# WooCommerce Product Settings: Measurements, Display, Inventory, and Downloadable Products > **Source video:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEmwJsE8xDY This video covers the **Products** tab in **WooCommerce → Settings**, which has four sub-menus: **General**, **Display**, **Inventory**, and **Downloadable products**. You'll learn how to set measurement units, configure reviews and ratings, control how products are displayed and sorted on the shop page, manage inventory and stock notifications, and configure file downloads. Navigate to **WooCommerce → Settings → Products** to begin. ## General Settings ### Measurement Section - **Weight unit**: choose the unit for product weight, e.g., kilograms, grams, pounds, and more. - **Dimensions unit**: choose the unit for product dimensions, e.g., centimeters, meters, or yards. ### Reviews Section - Enable **Ratings on reviews** to allow a star rating to be left with a review. Enabling this reveals three more check boxes: - **Require ratings** for a review to be left. - Show **Verified owner** labels for reviews. - Only allow reviews from **Verified owners** of the product — meaning only someone who has actually bought that specific product can review it. Click **Save changes** before moving on. ## Display Settings These settings control how products are shown in your store. - **Shop page**: choose the page your products appear on. This is vital — without it there's nowhere to display products. If you used the onboarding wizard when installing WooCommerce, it most likely created and set this for you. - **Shop page display**: choose to **Show products**, **Show categories**, or **Show categories and products**. - **Default category display**: when a customer views a category page, choose to **Show products**, **Show subcategories**, or **Show subcategories and products**. - **Default product sorting**: choose how products are sorted. Options include: - Default sorting (uses any custom ordering first, then product name) - Popularity - By sales - Average rating - Sort by most recent - Sort by price ascending or descending ### Add to Cart Behavior - **Redirect to the cart page after adding a product**: good for stores with a small catalog — it quickly sends customers to the cart to encourage checkout. - **Enable AJAX on add to cart buttons**: good for stores that want customers to add many products — it adds products to the cart without leaving the shop page, so customers can shop without interruption. ### Product Images This section is very important. You'll want the settings here to match the image sizes your theme uses. Blurry or mis-sized images can be fixed by setting these correctly. - **New image gallery**: if your theme supports it, customers can navigate product images with arrow keys, hover for a zoom effect, open the image in a light box with the magnifying glass, rotate through uploaded images, and make it full screen. It works well on mobile too. - With the new gallery, upload the highest resolution images you can get. For example, a light box on a 15-inch display shows the image at 911 × 9001 pixels using the original upload. Check your analytics for the most common screen resolutions to know what original resolution you need. The three image sizes: - **Catalog image**: the size used on the shop page or any product archive (grid) page. - **Single product image**: shown when viewing a single product. The image you set as the product image when creating/editing a product is used here and as the catalog image. - **Product thumbnails**: the size of the thumbnails beneath the single product image, showing the product gallery uploads. Remember to click **Save changes** before moving on. ## Inventory Settings If you don't track inventory, you can leave these disabled. - **Enable stock management**: allows you to manage stock per product and set quantity levels when creating or editing products. - **Hold stock (minutes)**: how long WooCommerce should hold stock for unpaid orders, set in minutes (the example shows 7 days, or 10,080 minutes). Once the limit is reached, unpaid orders are automatically cancelled. Leave blank to disable. - **Low stock notifications** and **Out of stock notifications**: send email notifications to the recipient address in the field below when products go low or out of stock. - **Low stock threshold** and **Out of stock threshold**: these thresholds trigger the notifications above. - **Hide out of stock products**: choose whether out-of-stock products are shown or hidden in the store. - **Stock display format**: choose one of three options: - Always show the number of items in stock - Only show stock when it's low - Never show stock amount Click **Save changes** before moving on. ## Downloadable Products Settings These settings cover the file download method and access restrictions. ### File Download Method - **Force download**: serves files via PHP and protects against direct linking. However, large files or an underpowered server may cause timeouts. - **X-Accel-Redirect / X-Sendfile**: the most reliable choice. Offers great download performance and protects against customers sharing the download. - **Redirect only**: uses a separate download link that redirects to the actual file. Least secure in terms of users sharing the download link. ### Access Restriction - **Require login**: require users to be logged in to download their purchases. Note this doesn't apply with guest checkout — a guest customer receives a download link in their order email. - **Grant access to downloadable products after payment**: as an order is processing, the customer already has access to their purchased download. Click **Save changes** when done.