# General Settings Overview

https://docs.wisecp.com/fr/general-settings-overview

General Settings is the tabbed screen where you manage your site's company details, search-engine text, regional defaults, client registration rules, URL structure, API access, and social sign-in.

## Opening the Screen

Open **Settings**, then select **General**. The screen also opens directly at:

`{admin}/settings`

Each tab below has its own address, so you can bookmark or share a link straight to it: add `?general=basic`, `?general=seo`, or `?general=localisation` to the address above.

## What Is on the Screen

A row of tabs sits at the top of the page. Which ones you see depends on your privileges.

- **Basic**: company details, contact channels, the contact form and map, and social links.
- **SEO**: the title, keywords, and description search engines show for your site.
- **Localization**: default language, currency, country, date format, time zone, and location detection.
- **Clients**: sign-in and registration switches, and custom registration fields.
- **Permalinks**: the site's URL structure and the wording of built-in URL segments.
- **API**: Admin API and Client API credentials, and API request logs.
- **Social Sign-in**: sign-in through providers such as Google. Only shown once a provider is set up.
- **Advanced**: cart, coupon, cache, and other site-wide switches, plus starting ID numbers.

Most tabs hold a single form with its own **Save** button. API and Social Sign-in work a little differently: API lists credentials in a table with its own create and delete actions, and Social Sign-in lists one provider at a time.

## Tasks

### Switching Between Tabs

Click a tab to open its content. The page address updates to match, so refreshing the page or sharing the link returns to the same tab.

## Things to Watch

> **Saving one tab does not save the others**
> 
> Basic, SEO, Localization, Clients, Permalinks, and Advanced each submit their own form. If you edit fields on two of these tabs before saving, only the tab whose Save button you click is stored.

> **Some tabs need their own permission**
> 
> An admin account only sees the tabs that match its assigned privileges; the rest are left out of the tab row entirely.

## Required Privileges

- **SETTINGS_INFORMATIONS_CONFIGURE**: required to open this screen at all, and covers the Basic tab.
- **SETTINGS_SEO_CONFIGURE**: required for the SEO and Permalinks tabs.
- **SETTINGS_LOCALIZATION_CONFIGURE**: required for the Localization tab.
- **SETTINGS_MEMBERSHIP_CONFIGURE**: required for the Clients tab.
- **SETTINGS_API_CREDENTIALS**: required for the API tab.
- **SETTINGS_OTHER_CONFIGURE**: required for the Advanced tab.

## Related Articles

- [Basic Settings](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/basic-settings)
- [SEO Settings](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/seo-settings)
- [Localization Settings](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/localization-settings)
- [Client Membership Settings](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/client-membership-settings)
- [Permalinks](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/permalinks)
- [API Settings](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/api-settings)
- [Social Sign-in](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/social-sign-in)
- [Advanced Settings](https://docs.wisecp.com/en/advanced-settings)