HikaShop - Configuration

Description
Toolbar
Main
- Main
- Taxes
- Product
- Cart
- Order
- Files
- Images
- Emails
Checkout
Display
Features
Advanced
- Advanced settings
- Legacy
Languages
Access level
Cron
demo.hikashop.com General Configuration

Description

This screen ("Hikashop->System->Configuration") enables you to configure HikaShop.
During the install process, HikaShop will be automatically configured using your Joomla Configuration but you can modify it at any time.
You will also find a tool to easily publish/unpublish the HikaShop plugins and add/modify the HikaShop languages files.

Toolbar

Check database: That tool will check the HikaShop database structure in order to fix potential issues.
It will also fix content problems like products without categories, Joomla tags, etc.
Save: Save the configuration and return to the dashboard screen.
Apply: Apply the modifications to the configuration and stay on the same screen.
Cancel: Return to the previous screen without saving the modifications.
Help: This button enables you to turn ON/OFF the help section, this screen will appear or disappear.

Main

Version: The build number of your HikaShop. That number is actually the date and hour or when the package of HikaShop you installed has been generated on our end.
Put the store offline: That option disable the whole store on the front end.
Your shop address: You need to write here your shop real address. This address will be displayed on the invoices that you or your customers will be able to print.
Main currency: You can set you main currency here. By default the prices will be displayed in that currency and payments will be possible in that currency.
You can set additional currencies via the currencies management screen.

Taxes

A small note about taxes calculation:
Taxes calculation can become quite complex as their are a lot of parameters to take into account.
We highly recommend you to seek advice to your local tax office in order to know the specifics of taxes in your state/country.
As you might know, each zone of the world has a set of tax rules that all businesses operating in its zone need to follow.
Taxes will be adapted based on the product type and where the customer is living.
So, if your company is based only in France, you will have to input the tax rules of the french administration which apply to you.
You will be able to lower the amount of rules by restraining your sales to a part of the world (for example, you could sell only to french customers), the type of products (if you don't sell alcohol, you don't have to enter tax rules specific to alcohol sale), the type of the customer (companies will have to pay different taxes than individuals so you could sell only to individuals).

Main tax zone: You need to select your zone here. Some countries might have different taxes on a per-state basis so you will want to specify here your state rather than your country.
That parameter will be used to calculate taxes. Also, before a customer enters his address, the system will also use this zone as the customer zone to calculate taxes.
Type of address used for tax: Depending on where you live your tax office will want you to use either the billing address or the shipping address for tax calculation. You should seek advice at your local tax office to know out to set this option.
Detailed tax display: Show detailed all the different taxes present in the cart, the orders and the invoices.
Show taxed price: This is a global option which allow you to display the prices with tax, without tax or with and without tax.
VAT number check: You can select here if you want to check the VAT number.
This option should be used if your shop is located in Europe where taxes might be different if the buyer is a company with a VAT number or not.
You can set it to check that it conforms to the format specifications defined by each European country or, on top of that, validate the VAT number against the European VAT checking web service (Only available if you have the PHP SOAP extension installed on your PHP. If not, an error message will be displayed to the user).
Note that by default the VAT number field is unpublished. You can activate it in the fields management screen.
There, you will also be able to choose whether the VAT number should be required or not (It could happen that you want to make the field required, and check it against the online server to be sure that all your customers are European companies with a valid VAT number).
Round prices during calculations: If this option is activated, the prices will be rounded during the order calculation, so if your prices have no-display decimals, the unit price will be rounded before any other calculation.
Floating tax prices: If this option is activated, the prices entered in each product will be considered as the prices with taxes and HikaShop will calculate the taxes and the prices without taxes out of these based on your tax rules, allowing you to always display the same price with taxes to the customers, regardless of whether taxes apply to them or which tax rate apply to them.
Apply discounts: Depending on where you live your tax office will want you to apply discounts before or after tax calculation. You should seek advice at your local tax office to know out to set this option.
Apply coupons: Depending on where you live your tax office will want you to apply coupons before or after tax calculation. You should seek advice at your local tax office to know out to set this option.

Product

Characteristics values ordering: You can choose here whether to sort the characteristics values alphabetically or by characteristic id (in the order you added them to the characteristics).
Update the product stock on confirmed status: The product stock will be decremented only when the order status changes from created to one of the statuses selected in the "invoice order statuses" option, and not when the order is created.
Display "add to cart" button for free products: By default, the "add to cart" button is only displayed if the product has a price unless that option is turned on.
Display out of stock products: You can choose to display or not products when their stock reach 0.
Make product association in both ways: That option will create an association between two products when you set a "product related".
So the product you're editing will also be added as a related product to his related products.
Group options with products: When that option is activated, the options will be displayed together with the main product in the cart while when the option is deactivated, each option will be considered as a separate product in the cart.

Cart

Clean cart when order is: With that option, you can choose to remove the current cart of the user directly when the order is created at the end of the checkout, or only when the order is successful.
In that second case, when the user comes back from a payment gateway, he can continue his order.
Maximum number of items in the cart<: You can define here a maximum number of items for the cart. Above that, products won't be added to the cart.
This option is only available in commercial versions of HikaShop.
URL where to redirect when the cart is empty: When the customer try to access the checkout and their cart is empty, they are redirected to an HikaShop product listing.
You can put here an URL to redirect the customers to a specific page.
In all cases, they will get a "the cart is empty" notice.
Allow users to print their cart: When that option is activated, users will be able to print their cart on the checkout via a print icon.
Log IP address: You can deactivate this option if you don't want to log the IP address of the users in the carts.

Note that to configure the behavior of HikaShop once the customer clicks on an "add to cart" button (redirect to the checkout or not, delays, notification display mode), you can go in the Joomla plugins manager and edit the settings of the HikaShop cart notification plugin.

Order

Order number format: This option enables you to set the format of order numbers. It is only available in commercial versions of HikaShop.
By default, the order number uses letters and numbers interleaved together, this is represented here with the tag {automatic_code}.
If you want to use the order number directly, you can use the tag {id}. In the tag id, you can specify the number of numbers with the size attribute. For example, {id size="5"} will result in 00123 for the order with the id 123.
You can also use the date tag in order to insert date information. For example, {date format="m/y"} will result in 02/11 for an order made in February 2011.
You can combine them to generate pretty advanced order numbers like the format RE-{id size="5"}/{date format="m/y"} used for German accounting which will result in RE-00123/02/11 for the order 123 made on February 2011.
If you need more formatting options for the date you can look at the PHP documentation: http://php.net/manual/fr/function.date.php
Note that the order number (and the order id) is generated when the order is created. So after you change the format here, only new orders will get their order number in the new format.
Invoice number format: Same as the order but for the invoice (It is only available in commercial versions of HikaShop).
Note however that if you use the {id} tag, you will get the order invoice id, nor the order id. If you want to get the order id as your invoice number, you'll want to use the {order_id} tag instead.
Note that the invoice number (and the invoice id) is generated when the order status is changed to confirmed (based on the settings in the menu System>Order statuses). So after you change the format here, only new confirmed orders will get their invoice number in the new format.
Invoice reset frequency: Allow you to set a reset frequency of the invoice id. It can be disabled, set to one month or one year.
This option is only available in commercial versions of HikaShop.
Payment of orders not paid immediately: You can activate the payment of orders not paid via the listing of the orders of the user.
He will have an additional button below the status of the order. Upon clicking on it, he will be redirected to the payment gateway in order to pay for the order.
This option is available in all commercial versions of HikaShop.
Allow users to print invoices on the front end: If you want to let your users print invoices of their orders from their HikaShop user account.
This option is removed since HikaShop 4.1.0. Now, you can configure the statuses for which you want to display the "print invoice" button on the frontend via the System>Order statuses menu.
Allow customer to reorder: Add a button in the customer order listing to allow them to reorder, create a new order with the exact same content.
This option is available in all commercial versions of HikaShop.
Log IP address: If you don't want to log the IP address of the customer with their order, you can turn off that option.
Log IP addresses in the history of the orders: If you don't want to log the IP address of the current user when an operation is made on an order int he history area, you can turn off that option.

