The General tab of the Payage Configuration page has the following options:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Days to Keep Confirmed Transactions | When a customer pays, the payment record becomes a confirmed transaction, even if payment fails for any reason. The default retention time is 5 years. A zero here keeps your transactions forever. |
| Minutes to Keep Unconfirmed Transactions | Unconfirmed transactions are created in the database whenever payment buttons are generated. The application transaction data needs to be stored so that it is available when the customer returns from the payment gateway. The default retention time is 60 minutes, which should be more than enough time to pay and return to your site. However, if a user did manage to complete payment after the unconfirmed transaction record had been deleted, details of the transaction would be lost and the transaction would fail. Please also see the comments in the section Unconfirmed Payments. |
| Anonymise Confirmed Payments After | The number of days before confirmed payments are anonymised. If you set this to zero, payments are never anonymised. Confirmed payments are anonymised by completely removing the payer email, address1, address 2, zip code and IP address, and the payer first name and surname are reduced to a single character. The detailed gateway transaction details and application transaction details are also removed because they can contain personal information. This way you can safely keep your payment data for a long time. |
| Days to Keep System Logs | System logs include error reports and reports of other unusual activity. The default retention time is 365 days. |
| Error Email | Optional: You can specify an email address that will be used to notify you of any anomalies that occur during payment processing. |
| Google Maps Key | Optional: In most cases the Google map on the Sales by Country report page should work without a key, but if not, you can obtain a free key from Google and enter it here. |
| API Key for ipinfodb.com | Optional: If you provide this, Payage will populate the IP address location country for payments where the application does not provide this. You can obtain a free API key from ipinfodb.com. |
Invoice configuration is discussed in the Invoices section.