Offline Settings




Turn store off? Turns of the store, preventing further purchases from being made.
Allow administrators
to view store off line?
(Requires admin session)
When the store is offline, administrators logged into the store will be able to browse the front end of the store.
Off line message The message that will be displayed for vistors to the store while it is offline.


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