Before HikaShop 3.0, there were some settings which are now directly available in the HikaShop order status management, in the menu System>Order statuses:

Default order status: You can set here the order status which will be assigned to a new order.
Unpaid order statuses: If you are using the setting to allow customer to pay order not paid immediately, that setting will be used to determine the order statuses which make an order "not paid".
Payment confirmed order status: You can set here the order status which will be assigned to an order when a payment notification is received.
Invoice order statuses: You can set here the order status which will generate the invoice number.
If "created" is listed, you will have the same invoice number than the order number.
That setting is also used by plugins or other feature in order to know when an order is considered as "confirmed", while the "confirmed order status" only target one status, this one can have several.
Cancelled order statuses: When an order has its status changed to one of those statuses, the quantities of products in it are restored.
Cancellable orders statuses: If you enter order statuses in that field, for all the orders with one of these statuses, a "cancel" button will be displayed on the orders listing of your customers on the front end.
That will enable them to cancel their orders and you will be notified by email when that happens.
Please note that payments won't be cancelled by that process so you will have to decide what to do.
Payment capture order status: Some payment methods are compatible with the "Authorize / Capture" system which allow to capture the payment once the order change to one status listed here.
Valid order statuses for download: You can list the order statuses which will allow the customer to download the files for the products of the order.

Files

Enable customer download area: You can activate that setting to add a button in the HikaShop user panel and provide a specific interface where the customer can see the list of his available downloads.
This option is available in all commercial versions of HikaShop.
Allowed files: List of allowed file extensions for the emails attachments and products files.
Upload secure folder: Folder in which the products files will be uploaded to.
Please make sure this folder is writable otherwise HikaShop won't be able to upload your files in it.
We recommend to put this folder outside your joomla installation folder.
That way, if your website is hacked, you have more chances that the products files won't be changed.
By default the folder is inside the Joomla installation folder but protected with an .htaccess to prevent access via the web but only possible access will be via FTP, SSH or PHP.
Upload folder: Folder in which the attachments and images will be uploaded to.
Please make sure this folder is writable otherwise HikaShop won't be able to upload your files in it. This folder needs to be inside your joomla installation folder.
Payment log file: A file where the payment notifications will be recorded.
That could be useful in case of a bug or if the payment plugin doesn't not notify you by email.
Download time limit: You can limit here the time of availability for downloads after the order was made. Usually, this should be quite big.
You can set 0 for unlimited download time.
Download number limit: You can limit here the number of downloads of a product file.
You can set 0 for unlimited download.
Purchased file download on product page: If you activate that option, the download link of purchased files will be provided to the users on the product page on top of having it in the notification emails, the order details page and the download area.
CSV separator: You can select here whether to separate columns by a comma or a semicolon in the CSVs you can export from HikaShop.
CSV decimal separator: You can select here what character will be used as decimal separator when HikaShop is generating CSV files.

Images

Allowed images: List of allowed file extensions for the images.
Default image: You can set a default image which will be used for your products or category with no image.
Thumbnail: You can allow the generation of thumbnails automatically when the images are above the limits below. Thumbnails will be generated automatically. You need the GD extension for PHP in order to resize images.
If it is not installed a message will be displayed in the back end when it tries to resize an image.
If you have it, either install GD or ask your hosting company to do so, or turn this feature off.
Thumbnail (width x height): When you change the width and/or height of thumbnails, they won't be resized automatically as it would be too resources intensive.
Their width and height will be fixed in the img tag so that they appear at the good size.
However, that means that they could get quite blurry. In such cases, you can go the the folder media/com_hikashop/upload/thumbnail via FTP and delete all the files there.
The system will recreate the thumbnails on the fly with the new size when they need to be displayed.
Also, by default, these values will be used on listings of categories and products AND on the product page.
However, for each hikashop menu/module you created, you can define a specific image size by editing them via the Joomla menus/modules Manager.
Product page image (width x height): You can specify the max size of the main image displayed in the product page.
Force image size: That setting will force the image size during the generation of thumbnails.
Instead of resizing the image and keeping his proportion, the thumbnail will have the exact dimension specified in the previous setting.
Image scale mode: When the image size is forced, that setting specify how the scale is made.
By keeping the ratio, the image will have blank borders. By cropping the image, some part of the image will not be visible in the thumbnail.
Image resize during upload (width x height): You can specify a maximum width and a maximum height for images attached to products.
If the images appears to be bigger, they will be resized automatically during the upload process. If you do not want to resize images, leave these fields blank.
These options only apply to the "zoomed" image of products on the product page and to the current category image on category/product listings.
Note that if you change these values, the images you already uploaded in your products/categories won't be resized as this process is done at the moment you upload them.
Stripes color: If the images you upload have a ratio different than the ratio of the thumbnails you configure AND that you have the "force images size" setting activated AND you have the "Image scale mode" option set to "Keep ratio", stripes (top and bottom, or left and right) will be added to the generated thumbnails to be able to produce the ratio you want. By default these stripes will be white. Here you can select another color if your background is not white.
Keep images after delete: If that option is turned off, then the image file in the upload folder won't be deleted when you remove the file from a product / category or if you delete the product / category.
Otherwise, the image file will be deleted if no other product / category uses it.
Watermark on images: You can upload here a watermark image which will be added to all the product images you upload on the product edition page.
This option is only available in the Business version of HikaShop.
Watermark opacity: Here, you can define the opacity of the watermark.
This option is only available in the Business version of HikaShop.

Emails

From Name: Default "From Name"used in all your emails.
You can modify this property for each email you write.
From Address: Default E-mail address used as "from" in all your emails.
You can modify this property for each email you write.
Reply-to Name: Default "Reply To Name" used in all your emails.
You can modify this property for each email by editing the email via our email edition interface available in all our commercial versions.
Reply-to Address: Default E-mail address used as "reply-to" in all your emails.
So, if your receivers click on "reply-to" when they read your e-mail, their response will be sent to this e-mail address.
You can modify this property for each email by editing the email via our email edition interface available in all our commercial versions.
Bounce Address: Any automatic response will be sent to this e-mail address.
Be careful! Some servers restrict the use of this parameter to a local e-mail account, so make sure you can still send emails after editing this parameter.
This e-mail address will not be visible for your receivers.
If it doesn't work after filling it, leave it empty. If you are unsure, just leave it empty.
Payment notifications email address: When a payment notification is received from the payment plugins, you will receive an email to this address. Note that you can set several emails here separated by a comma.
Order creation notifications email address: When an order is created, you will receive an email to this address. Note that you can set several emails here separated by a comma, but you can also disable it by leaving it empty.
Add names: Some servers do not allow you to send emails with names in the headers.
This parameter enables you to turn that off so that you can still send emails.
Encoding Format: Encoding format used for all your emails. We recommend "base 64".
Charset: Charset used for all your emails. We recommend UTF-8 if you send english or international emails.
We recommend to use the charset used in your country if your business is local.
Word Wrapping: Some servers do not allow you to send emails with more than xx characters per line. This parameter enables you to set this limitation.
Embed Images: Should HikaShop embed your pictures inside the emails? If so, the send process will take more time but the recipient won't have to download the picture form your website in order to display it.
Note that email size is often limited on the receiving email server and thus if you turn on that option, it's possible that your emails get rejected by the recipient server.
That's why we recommend to keep that option turned off unless you know what you're doing.
Embed Attachments: Should HikaShop embed your attachments inside the emails? If not, HikaShop will add a list of attachments with a link to your website in order to download it.
If you disable this option, the send process will be much faster as HikaShop won't send the attachment but a simple link.
Note that email size is often limited on the receiving email server and thus if you turn on that option, it's possible that your emails get rejected by the recipient server.
That's why we recommend to keep that option turned off unless you know what you're doing.
Multiple Part: Should HikaShop send multiple part emails? If so, HikaShop will send the text and the html version in the email so that depending on the recipient email client, the appropriate version will be opened.

