Exploring Shopware: Basic Information in Shopware 6 Settings

Welcome to our guide to the Shopware 6 administration. In this chapter, we explore the Basic Information screen of Shopware 6 settings. The article explains how to find the Basic Information page in Shopware 6, what functions and features it contains, and how to configure basic information in Shopware 6. You will learn how the basic information settings are structured. We describe such sections as Sales Channel, Basic Information, Shop Pages, and Security and Privacy. Besides, the following article provides a brief overview of data import to Shopware 6 that can help you transfer basic information to your e-commerce website.

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How to Find Basic Information Settings in Shopware 6

The Basic Information screen is situated in the main settings section of your website. You can find Basic Information settings in Shopware 6 as follows:

1. Go to your Shopware 6 administration;
2. Open its main menu;
3. Proceed to the Settings section;
4. Open the Shop subsection;
5. Hit the Basic Information button.

Basic Information Structure

The Basic Information section lets you store relevant data for your respective sales channels. Shopware 6 provides the ability to apply settings globally or per sales channel. As for the pare, it is divided into the following four sections:

• Sales Channel;
• Basic Information;
• Shop Pages;
• Security and Privacy. 

Sales Channel

In this section, you can choose a sales channel to apply changes to its basic information. As we’ve just mentioned, it is possible to configure all the necessary data globally for the entire Shopware website.

Basic Information

In the Basic Information section, you can edit the shop name associated with the selected sales channel and provide another email address associated with the shop owner. Besides, Shopware 6 lets you proceed to another screen to configure the email sender address of the specified sales channels. You need to set up a custom domain to apply changes here. The last option provides the ability to set the “isFamilyFriendly” meta tag for search engines.

Shop pages

The Shop Pages section lets you define page layouts for the following areas of your e-commerce storefront:

• Terms of service pages;
• Revocation notices;
• Payment and shipping information;
• Privacy pages;
• Imprint;
• Missing pages (404: page not found):
• Maintenance;
• Contact pages;
• Newsletter pages.

We explain how to create different shop page layouts in Shopware 6 in our article about Shopping Experiences.

Security and Privacy

This section lets you enable additional security measures to keep your store safe. Besides, several privacy features are at your service. 

The Active Captchas field provides the ability to select captchas used during registration. This feature helps to eliminate bots and scripts from creating customer accounts on your Shopware 6 website. By default, the system provides the honeypot here. It is associated with an additional invisible field offered during registration. While customers cannot see it, bots and scripts fill in the field and get detected. 

The Show all cookies feature lets you display a button in the storefront that provides store visitors with the ability to accept all cookies.

Besides, you can make the following three fields mandatory for submitting a form that contains them:

• First name in contact forms required;
• Last name in contact forms required;
• Phone number in contact forms required.

How to Import Basic Information to Shopware 6

If you need to import basic information to Shopware 6, you’ve come to the right place. Our team lets you simplify and automate various processes associated with data transfers to your e-commerce store. You can leverage our Improved Import, Export & Mass Actions for Shopware to import any entity to Shopware 6. The module provides the ability to automate data transfers with the help of cron-based schedules. At the same time, it lets you edit all the imported data automatically with the help of mapping schemes. Please, contact our support before working with basic information on import or using our module for other purposes. 

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