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title: Settings Overview
description: "SessionQuota Pro organizes its admin interface into five tabs: - General - Advanced - Tools - Monitoring - License This page explains what each tab is for. ## General The `General` tab controls the main session policy for your site.…"
url: "https://handyplugins.co/docs/sessionquota-pro-settings-overview/"
updated: "2026-03-16"
category: SessionQuota Pro
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# Settings Overview

SessionQuota Pro organizes its admin interface into five tabs:

- General
- Advanced
- Tools
- Monitoring
- License

This page explains what each tab is for.

## General

The `General` tab controls the main session policy for your site.

### Main settings

- `Session limit`: the default number of concurrent sessions allowed per user
- `Enforcement mode`: what happens when a user reaches the limit
- `Enable automatic dashboard placement`: automatically adds frontend session controls to supported account areas

### Block mode options

When `Block new login` is selected, you can also enable blocked login recovery by email.

Additional settings include:

- Email cooldown
- Recovery link expiry time

## Advanced

The `Advanced` tab lets you define more specific rules than the global default.

### What you can configure

- Role-based limits
- Membership-based limits
- Limit priority behavior

### Supported membership providers

- MemberPress
- Paid Memberships Pro

### Strict mode behavior

When `Logout all other sessions` is selected, SessionQuota Pro effectively enforces a single active session for everyone. In that mode, advanced policy controls are not used.

## Tools

The `Tools` tab is for operational tasks.

### Available tools

- Force logout a specific user
- Logout all sessions for all users
- Reset plugin settings
- Export settings
- Import settings
- Review common WP-CLI commands

## Monitoring

The `Monitoring` tab is for security visibility and alerting.

### What you can control

- Enable or disable logging
- Log IP addresses
- Log user agents
- Enable country detection
- Set log retention
- Configure blocked-login alerts
- Configure country-change alerts
- Show admin notices
- Send alert emails

## License

The `License` tab is used to manage your product license.

Typical actions include:

- Entering your license key
- Activating the license
- Re-activating when needed
- Reviewing current status messages

## Recommended setup flow

If you are configuring the plugin for the first time, work through the tabs in this order:

1. General
2. Advanced
3. Tools
4. Monitoring
5. License