Checkout

Checkout workflow

This option is quite peculiar and really powerful. Thus we've written a tutorial specifically for it. You can read it here

Checkout

Force a menu on the checkout: You can set here a specific menu where your users will be redirected when displaying the checkout page. That allows you to display different modules/templates on the checkout than on the rest of the shop. If you don't set it, the user will keep all the modules and templates of the rest of the store when displaying the checkout page.
What we recommend is to create a menu item of the type "HikaShop Checkout" via the Joomla menu manager, and select it here. Or at least, select another HikaShop menu.
If the selected menu item is not for a type linked to the HikaShop component, it can create issues.
Force SSL on Checkout: This option will force HTTPS on the checkout pages. You need to have HTTPS configured and a valid SSL certificate before you can activate this option, otherwise the checkout will appear as broken and this option will be deactivated by the system. You will have to ask your hosting provider about how to setup HTTPS and obtain a valid certificate for your website.
Note that in recent years HTTPS is activated by default by hosting providers and in that case, it doesn't matter what you do with this option.
Continue shopping button's URL: If you specify a URL here, a "Continue shopping" button will be displayed on the checkout pages (except on the last step where you don't want it).
Show delete icons during checkout: Enables you to activate or deactivate the delete button on the cart view of the checkout. (removed since HikaShop 3.4.0)
Terms & Conditions: You can select here an article which will be displayed for the terms and conditions of your checkout.
Note that you also need to have the block "Terms" in your checkout workflow. (removed since HikaShop 3.4.0)
Terms & Conditions popup size: Size of the Terms and Conditions popup that will appear when you click on the Terms and Conditions link.
Note that this option will only appear once you selected an article in the Terms & Conditions option and that you saved the configuration. (removed since HikaShop 3.4.0)
Display checkout progress bar: You can choose to display a checkout progression bar during the checkout process on the front end. You can also have the possibility to display or not a step for the end step.
Show image: When that option is activated, the main image of your products will be displayed on the cart view of the checkout (removed since HikaShop 3.4.0)

Address & Payment

Force shipping regardless of weight: If you activate that option, the shipping methods selection and the shipping address views will be displayed on the checkout regardless of whether the products have a weight or not (you still need to have your shipping methods configured).
Address selector: This option defines the way the addresses can be selected/modified on the checkout.
We recommend here to use either the list or the dropdown list in order to avoid incompatibilities with popups and javascript libraries, and to be responsive. (removed since HikaShop 3.4.0)
Mini address format: That mini format is mainly used for the dropdown list selector in order to generate the text for each address in the dropdown.
The tags used here correspond to the column name of the address fields that you can find via the menu Display->Custom fields.
Address format: You can specify here the normal format HikaShop will use to display the addresses on invoices, on the checkout, on emails, etc.
The tags used here correspond to the column name of the address fields that you can find via the menu Display->Custom fields.
It is also possible to add custom PHP code and get the address data with such PHP:
<?php $address = $this->params->get('address'); ?>

Login & Registration

Login: You can activate/deactivate the login box on the left of the login view of the checkout with that option.
Display method for registration: By default, the login and registration forms display one next to the other.
That's the "All in one page" option.
If you choose the "Selector" mode, you will have on the left of the view a radio for each element (login, registration, guest checkout) that you activated and the element selected will display on the right side of the screen.
You'll notice that when you select the "Selector" mode, instead of having to choose between the registration and guest checkout in the "Registration" option, you'll then be able to choose both at the same time and it will be the customer which will be able to choose for himself what he wants to do.
Default registration view: When using the "Selector" for the registration display method, you can select which view will be the default one.
Registration: When this option is set to "guest" the fields name, username, password and password verification from the HikaShop registration form will be removed and no Joomla user account will be created for the user on the website.
When it is set to "simplified registration", those fields will also be removed but an account will be automatically created for the users and an email will be sent to him with his assigned username and password.
When it is set to "simplified registration with password", it will work like the "simplified registration" but with the user having to enter his password on the registration form
When this option is set to "registration", the users will have to register on the website during the checkout.
This option is available in all commercial versions of HikaShop. On the starter edition only the registration mode is possible.
Note that you can also turn off the user account activation with the "New User Account Activation" setting of the Joomla user manager.
Note also that if you set this setting to "guest" only, the registration form page of HikaShop, which you can access with a menu item of the type "HikaShop user registration", will display a guest form.
Finally, if you see the text "Registration not allowed", it means that the "Allow User Registration" setting of the Joomla user manager is deactivated.
Display email confirmation field: Ask the user to enter his email address twice. It's a control of the email address in order to lower the risks of a user making a typo in his email address. This option applies to the email input field for both the registration form AND the guest form when enabled.
Ask address on registration: When turned off, the system won't display the address fields in the user registration so it will be actually like a joomla registration form.
In that case, the address view of the checkout will automatically display the address form after the registration as it will detect that the user didn't fill yet any address.
User group on registration: If set to inherit, HikaShop will use the user group configured in the Joomla user manager settings screen for the user group of newly registered users registering from the HikaShop registration form.
If set to a user group, HikaShop will use that user group instead.
Finally, it's also possible to select a custom address field or a custom user field of the types radio button, simple dropdown, multiple dropdown or checkbox. That way, you can let the customer choose himself his user group among a list of user groups you entered in the values of the custom field.
The custom field values should have the user group id in the "value" column for the system to work properly in such cases.
Allow registration after guest checkout: When that option is turned on, if the customer placed an order as a guest, the order notification emails will contain a registration link in order to register on the website.
This option is only available in the Essential and Business editions and it requires the guest checkout to be activated in the "Registration" option above.
Log IP address: If you don't want to log the IP address of the customer during the registration/guest form, you can turn off that option.

Display

General display options

Show footer: Display or not the HikaShop footer, with the HikaShop version.
Button style: You can define a special style for buttons on the front end. By default normal buttons are used.
Popup mode: This option is no longer available because from now on the use of the vex library will be systematic as it's the most stable in terms of results.
Image popup mode: The default value is Shadowbox (external). If you choose Mootools, HikaShop will use the mootools popup system of Joomla for the image lightbox on the product page.
If you have display issues, you can use "Shadowbox (external)" (or "embeded" if your website already have shadowbox with your template or a plugin).
Chosen library: This option will only appear on Joomla 3.0 and above. By default it is deactivated.
The Chosen library will convert all the dropdowns of your frontend so that they get more user friendly and good looking. However, with some templates, it might break some of the display.
In such case, you can turn that option off and the dropdowns will then display normally on the frontend.
Pagination: You can select here whether you want the pagination at the top or at the bottom, or none at all, for products and categories listings on the frontend.
Enable comments on products: This option will only appear if you have a Joomla comment component (jComments, jomComment, Komento) compatible.
You can choose to use and display the comments interface from one of these components on the HikaShop product pages so that customers can post comments on products.
Note that HikaShop also has its own comments interface that you can configure under the Votes & Comments section of this configuration page.

