Reference
The settings map
Every settings tab and what it controls, so you know which one to open before you start looking.
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This page is the index to Settings: what each tab owns, so you can go straight to the right one instead of clicking through all of them.
Settings is split in two. One group is shop-wide and holds the facts everything else reads — currency, time zone, taxes, hours, providers. The other is the website, which holds the structure of your public site. When a screen somewhere else behaves oddly, the cause is usually a missing value in the first group.
- Open Settings from the left navigation.
- Start with General Settings on a new shop: business name, currency, time zone, contact details. Prices and times cannot render without these.
- Open Taxes & Compliance to set how tax is applied, and Fulfillment & Locations if you sell from more than one place.
- Open Booking & Calendar for the shop-level rules behind appointments.
- Open Payment Providers to connect the account your money settles into.
- Open Analytics & SEO for the measurement and search settings, and Notification Hub for which events produce an email.
- Open the Website tab for the storefront structure: theme, pages, navigation, domains, and the header and footer documents.
- General Settings
- Business identity, currency, time zone
- Booking & Calendar
- Shop-level booking rules and hours
- Analytics & SEO
- Measurement and search settings
- Taxes & Compliance
- How tax is applied and recorded
- Fulfillment & Locations
- Where you sell from and how orders are fulfilled
- Notification Hub
- Which events send an email, and to whom
- Payment Providers
- The account money settles into
- System Settings
- Platform-level behaviour for this shop
- POS
- Counter-specific settings
- Activity Log
- What changed, and when
The tabs are ordered roughly by how often they are opened, so General at the top is not a suggestion that it is the only important one. Taxes and payment providers are the two that quietly change what a customer is charged, and both are worth opening once before you take a real payment.
Changing currency after you have taken payments does not convert the payments already recorded — it changes how new amounts are shown. Set currency once, at the start, and treat a later change as a migration rather than a setting.