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General Store Settings

The Settings section of your dashboard is where you edit your store's basic information — name, description, location, social media links, phone number, and the language your storefront is displayed in for customers. This page also holds your device push notification settings, covered at the end of this page.

Getting to the page​

  1. From the dashboard sidebar, click Settings.
  2. You'll find the Store Settings section right below the device notifications card.

Note: your store's subdomain (storename.zimamshops.com) and connecting a custom domain also appear at the top of this same page, but are documented separately in Custom Domains.

Basic store information​

  • Store Name — the name shown to customers on your storefront.
  • Store Description — a short description of your store (multi-line field).
  • Location — a free-text field for your store's location or business address (e.g. city or province).

Edit any field, then click Save Changes at the bottom of the page to apply your edits.

The page has four fields for your store's social accounts:

  • Instagram, TikTok, and Telegram — enter only the username (not the full URL). Each field shows the link prefix automatically (instagram.com/, tiktok.com/@, t.me/) before the username box, and the system builds the full link for you on save.
  • Facebook — a full-URL field. If you type a page name or URL without http:// or https://, the page automatically adds https:// for you as soon as you leave the field.

Leaving any of these fields empty simply means that link won't be shown on your storefront.

Phone number​

The Phone Number field is the contact number shown to customers on your storefront.

Storefront language​

The Storefront Language setting controls the language your storefront is displayed in for customers (this is not the language of your own seller dashboard, which is set from the language dropdown in the top bar). The available options are:

  • العربية (Arabic)
  • English
  • Français (French)

Pick a language from the dropdown; the change is saved together with the rest of your store settings when you click Save Changes.

Saving your changes​

After editing any field on this page, click the Save Changes button at the bottom. The button switches to Saving... while the update is in progress.

Device push notifications​

At the top of the Settings page, above the store fields, is a Device push notifications card. This setting is tied to the specific browser/device you're currently using, not to your store settings as a whole:

  • An Enable on this device or Disable on this device button turns push notifications for new orders on or off for this device only.
  • The card shows the current status of this device (enabled, disabled, blocked by the browser, unsupported, or that registration failed), along with a message explaining why.
  • The Notification sounds section lets you choose the sound for new-order alerts (a chime or a cash sound) and for other notifications (a system sound or a chime), plus a volume slider. These sounds only play while the dashboard is open in your browser — sounds outside the dashboard are controlled by your browser and device.

Because device notification settings are per device/browser, enabling them on one device does not automatically enable them on another device you log in from.