CSS Options

Front-end CSS file: Select the CSS file used by HikaShop on the front-end.
The front-end CSS contains all the positioning CSS of HikaShop in order to display properly its default layout.
If possible, it's better to add your CSS to the "Styles for the frontend" setting below or in your template instead of here. That will help you with future updates of your HikaShop as you'll get all the new CSS we will add for the frontend.
Styles for the front-end: This option allows you to choose one style to apply to HikaShop.
The styles CSS contains color/margins/images CSS for HikaShop front-end.
By default, this setting is set to "none" and you want to leave it to none in most cases, unless you purchase our style pack to personalize HikaShop.
Back-end CSS file: Select the CSS file used by HikaShop on the back-end.
Unless you really know what you're doing, you want to leave that setting to "default" or it will break the display of the HikaShop backend.
CSS for buttons: You can write here CSS classes to be added to buttons generated by HikaShop on the frontend.
By default the value is "hikabtn" which has CSS defined in the front-end CSS.
Another possible value is "btn", the Bootstrap CSS class for buttons, if your template includes Bootstrap.
Extra CSS for add to cart buttons: You can write here CSS classes to be added to "Add to cart" buttons generated by HikaShop on the frontend.
Extra CSS for add to wishlist buttons: You can write here CSS classes to be added to "Add to wishlist" buttons generated by HikaShop on the frontend.

Product Options

Modules under the product page

Enable the of display HikaShop content modules under the product page.
By default, the Related products module is enabled there so that HikaShop will automatically display related products at the bottom of the product page when you add related products to your products.

Layout on product page

Choose how you want to display the product page.
HikaShop include several layouts named : Default, Reversed and Tabular.
That setting can be overridden per category and per product with the corresponding setting in the categories/products edition page.
You can also modify these layouts via the menu Display->Views. You can read more about that here.

Quantity input method

You can select here how the customer will be able to enter the quantity information for the products.
This will affect the quantity input on listings, on the product page, but also on the cart, the checkout, etc.

None: No quantity input at all. The add to cart button will add 1 item each time
Default: The default input box with + and - link on the right side
Show select: It will display a dropdown with fixed quantity values. It will either use the product minimum quantity or 1 as increment. And it will either go up to the maximum quantity or up to 15 elements.
Show select by price: It will display a dropdown with fixed quantity values. It will use the prices of the product with one entry for each minimum quantity of the prices available for the product.
Show simple: It will display like "None" but with a hidden input field for the quantity.
Show left and right: It will display the - link on the left of the input and the + link on the right of the input in an unified area.
Show simplified: It will display a simple input box without - and + links.
Show HTML5: It will display like a simple input box but with the "number" type of HTML5 to have up and down arrows in the field to increment/decrement the quantity.
Show default in div: It will display like the "Default" mode but with DIVs instead of a table for the positioning of the elements.
Show regrouped (legacy): This will display the + and - links grouped on the right side next to the input box with the input-append CSS class of Bootstrap

In any case, you can customize these display modes with either CSS, or by editing the file "show_quantity" via the menu Display->Views. You can read more about that here.

Characteristics selection method

You can choose between several possibilities for the characteristics selector on the product page:

Dropdown: a dropdown for each characteristic
Radio Button: radio buttons for each characteristic
Table: a 2D table layout where you will have a characteristic's options as rows and another's as columns with one radio per possibility.
List: a list of the variants of the product

Notes:
- The "Table" option only works with 2 characteristics per product. If a product does have a different number of characteristics, they will default to the dropdown display.
- With the Dropdown and Radio Button options, you'll be able to change the display mode in each characteristic for greater flexibility. - If you want a color selector for your products, you can use a characteristic as described in this tutorial.

Product selection method

You can choose between several possibilities for the options selector on the product page:

Single Dropdown: a dropdown for each option (default)
Checkbox: A group of checkboxes for each option with one checkbox per choice of the option
Radio Button: A group of radio buttons for each option with one radio button per choice of the option
On a per product basis: This will add a dropdown on each product edition page called "Product selection method" so that you can select the way the product will be displayed when used as an option.

Add to cart on listings

You can either have one quantity field for each product of the listing and one main add to cart button for all of them. Or one quantity field and one add to cart button for each product of the listing.

Display a contact button on the product page

That option will add a contact button on your product page so that users can contact you about your products (for quotes for example).
You can also add that button on a per product basis. That means that you will have to choose to display or not the button for each product (you will then find that option when you edit your product).
Note that you can add custom fields of the table "contact" via the menu Display->Custom fields in order to add additional fields to the contact forms.
This option is available in all commercial versions of HikaShop.

Display the contact button on listings

If you configured the option above to get a "contact us" button on the product page of some (or all) of your products, you can activate that option to also display that button on the product listings.
Note that a similar setting is available in the settings of your HikaShop products/categories listing menu items and modules so that you can fine tune the display of that button.
This option is available in all commercial versions of HikaShop.

Display product code

Default option to choose if you display or not the code of the product.
If activated, it will display on the product page, on listings, in the cart, in the invoice, in the email notifications, etc.

Dimensions display

You can turn on that option in order to display the width, height and length of products on their product page.

Weight Display

You can turn on that option in order to display the weight of products on their product page.

Display the characteristics name

You can choose to display or not names before the characteristics selector.

Display the brand

Select if you want to display the brand on the product page.

Display the cost per unit weight

Here, you can define whether or not to display the cost per unit weight on the product page when a weight is set for the product (for example: 5€/Kg)

Show shortcuts to other category products

Display Previous and Next button, switch between the products of the same category.

Modules main default options

All the default options and parameters that you can find here will only be used as default options when creating new content modules or new content menus.
Existing content modules or content menus inherit the default options and parameters at the time they are created.
They do not depend on those general default values anymore after that point unless the options of your menus/modules are set as "inherit".
And thus, for changes to take place on existing content display without "inherited" parameters, you must therefore edit the corresponding menus or modules directly via the Joomla menus or modules manager.

Type of content

You can select what content to display by default in a HikaShop content module : products or categories.

Type of layout

You can select how to display the content by default in menu items or modules : using DIVs, lists or tables.

Number of columns

The numbers of columns in your menu items or modules to display your content items in.
For a module positioned on the side, you will usually set it to only 1 column.
For a menu item or modules with an horizontal display you will want to set several columns.

Number of items

The maximum number of items to display on a page of a menu item or on the module. If you have three columns set and you limit the items to 6, it means that you will have 2 rows of three items each.

Random items

Turn on this option to display randomly chosen items in the module.

Ordering direction

You can set a direction for the ordering of the elements.
For example, if you are loading categories based on their category_created column, if you set the direction to ascending, you will always get the firstly added sub categories displayed in the module. But if you set the direction to descending, you will get the latest created categories displayed first.

