Settings — Cairn

Start hereRunning the siteSettingsSettings holds the things you set once for the whole site: its name, contact details, business details, header and footer, upload limits and the rules for each module you run.Finding your way round SettingsOpen Settings under System in the sidebar. The screen is split into tabs along the top. General is always there. The others appear only for the parts of Cairn your site runs: CMS, Media, Redirects, Shop, Members and Bookings.If a tab you expect is missing, that module is switched off for your site. Modules are switched on and off by whoever set up your site, not from this screen, so ask them.The General tab.Saving your changesSettings has one save for every tab. As soon as you change a field, a bar slides up at the bottom of the screen saying 1 unsaved change. Press Save settings to keep your changes, or Discard to put everything back as it was.You can move between tabs before saving. Changes on every tab are saved together.The Logo and Dark logo are the exception: they save the moment you upload or remove them, so you can't lose them by forgetting to save. The Social share image waits for Save settings like everything else.The General tab

Site name: used in the header, footer, page titles and search results. Leave it blank to use the name shown in grey, which was set when your site was installed.

Support email: your public contact address. It is the address shown to visitors and the one search engines are told about.

Send a test email: type an address and press Send test to check the site can send email. If it fails, the error appears under the box.

Logo, Dark logo and Site icon: covered in Logo, icons, header and footer.

Business details: what search engines are told about your business (kind of business, legal name, phone, address, country code, price range and social profiles). It is also the contact line at the foot of your emails. Leave a field blank to keep the value shown in grey.

Social share image: the picture shown when someone shares a page that has no share image of its own. About 1200×630 works best. See Search engines and sharing.

Under the test email box, See every email the site sends → opens the Emails screen. See Emails the site sends.The CMS, Media and Redirects tabs

CMS → Layout: pick the Site header block and Site footer block, the reusable blocks shown at the top and bottom of every page. Choose None to have no header or footer. Build them first under Reusable Blocks; see Reusable blocks and Logo, icons, header and footer.

CMS → Optional blocks: blocks that are off unless your site asks for them. Tick one to add it to the editor's palette. Turning one off never touches pages that already use it; the content is kept and comes back if you turn it on again.

Media: the largest file you can add to the media library (Max library upload (MB)) and the largest picture for logo, product and image fields (Max image upload (MB)).

Redirects: how long the 404 log keeps entries. Keep entries (days) removes rows not seen for that long (0 means never by age), and Max rows kept caps the log at the newest rows. See Redirects and the 404 log.

The Shop, Members and Bookings tabsThese tabs hold each module's own rules. They are explained in full on the module's own pages; here is what each one covers.

Shop: Store (the special-order message and collection at checkout), Orders & notifications (where new-order emails go, the order number prefix and the low-stock warning), Payments & shipping (whether Stripe is connected, and how delivery is charged), Stock & rules (how new products count stock, the minimum age and the basket hold) and Wording (every fixed message a shopper reads). See Setting up the shop.

Members: the Landing page a member sees after signing in, and How to pay instructions for paid memberships. See Members.

Bookings: where booking notifications go, the reminder email, whether guests give a phone number, the terms under the Book button and whether bookings are added to Leads. See Bookings.

Stripe keys are never typed into Settings. The Payments & shipping card only shows whether your account is connected and ready. To connect or change the Stripe account, ask whoever set up your site.← MembersUsers and permissions →Getting startedPagesBuilding with blocksNavigation and lookMediaForms and leadsCatalogueShopBookings and membersRunning the siteCairnWebsites for businesses that need more than a brochure. Built, hosted and kept running by us.StartBuildRun© 2026 Cairn. All rights reserved.Built with Cairn.