Sub elements filter

For categories, you can choose to only display direct sub categories of the current category or all sub categories regardless of their depth.
For products, you choose to only display products in the current category or in all the sub categories of the current category regardless of their depth.
Note that the corresponding setting in menu items and content modules configured to display products will also allow you to display the products in all the sub categories grouped by category.

Main category

You can select here the main category that will be used by default for new menu items and content modules.
The system will display the sub elements of that main category when you access the menu item or when the content module is displayed.

Synchronize with currently displayed item when possible

This option will define in which categories to pick items from for content modules.

For categories, when synchronized:
- On the product page, it will display categories based on the product categories. If the product isn't linked to any category, it will be based on the main category option.
- On a category listing page, it will be based on the current category.
- On other pages, it will be based on the main category.
For products, when synchronized:
- On the product page, it will depend on the option "Content on product page" of the module.
- On a category listing page, it will be based on the current category.
- On other pages, it will be based on the main category.
For categories or products, when not synchronized, it will always be based on the main category.

Use content heading instead of category name for the title

This option is only for men items and allow you to have the name of the current category used as title instead of the menu item page heading.

Default parameters for products

Ordering field: You can select a field on which the products will be ordered on listings.
By default the products will be ordered using the ordering field.
This enables you to set a specific order of display between all the products directly linked to a category with the "order" column of the backend products listing.
Display add to cart button: Default option for displaying the add to cart buttons.
The product page will display the add to cart button based on it, and listings will be based on that option if their "Add to cart" display option is set to "inherit".
Quantity field on "Add to cart" button: Default option for displaying the quantity field for add to cart and wishlist buttons.
Display add to wishlist button: Default option for displaying the add to wishlist buttons.
The product page will display the add to wishlist button based on it, and listings will be based on that option if their "Add to wishlist" display option is set to "inherit".
Link to the product page: If enabled, when you click on the item name or picture of a product on a listing, you are redirected to the item page.
Content on product page: Select here the content that you want to be displayed on products listing content modules with their synchronize option turned on.
This option value will be used when the "Content on product page" setting of the module itself is set to "inherit".
Display price: You can choose to display or not the prices of products on the product page and listings.
Show price in original currency: Based on how you configured your store, HikaShop might have to convert prices between different currencies dynamically.
When doing so, it can add the original price next to the converted price when displaying it.
Show discounted price: If HikaShop needs to apply discounts to the prices displayed, it can also show the price before the discount was applied as an incentive for your customers to buy the products or the discount amount.
Price display method: When you have several prices in the same currency for the same product, the system needs to decide what to display.
That will be the case for prices based on the quantity. So you will either be able to display the lowest of all the prices, or display the price for buying only one item, or the lowest and highest prices as a range of prices.
Display Badge: Enabling this option will display the badges on your products images.
Display custom item fields: Show custom fields fo the table "item" on the products listings.

Default parameters for categories

Ordering field: You can select a field on which the categories will be ordered on listings.
By default the categories will be ordered using the ordering field.
This enables you to set a specific order of display between all the categories directly under a category with the "order" column of the backend categories listing.
Show sub categories: This field will enable you to display subcategories under each category displayed on the listings.
Number of sub categories: You will be able to restrict the sub categories to only a certain number in order to avoid having too much of them displayed.
Show the number of products: Display the number of products linked to the category next to its name on listings.
Link on main categories: For the accordion listings of categories, it enables the link on the first level of categories or not.
Only display categories with products: Display only categories which are not empty.

Default parameters for DIVs

Type of item layout

You can select a layout which will be used for each item display on listings.
You will be able to customize them in the views management screen ( front end, category or product views, listing_* layouts ).
You can also create new ones by adding new files (listing_*) to the front end category/product tmpl folder as standard joomla views and they will be automatically available here.
You can read more about that here.

Item box background color

The color of each item box on listings.
Leave empty for a transparent background.

Item box margin

The margin (empty space around) of the each item box on listings.

Item box border

Set the border of each item box on listings:

No : No borders around each one
Yes : Adds a border class to each item with the corresponding CSS in the frontend CSS of HikaShop to add by default a 1px black border.
Thumbnail : Add the Bootstrap thumbnail class to each item to get the thumbnail border of Boostrap

Item box rounded corners

Set it to yes if you want each item box to have rounded corners.

Text centered

Set it to yes if you want the text inside each item box to be centered.

Table switcher

Set it to yes if you want let your customer define the way displayed divs through grid or list.

Features

Main

Catalogue mode: When the catalogue mode is turned on, the "add to cart" buttons are removed from all the pages.
Enable multi carts: The multi carts system allows the users to have many carts. That way, they can manage their carts in their user control panel, change their current cart, swap a product from one cart to another, etc.
Activate Waitlist feature: That option will add an "Notify me when available" button on your products page when the products are out of stock so that users can be notified when the products stock is replenished (when you set a quantity for the products).
You can also add that button on a per product basis. That means that you will have to choose to display or not the button for each product (you will then find that option when you edit your product).
Please note that you will also have to publish the HikaShop Product Wait List Notification plugin via the Plugins tab and configure your CRON task via the CRON tab of the configuration page.
This option is available in all commercial versions of HikaShop.
Maximum of waitlist subscriber per product: Above that number of subscribers for a product, the "Notify me when available" button won't be displayed anymore.
>Maximum emails sent per product: That's the maximum number of emails which will be sent by the waitlist plugin each time it checks for replenished products in order to notify the subscribers.
In the plugin, you can also change the frequency of these checks.
By default the plugin will do its checks every 2 hours once your configured the cron task in the "cron" tab of the configuration and that you published the waitlist notification plugin in the Plugins tab of the configuration.
Activate compare mode: This option enables you to activate a comparison feature so that your customers can compare products together easily.
It will add a compare button for each product on the products listing
Also, by default, there are no fields to be compared in your products.
You will have to add custom fields of the table "product" via the menu Display->Custom fields in order to be able to enter additional information in your products which will then be presented on the comparison table.
You can have custom fields of the type "custom text" to have "separators" in the comparison table.
This option is only available in the Business edition.
Compare limitation: The maximum number of products you want your users to compare at once.
That's important to set properly to avoid layout issues caused by the width of your template's main area.
The option will only appear if the "Activate compare mode" setting is enabled.
Display add to wishlist button in compare page: Display an add to wishlist button on the compare page to add all the compared products in the wishlist.
The option will only appear if the "Enable wishlists" and the "Activate compare mode" settings are enabled.
Enable wishlists: The wishlists are shared products list, the users can share their wishlists with other people, and then other peoples can buy the items and can offer them to the wishlist owner.
It's useful for wedding gift lists, newborn gift lists, etc.
Note that the wishlist system requires the user to be logged in.
Hide wishlist button for guest users: When activated, the "Add to wishlist" button won't be displayed if the user is not logged in.
When deactivated, the "Add to wishlist" button will display to everyone, but if you click on it while not logged-in, it will display an error message.
The option will only appear if the "Enable wishlists" setting is enabled.
Display "Add to wishlist" button for free products: The "Add to wishlist" button is only displayed if the product has a price unless that option is turned on.
The option will only appear if the "Enable wishlists" setting is enabled.
Enable multi wishlist: The multi wishlist system allows the users to have many wishlists. That way, they can manage their wishlists in their user control panel, change their current wishlist, swap a product from one wishlist to another, etc.

Vote & Comment

Note that options relative to the vote system will only display if you select "Vote only", "Vote & Comment" or "Vote & Comment connected", and the options relative to the comment system will only display if you select "Comment only", "Vote & Comment" or "Vote & Comment connected" in the setting "Choose which module you want to enable" and then save the settings.

Choose which module you want to enable

Here you can select if you want to display only the rating stars, or only the comment form, or both.
Another option is "Vote & comment connected". With this option, customers must both select a rating and enter a comment in the comment textarea before validating the comment form.

Choose the level access to vote or comment

Three choices are available:

Public: Anyone can vote or comment.
Registered: Only registered users can comment or vote.
Bought: Only users who already purchased the product can participate.

Number of stars for the rating

Set the star numbers to ise for the rating system. All the rates are calculated based on this number.

If users are not logged in, require email address for comment

If the access level is "public" the users must fill in a username, and if you enable this option, the users also have to fill their email address.

Auto publish new comments

When a comment is posted, you can publish it or not. If new comments are unpublished, you have to enable them manually in the backend interface.

Send email for new comments

If you fill this field, each time a comment is submitted, you receive an email with the name of the user and a link to edit the comment, publish or unpublish it.
You can set several emails addresses by separating them with a coma (",").

Maximum number of comments per user for one product

Set how many comments a user can post for each product.

Number of comments to be shown per page

If the limit is reached, the pagination system is enabled.

Choose how the comments have to be sorted

This option allows you to choose how you want to sort the comments:

Date: The oldest comments first.
Date - revese order: The latest comments first.
Helpful: The most helpful comments first.

Allow users to sort comments

Enabling this option will add a dropdown on the comments listing to give the user the possibility to order the comments the way they want.

Users must be registered to see other comments

If the user is not logged in, he can't see the previously posted comments.

Display the date of each comments

Choose if you want to display the date of each comments in the comments listing on the product page.

Enable helpful rating for each comment

The users can vote for or against the comments.
Each comment get a rating which can be positive or negative.
All the comments are then listed with their rating.
This can be used by the system to order comments by "Helpful" order.

Users must be registered to note other comments

If enabled, only logged-in users will be able to vote for or against the comments of others.

Set the helpful vote style

Here, you can choose between two different ways to display the helpful rate of each comment.

Display votes and/or comments on product pages

If that option is disabled the votes/comments interface won't be displayed on the product page. Otherwise, it will.

Display votes on listings

Select if you want to display the votes rating on the products on the products listings.
Note that this parameter will only be taken into account on listings if the "Vote" display setting of the listing menu item / module is set to "inherit".

Log IP address

You can deactivate that option to not log the IP address of the user in the comment/vote.

Affiliate

Partner key: In the urls of the banners you will have a parameter automatically added which will enable HikaShop to know from which partner the user is coming from.
This parameter's name can be customized. So instead of partner_id=42 you could have aff=42 appended at the end of the urls (?aff=42 or &aff=42 depending your query string).
Note that once you activate your affiliate program, you should not change it as your partners will already use it in their urls and hikashop would not be able to detect those old urls anymore.
Click fee: The fee for clicks (when someone comes to your website from the partner's website).
Lead fee: The fee for leads (new inscriptions when the user comes from the partner's website).
Percentage fee on sales: The percentage fee for sales.
The amount will be calculated based on the valid orders (based on their status and the "partner" status toggles in the menu System->Order statuses) total amount and converted in the currency of the partner.
Percentage fee excluding shipping: If that option is turned off the shipping fees of the order won't be taken into account for the calculation of the amount based on the percentage fee.
This option is only available when a value has been entered in the "Percentage fee on sales" field.
Flat fee on sales: The flat fee for sales.
The amount will be calculated for the valid orders (based on their status and the "partner" status toggles in the menu System->Order statuses) and converted in the currency of the partner.
Validity period of a click for leads and sales: When a user comes to your website using a link from a partner, a cookie is stored in his browser with a validity period.
That enables HikaShop to remember him next time he comes to your website. After the validity period, the cookie is destroyed.
When this user comes to your website to register or place an order, he will be included in the leads/sales of the partner only if the cookie is there.
Minimum delay before a new click from the same IP will be valid: If you pay your partners per click coming to your website, each time someone comes to it, your partner user account is credited of the click fee you set.
To avoid having someone clicking several times in a row on an affiliate link, virtually increasing your partner's credits, you can set here a time limit before you will take into account a click coming from the same IP address.
This option is only available when a value has been entered in the "Click fee" field.
No affiliation if cart present: Do not accept the affiliation if a cart is already present in the user session when the user arrives on the website via an affiliation link.
The goal of an affiliation system is to pay partners for them to bring new customers to you. If a customer already has a cart in his session when he clicks on the affiliation link, it probably means that it's the partner trying to cheat and rack in fees for his own purchases.
Minimun delay before paying the affiliate commission: Set the delay before an affiliate commision will be paid.
The order partner fee will only be taken into account in the total commission to be paid to the partner once that delay has been reached for the order.
Add partner to user account during registration: If that option is turned on, the partner id will be stored with the user account when the user account is created so that the future sales coming from that user account will go to the partner regardless of the "Validity period of a click for leads and sales".
Affiliate program terms & conditions article: You can select here a Joomla article which contains your affiliate program terms and conditions.
If you do, a link will be displayed on the affiliate program screen on the front end leading the user to your article.
Add a 'become partner' checkbox on the registration form: With this option you can add a checkbox on the registration screens of HikaShop so that the users can easily join your affiliate program while registering on your website.
Default value of the partner checkbox: You can select here the default value of the "become a partner" checkbox that you can activate with the option above.
This option will only appear after you turn on the option above and save the settings.
Partner's currency: The currency in which the partners will be paid in.
You can also configure it in each partner edition page
And based on the next option, your partners might even be able to choose it from the front end affiliate program's interface.
Allow partners to select their currency: You can allow your partners to select the currency they want to be paid in. That can be useful if your store handles several currencies.
Display affiliates advanced statistics: You can allow your partners to visualize advanced statistics on their sales/leads/clicks by turning this option on.
No self affiliation: If that option is activated, partners won't be able to earn commissions for their own purchases on your website.

SEF URL Options

Note that these options require the SEF system to be activated in your Joomla configuration.

Simplified breadcrumbs: This option is for the breadcrumb displayed by the Joomla breadcrumb module on the product page.
The format of the breadcrumb on the product page is: {home} > {menu item} > { sub menu item} ... > {category} > {sub category} ... > {product}
When the option is activated, the {category} > {sub category} ... > part of the breadcrumb is removed allowing for smaller product page URLs, potentially good for your SEF.
When the option is turned off, a parameter "category_pathway" is added to the URLs of the product page so that the system can properly display the {category} > {sub category} ... > part of the breadcrumb.
Note that if the "Force canonical URLs on listings" is activated, and that you have canonical URLs in your products, you won't see any change when changing that option since it relies on the "category_pathway" parameter in the URLs.
Remove products and categories id in URLs: When that option is activated, the id of the products and categories in the SEF URLs generated will be removed.
Note that when you activate it, the previous URLs with the ids still work.
The downfall of that backward compatibility is that you can't have a number at the beginning of the alias of your products/categories or the system will look for another product when clicking on the link.
Note that if the "Force canonical URLs on listings" is activated, and that you have canonical URLs in your products, you won't see any change when changing that option.
Force canonical URLs on listings: If you select "No, generate the URLs" in this option, the system will dynamically generate the SEF URLs ( for example https://www.hikashop.com/extensions/hika-business.html ) based on the non-SEF URLs ( for example index.php?option=com_hikashop&ctrl=product&task=show&cid=10&alias=hika-business&Itemid=12 ) for each link.
Based on how you setup your menus/modules it can potentially lead to "duplicate URLs for the same content" issues resulting in a downgrade of your page rank.
The "USe canonical URL if specified" option will result in the system using the canonical URL that you can specify when you edit your products/categories if present.
If not present, it will generate the SEF URL based on the non-SEF URL.
Finally, if you choose the "Use canonical URL and generate it if missing" option, the system will use the canonical URL if present, if not, it will generate the SEF URL based on the non-SEF URL and then save that SEF URL as canonical URL of your product/category avoiding you the burden of filling all the canonical URLs manually.
Category SEF name: You can specify here what you want instead of the "category" part of the SEF URLs.
You can also have the field empty so that it removes completely the "category" part of the SEF URLs.
However, you can't remove both "product" and "category" parts of HikaShop SEF URLs on the front end.
Note that if the "Force canonical URLs on listings" is activated, and that you have canonical URLs in your products, you won't see any change when changing that option.
Product SEF name: You can specify here what you want instead of the "product" parts of the SEF URLs.
You can also have the field empty so that it removes completely the "product" part of the SEF URLs.
However, you can't remove both "product" and "category" parts of HikaShop SEF URLs on the front end.
Note that if the "Force canonical URLs on listings" is activated, and that you have canonical URLs in your products, you won't see any change when changing that option.
Checkout SEF name: You can specify here what you want instead of the "checkout" part of the SEF URLs on the checkout.
Note that if the "Force canonical URLs on listings" is activated, and that you have canonical URLs in your products, you won't see any change when changing that option.
Alias automatic filling: With the option activated, the alias of products and categories will be filled automatically based on the product name.
Automatic product keywords and metadescription filling: When activated, the keywords and metadescription of products will be generated automatically from the product description when the product is saved in the backend.
For the keywords, the system will sum the number of times each word occur in the description and will use the ones with the highest score.
For the metadescription, the system will strip all the HTML tags from the description and will cut the description text.
Number of generated keywords: The number of keywords to be generated automatically out of the product description.
The option will only appear if the "Automatic product keywords and metadescription filling" setting is enabled.
Maximum size of the metadescription: The maximum size of the metadescription to be generated automatically out of the product description (in number of characters).
The option will only appear if the "Automatic product keywords and metadescription filling" setting is enabled.
Keywords exclusion list: List here all the words that will be ignored in order to select the keywords.
The option will only appear if the "Automatic product keywords and metadescription filling" setting is enabled.

Filter

Note that filters can be configured via the menu Display->Filters.
They can either be displayed by a HikaShop Filter Module that you can configure via the Joomla modules manager, or at the top of your products listings, if the "Filters" display setting under the "Products options" tab of the menu item is activated.
The options below only apply to filters being displayed at the top of products listing menu items.
Finally, note that these options are only available in the Business edition of HikaShop.

Number of columns

Here, you can set the number of columns for your filters.
If you want 4 filters by row, for more visibility, it's possible.

Limit

With that setting you can restrict the number of filters.

Height

This defines the height of each row of filters.

Show reset button

When enabled, this option display a reset button which removes the values of all the previously set filters.

Show filter button

If you disable this option, the "Filter" button will not be visible.
In that case, you should make sure the option "Submit on click" is turned on for the different filters you created. Otherwise, the filters won't do anything.

Display fieldset

Display or not the fieldset around the filters.

Filter button position

You can change the position of the filter button, you can place it on the left or right of the filters, or next to the last field with the option "Inside".

Display filters on product listing

Enabling this option will display the filters on the product listing pages when the "Filters" display setting of the menu items is set to "Inherit".

Collapsable filters

You have three choices here relative to how the filters area above the products listing displays:

No: The filters area will not be collapsable and will always display fully.
Mobile devices: The filters area will display fully on desktop, but will display collapsed by default on mobile devices. That's the default behavior.
Always: The filters area will always display collapsed by default.

Atom & RSS Feed

Type: You can choose here whether or not RSS and Atom feeds of your products should be published on your products listings.
Name: You can enter an name for your feeds.
Description: You can also enter a description.
Number of items: You can select here how many of your products should be displayed in the feeds.
Ordering field: Select here the field which will be used by HikaShop for the ordering of the products in the feeds.
By default, it will display the latest products created in your store.
Show sub categories: You can allow the system to display the feeds based on the products in the current category or also include all the products of the sub categories of the current category.

Advanced

Advanced Settings

Display view files: That setting is made for the development phase, when you need to customize the HikaShop views.
When set to 'Front-end', you'll see the name of each view file on the frontend so that you can rapidly know which view file to edit in the menu Display > Views.
When set to 'All', you'll also see them on the backend.
Once you know which view file you want to edit, you can edit them via the menu Display>Views as explained on this tutorial.
Cart retaining period: The period of time during which the cart will be kept in the database. After that, the cart data will be cleaned to avoid having too much data.
Frequency of the check for the carts: The frequency of the "cart retaining period" check. Additionally, the last check date will be displayed.
Activate product recovery: When that option is turned on, when you delete a product in the backend, it will go to the trash. You'll also get a "trashed" button to access a listing of the trashed products where you'll be able to either restore the products or purge them.
Dimension symbols: You can set here the possible dimension symbols in your store.
The only possible values are : m dm cm mm in ft yd.
Those values can be converted automatically between each other in the system.
So, for example, you can restrict a shipping method to orders with a volume lower than 1m³ and have your products dimensions in inches.
The conversion will be done automatically.
Note that the first unit of the list will be the default one used for new products.
Weight symbols: You can set here the possible weight symbols in your store. The only possible values are : g kg lb oz.
Those values can be converted automatically between each other in the system.
So, for example, you can restrict a shipping method to orders with a weight lower than 5kg and have your products weight in lb.
The conversion will be done automatically.
Note that the first unit of the list will be the default one used for new products.
Editor: You can select here the editor you want to use to edit all your HTML content in HikaShop (product description, order notifications, custom fields of the type "WYSIWYG", etc)
Description default format: You can select here the format you want to use for the product description.
By default HTML is selected, and in that case, it will let you edit it using the editor selected in the option above this one.
The "Markdown" format is also available by default. You can read more about it here. When choosing Markdown the editor will be deactivated for a simple text area.
It's possible to have your own formatting by developping a plugin similar to the one in plugins/hikashop/content_markdown/ which we made for the Markdown format.
Read more: The read more link can be displayed in the editor by turning this option on.
Unfortunately, on some browsers, this read more link might not work when combined with the multi language edition and is thus disabled by default.
Deactivate buffering and compression for files download: Activating this option can sometimes help when you have issues with the download of files in HikaShop.
Redirect POST mode: If that option is activated, the pagination and filters parameters will be passed in the URL of your products listings.
That will avoid warning messages with the "back" button of some browsers when using the pagination/filters and then going back, but the URLs will be less nice as they will contain these parameters instead of having them passed through the POST of requests.
Server current URL mode: This option can sometimes help when you have errors with HikaShop not directing you to the correct URL with some actions on the frontend due to the server configuration. In most cases, it should be left to REQUEST_URI.
Affiliate: Put your affiliate ID, a link will be created to HikaShop with your ID to sponsor other users.

Legacy Settings

Use bootstrap design: That option is turned off by default.
When turned on, the views of HikaShop on the frontend will be responsive and use the bootstrap library for their styling.
It requires that your Joomla template supports bootstrap 2.
On Joomla 3.0, most templates should ; However, if you have display issues on your frontend (like for example the number of columns of your listings which is always 1 no matter what you enter in the "number of columns" option of your menus/modules), it means that your template does not support bootstrap and that you should turn off that option.
In such cases, you can potentially install a bootstrap compatibility joomla plugin in order to add the boostrap support on your frontend.
Finally, note that some templates might only partially support bootstrap (only the CSS and not the JS, or only some pieces of the CSS) like we found out with at least some YooTheme templates.
In that case, we would recommend to contact your template provider for help so that you get all the pieces of bootstrap in it if you want to have a responsive display for HikaShop interfaces.
Since HikaShop 3.0.0, this option is not useful anymore as views are automatically responsive regardless of Bootstrap. However, if you're updating HikaShop from an older version, this option might still be useful for old view overrides you might have.
Variants published by default: You can set here the publish state of variants generated by HikaShop when you add characteristics to your products.
This option should normally always be turned on. And might be dropped in the future.
Checkout legacy: Use the legacy checkout system from before HikaShop 3.0.0
You might want to leave that option activated when you update your HikaShop from an old version and you have problems with the new checkout system. Otherwise, you should leave that option turned off.
Add to cart legacy: Use the legacy add to cart system from before HikaShop 3.0.0
You might want to leave that option activated when you update your HikaShop from an old version and you have problems with the new cart system. Otherwise, you should leave that option turned off.
Backend dashboard legacy: Use the legacy dashboard in the backend from before HikaShop 3.0.0.
If you wish to use the old widget system that you can configure via the Orders>Reports menu, you can activate that option. Otherwise, you'll get a modern responsive display with more useful information by default.
Advanced checkout workflow edition: This option enable a dynamic view to edit the checkout workflow and could be turned off to display a raw version of the configuration data.
As this is not useful anymore and it should always be turned on, we've deprecated the option.
Auto select default shipping and payment methods: If the payment and shipping methods are not automatically selected, the user will have to select one of the shipping and payment methods to be able to proceed to the next step of the checkout.
That option is only when the checkout legacy mode is activated and the first shipping/payment method is automatically selected with the new checkout.
Auto submit shipping and payment methods selection: If you deactivate this option the user will have to click on next to validate its shipping/payment selection while if you activate it, the shipping/payment selection will be validated immediately when the user select another shipping/payment method.
That option is only when the checkout legacy mode is activated and the shipping/payment methods selection is automatically submitted through AJAX with the new checkout.
Business hours: That option enables you to only activate the checkout of HikaShop for a defined period of time throughout the day.
The "Shop closed hours" plugin can be configured via the System->Plugins menu's "New" button in order to configure the hours ranges for which your shop is open allowing for much more flexibility than before.
Note that this option is only taken into account for the legacy checkout and the Shop closed hours plugin is only taken into account for the new checkout system.
Show shipping "same address" checkbox: If turned on, the system will display by default only the billing address selection and a "same address for shipping" checkbox which will be checked by default.
The user will then have to uncheck it in order to be able to enter the shipping address.
If turned off, the system will directly display the shipping method interface next to the billing one.
Display the convert cart in wishlist button: Display a convert cart in wishlist button on the checkout to be able to convert the current cart into a wishlist.
That option has been deprecated and only works with the legacy checkout as it is not useful enough.
After a product is added to the cart: You can choose to always go to the checkout page, or to always stay on the same page.
Additionally, you can let the system choose whether to stay or go to the checkout based on the cart module being displayed or not: if displayed, you will stay on the same page but if the module is not displayed you will go to the checkout page.
Finally, you can choose to display a notification popup to the user which will stay for 3 seconds where the user can click on a button to access the checkout or close the popup immediately.
This option only works with the legacy add to cart system. The new system will ignore it. Instead, you can configure the Hikashop Add to Cart notification Plugin via the Joomla plugins manager in order to get anotification popup or box.
The new system is lighter, cleaner, nicer, more flexible and better compatible with third party extensions and templates.
Use AJAX when possible for add to cart buttons: When that option is activated, AJAX will be used for add to cart buttons.
The new add to cart system always use AJAX and can fallback to normal submit if the javascript is disabled so this option isn't necessary anymore with it.
Notice popup display time: You can configure here the amount of time that the notice popup will be displayed after a product is added to the cart (note that you need to set the option below to "stay and display notice popup").
With the new add to cart system, you'll find an "Auto-hide delay" setting in the Hikashop Add to Cart notification Plugin via the Joomla plugins manager in order to configure that.
Add to cart popup size: Enter her the size of the popup notice.
This setting it's taken into account with the new add to cart system. The notifications box size can now be changed with CSS.

Languages

This listing displays the list of your website's languages (Front-End). For each language, you can edit the HikaShop language file.
Languages files are not included in the package.
You should click on the create button and the latest version of this language will be directly loaded from our website.
Then, you simply have to save the language to have it on your website.

For any reason, if your language file could not be automatically installed, you can manually download it on the HikaShop website.
If you translate some of the entries in the file, please don't forget to share your translated language files so that we can include them in our next release.

Additionally, you can activate the " Activate the edition of content in multiple languages" setting to be able to translate your Hikashop content (products, categories, etc) in the different languages installed on your website.
Note that this option are only available with our commercial versions (Essential and Business).
Finally, the translation system is compatible with the Falang extension. If the system detects Falang on your website, it will automatically save the translations of your content in Falang and will let Falang handle the translations on the frontend. Otherwise, it will save the translations as overrides (you can see them on the right side of the screen if you edit a language here).

If you're using Falang and your multi-lingual content is not displayed on the front end, please make sure that the Falang driver system plugin is enabled in the joomla plugins manager.
Also, if you installed Falang after HikaShop or if the contentelements folder of Falang is not writable, you will have to copy the files manually from the folder administrator/components/com_hikashop/translations to administrator/components/com_falang/contentelements.

Access level

With this view, you can control who has access to which feature of the backend of HikaShop. You can restrict the features to one or several groups of users.

Inherit parent group access: You can select here whether the children user groups should inherit the access rights from the parent user groups or not. By default, that option is turned off.

This feature is only available in the Business edition.

Cron

The Cron task is used by the waitlist system, the currencies rates auto refresh plugin, the mass action triggers, the out of stock notification plugin, etc.
Basically, any process that requires to be run at a certain frequency.
So before using them, you need to make sure that your properly configured your cron task. Please follow our tutorial on that.
This feature is only available in the Essential and the Business editions.

Minimum delay between two cron tasks: Minimum delay between two processes on HikaShop.
This parameter is only a security so that two cron tasks cannot run at the same time.
Next Run Time: Next time the Cron task is allowed to run.
It does not mean that the cron task will run HikaShop at this exact time. But it means HikaShop will accept a cron URL if it triggers HikaShop after this time.
Cron URL: Cron URL to trigger HikaShop. You should use this URL to create your cron task.
You can make sure it's a working URL by clicking on the link.
Send a report: When does HikaShop should send a report?
Send the report to: You can enter one or several e-mail addresses so that HikaShop will send the report to those users (separate each email address with a comma).
Save the report: Which report should HikaShop save in the log file?
Save the report to: Location of the log file.
Last Run Time: Last time HikaShop executed actions via the cron url.
Triggered from the IP: HikaShop has been triggered by the following IP.
Report: Latest report generated by HikaShop.

demo.hikashop.com General Configuration

Here, you will be able to see hour demo website configuration, demo.hikashop.com

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